Hello! In my apartment i have internet service via LAN cable and i connect using username and password given by my provider. Could i access to the internet from different location (my house) using the same login data (not both places at the same time, of course)? I was planing to do this with external AP TP-Link WA 7510n on 5 Ghz (same frequency as WISP). How to configure it?
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Geoff
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We need some more information. It sounds like you want to use the internet from your apartment at your house at a different physical location? How far apart are the two locations?
You wouldn't want to use a 5GHz AP between the two though, tell us the distance and what is between the two locations and we can see what equipment you need.
You wouldn't want to use a 5GHz AP between the two though, tell us the distance and what is between the two locations and we can see what equipment you need.
Obviously, I wasn't clear enough. I thought, you might misunderstand me, but johnb35 realized, what I want to do and here it is: my house and apartment are in two different towns and in both of them there is a wifi signal of my provider. In apartment was built cable installation, that I am using now and I don't need any equipment. In my house that's not the case, so I would use wireless approach. In one word, it is one system in two towns. My plan was, when I am in house, to use wireless access and when I am in apartment, to use LAN cable line, but with the same username and password. One of the officers of my provider, told me that is possible, but not at same time. I don't want to pay twice for same service, because half of my time I spend in my house and the other half, I'm in my apartment. WRXGuy1 and johnb35, thanks for help, but after johnb35's answer, I realize that's not possible.
Geoff
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So if I now understand you correctly, there is a WISP that serves the two towns of both your apartment and house. However, you currently use cable internet at your apartment and connect via an ethernet cable, is this correct? You want to only pay for one internet service, which I believe is your WISP, and simply log in at either location when you are there without paying twice.
I don't see why this isn't possible, unless you are looking for a way to get the signal from your WISP inside your apartment building.
I don't see why this isn't possible, unless you are looking for a way to get the signal from your WISP inside your apartment building.
Yes, that's right!
No, I don't want to do that. It is not realistic and it is very long distance, from house to my apartment. Thats why I bought external AP:
http://www.tp-link.us/products/details/?categoryid=1246&model=TL-WA7510N
I'm in my apartment now and i was trying for couple of days to connect to AP of my WISP using this device, from my balcony. I get the signal, configure device as "AP Client Router(WISP)", then i go "Next" and choose "PPoE". When I get blank fields "username" and "password", I fill them with my informations and everything goes good, but no internet. It keeps trying to connect, but nothing. "Connecting..." and that's all.
Geoff
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Ah, so the AP itself has the username and password? Is the one at your house on when trying to use the one at the apartment? Can you turn your house AP off and then try again at your apartment? It might be that only one can have a connection at any given time.
I don't need internet at two places, at the same time. It's not the problem. LAN cable internet is off, while I'm trying to establish wireless connection. I'll have to accept it's imposible, like johnb35 said. It can't work that way.
Geoff
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I know that, but from what I can gather you need to enter a username and password on the router for PPPoE. So if the router is already on at your house, even if there is no client connected, that's probably why it isn't working.
Turn off the AP at home first, since it's not needed, then try again. No offense to John, but it sounds like he didn't fully understand what you were saying either, as your first post was missing a lot of information.
It was already off at the first time I was trying to acces the internet. It seems like that was not problem. I think that maybe something is missing in configuration of device. I'm not that much into wifi and I don't know what could miss. Perhaps, something about IPs, realy have no idea.
Yes, that was my fault. I hope now I gave missing informations.
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