A quick OCD study shows Caramels, Galaxy and Twix are the rarest!

 

• 18 – Mars
• 18 – Milky Ways
• 15 – Bountys
• 15 – Snickers
• 10 – Maltesers
• 6 – Caramels
• 6 – Galaxy
• 6 – Twix

Best wishes to everyone for 2012.  XXXX

This means that in my office I have one DGND33000 hardwired to my broadband line, and also sending out a wireless signal.

I also am using another DGND33000 in the main house which repeats the wireless signal to the house – providing a signal to laptops and games consoles as well as any smartphone going.

I struggled to get this setup and I think it’s because the MAC Addresses written on my router isn’t the actual MAC address I should’ve been using.

Below I’ve put down my setup so I don’t forget and it may help someone else out too.

How I went about the setup

I plugged my master router directly into my main PC. Following the instruction below I ensured it was working then I booted up my laptop but switched off the Wifi. I plugged my repeating router into that machine and input the initial settings.

I then plugged an ethernet cable from the main router to the secondary router giving me a hardwire connection to the internet just to check it was working.

I used the Netgear “Attached Devices” option to see what was attached, saw it was good, setup the wireless repeating mode, and unplugged. Luckily it worked!

Master Modem Router Setup

From a full reset of the router the IP address is 192.168.0.1.  Netgear username/password are admin/password.  Always change the password!

Once logged into the router I want to manually setup so I go through each page I need to setup.

Make sure you hit “Apply” on each page otherwise you’ll lose your settings

Basic Settings

Note that I’m using OpenDNS servers 208.67.222.222 and 208.67.220.220 as these servers seem to cause me much less problems than my ISP default DNS (AOL).

Once I’ve got my Broadband connected then I’m good to setup my Wireless Settings as below.

Wireless Settings

DGND3300 Wireless Settings

Note that WEP is the only security that can be used for Wireless repeating – yes that sucks – but we can’t change that.

Also I limited the speed to 145Mbps @ 2.4Ghz.  Other posts say we cannot use the dual band to repeat, so I haven’t yet tried it.

Now we need to setup our LAN settings

LAN Setup

DGND3300 Main Router LAN Setup

Note that I keep the main IP address set at 192.168.0.1.

I then set the DHCP range to 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.254.

Last of all we’ll want to setup the Wireless Repeating function for this master router.

Wireless Repeating Function

Main Wireless Repeater Base Station

You’ll need to know the MAC address of your Secondary Router which will act as the Repeater.

Note that this page also gives you the Actual MAC address of this main router/modem.  Write this down!

Setting up the Repeating Router

The basic settings and wireless settings must be the same as above. The difference comes on the LAN setup page.

LAN Setup

Netgear Wireless Repeating Lan Settings

Ensure the Use Router as DHCP is unticked.  The main router will look after assigning IP addresses.

At this stage you may need to log back into the router on the new IP address (192.168.0.5) if this doesn not automatically happen.  It’s also at this stage where I plugged the main router into this secondary router to check that the hardwire internet connection worked.

If all is well we can setup the Wireless Repeating Page.

Wireless Repeating Page

Netgear Secondary Router Wireless Repeating Settings

Not that the Base Station Mac Address is the one we wrote down earlier.  The arrowed MAC Address is the one which should have bee written in the Base Station settings earlier.  Check that it is!

Once we apply, take the connection out between the routers and hey presto… it should be working.  You can check the Attached Devices to see what machines are connected.

Now that our WordPress theme is up and running properly, content should once more be king,  so we’ll now target my home town of Malton, North Yorkshire.

Googling “Malton” on its own brings up many of the local business websites but Solar Polar doesn’t score highly at all and neither it should.  I think by blogging about myself and the town goings on we can start to score in the top 5 pages within the month.

My aim therefore is to blog something everyday, and also fill up my portfolio page with some details to keep scoring high on both counts.

Now it’s  possible  to post from your mobile phone directly to your website.

This actual post comes from my android compress app.

That set me thinking about this website. Over the last month the Solar Polar website has changed and I’ve not really paid attention to any SEO simply because it’s not a priority here. This website is mainly a place for me to make notes and play on the web.

I was however aware that if I Googled my own name, Dave Walker, from google.co.uk, this website appeared on the front page. Now though, the site isn’t even on the first 15 pages (yeah… I checked through 15 pages!)

This is a little experiment to try and resolve it. Content is king when it comes to SEO and the phrase “Dave Walker” has loads of competition because it’s a very common name.

Steps to take

This site uses WordPress and since my change to a new theme and the addition of new plugins my name wasn’t in the header of the front page. I’ve now changed that back.

I’ve also stopped using any SEO plugins for WordPress.

I’ve also filled out a bio page specifically with a page name of dave-walker.

We’ll measure where we are then in 2 weeks on all major search engines and update the blog accordingly.

I setup our new Netgear N300 DGND3300 (bought from Ebay for £40) and after putting in the ip address 192.168.0.1, changing the admin password, and entering my AOL broadband details the wired machines were up and running.

My Ipod was also using the wireless no problem, but we have 2 laptops which connected but no Internet connection.

I tried to PING the actuall ip address of Google.co.uk and it worked so we had a DNS issue.

To get it working I’ve updated the Network adapter TCP/IP settings (V4) so that they use the DNS settings 4.2.2.2 and 4.2.2.3.

Why would it work on wired connections and not on wireless?

Find out more about Sean Dorgan at http://www.seandorgan.com/