Building a home network

[j34h]

Hi,

I'm going to build my own network next week. My router is going to be the Buffalo WHR-G300N. The idea is to get my router to have one wired computer and three to four wireless attached to it. The computers need to have their own LAN too (192x168.x.x). Every computer would share the same IP to the internet, since my ISP only provides one dynamic.

Got a couple of questions to clarify some issues. Should I put my DSL on to bridged mode without DHCP/NAT-mode plugged to the routers WAN-port, correct? And for the router: should it's wireless operation mode set to AP or router? and lastly the WAN operation mode: the option would be Automatic - DHCP or disabled?

Please correct if I planned it right or wrong. Thanks in advance.

EDIT:
Well it works now, just needed to juggle between different settings.

 

[DaveMcLain]

I believe that how your DSL modem is configured depends upon you particular ISP. At my house I have a PPPoE connection over DSL so the router is configured to establish that type of connection. A few friends and relatives have DSL connections whereby the DSL modem works as a bridge and their router ges an IP address automatically through it for it's WAN connection and there is no authentication. I've had to reconfigure a DSL modem before to make it so that it didn't do NAT and functioned only as a bridge which is what they are anyway, they are not really a "modem". This is no big deal but you need to figure out what works for your particular ISP when using a router to share the connection among multiple machines.