I live in a small apartment building, and each room has a LAN port. For wireless access, I connected an iptime router to the port. Right now, it's configured with DHCP. Apparently, the LAN port in my room is actually connected to the building owner's router, so I can access 192.168.1.1 (my router) and 192.168.0.1 (the default gateway, which when accessed, gives me my landlord's router)/
This works sometimes -- but most of the time, it requires several restarts to get it right. (The router usually gets it right once I plug the laptop directly into the LAN port in the room just to check the internet, and then I reconnect the router to the port and the laptop to the router.) My guess is that some IP conflict is occurring because of the double DHCP.
So I decided to see if I can make it work as an access point. Here's what I did:
- change the IP address of the router to 192.168.0.201
- disabled DHCP
- turned on AP mode (apparently, this turns off NAT), and placed LAN IP as 192.168.0.1 and the DNS I got from directly connecting my laptop to the port.
With this, my laptop, when wired, can connect to the internet, but my phone can't. Most instructions for setting up access points require that the SSID/password are the same for both main router and access point, but this is impossible in my case.
Is there any other way I can connect seamlessly to the internet? If double SSID/password isn't possible, what can I do to make double DHCP avoid conflicts?