Can I access a different network through a wireless router?

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A bit difficult to describe but I'll try.

At Hope, the whole college is connected to a big LAN that is then connected to the internet. So I can map drives in other buildings from anywhere on campus. We recently got a wireless router, and I can no longer access the Hope drives through it. Is there any way that I can get back through the wireless router to get to those drives through the Hope network that the router is connected to?
 
Dunno. Who put in the router? Campus IT folks? Where is the router compared to your previous connection?

You don't explain what changed other than there's a wireless router. Is it in the same place? Did you have a wired connection before? What happened to that? Were you wireless before, and they just put in new equipment?

They may have changed it specifically to remove wireless clients from the LAN. It's also possible they missed something in the configuration and you're supposed to still be on the LAN.

As to your general question, if the router's on a differnet network, then no, you can't access the campus LAN. Like I said, they mighta did that on purpose.
 
You may be on a totally different subnet than the rest of the college and therefore you can only access what is on your subnet.

That's just a guess though.
 
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You may be on a totally different subnet than the rest of the college and therefore you can only access what is on your subnet.

That's just a guess though.
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Yes, this is probably it. What you need to do is to disable the routing capabilities of your wireless router. Then plug one of its LAN ports into the campus network (I'm assuming you've got the WAN port connected just now).

Doing this, the router becomes a Wireless Access Point which will allow you to pick up network addresses etc from college systems, not from the router itself, which knows nothing about the college.
 
By "disable the routing capabilities," he means especially to disable the DHCP server. With that done, the 4 LAN ports of the router become a basic switch.
 
Of course this is all assuming Campus IT didn't do this and/or there isn't a password.
 

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