Hi Mary,
  Bob R makes a good suggestion. You can get a separate router cheap, under $100, and allow that to do DHCP for your wireless. It can handle up to 250 users. Be careful the model you  choose as some are limited to a small amount like 30. I use a Linksys for this and it works great. I even have that using a separate DSL line so the wireless users are not even on the same network as the pcs.
  If you need help on this let me know and I can stop by.

Don Marsala
Network Administrator
Stratford Library
203-381-2069

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Rasmussen" <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask]
Sent: Tuesday, February 9, 2010 2:12:39 PM
Subject: Re: [LIBNT-L] Question re: wireless

On Tue, 9 Feb 2010, Mary Rogers wrote:

> To all that have given suggestions, I will try them and see if they work.
> Let me give you a little history on this.  I walked into this job about 7
> years ago and the network was already in place.  All of our hard-wired
> computers use static ip addy's and there was no real thought when computers
> were deployed as to what ip to give them.  Because of that, when we went to
> implement wireless using DHCP, the network guy could only find 12 contiguous
> ip addy's to use -- hence only 12 "slots".  If I had it to do over again ---
> I'd certainly have a higher number!
>
> Thanks again to all that have given advice :-)

More advice, then :-)

You can add a wireless router that occupies only ONE IP address on the
original router, and then performs NAT for all its wireless connections,
of which it can have many.

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