I am having issues figuring out the correct way to set everything up with regards to gateways and which items to set as an actual access point vs. a router. Given the physical layout of our house, here is physical setup of our network.
In trying to set this up, Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 have issues seeing material on Desktop; if Laptop 1 and/or Laptop 2 are connected to 198.168.0.2 instead of 192.168.0.3, there are no issue. I'm confident that I have messed up some routing configuration vs. settings items to only access points. Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 also have issues accessing the network printer. The entire network is a combination of static IPs and DHCP (anything >= ..*.100 is DHCP); I have the DHCP server enabled on 192.168.0.2 only. Moreover, SSIDs are the same for both TP-Link devices, and passwords are the same.
My questions:
- For each of the devices, which should be set to Access Point only? I.e. which should have the switch feature turned off?
- Does having the network printer plugged into the modem, cause the issue where Laptop 1 and Laptop 2 cannot see it?
Thanks.