Configuring The Bridge With Your NET Module, continued…

So now you have the router ready. You are eager to see your NET online. Take a deep breath, my impatient ones. We will continue as this is a involved process. But I assure you that you will be uber happy once done.

Onward…

The wifi bridge that I used was a D-Link DAP 1522. There are many other game ports (for xbox or ps3), but this one is the best out there right now. It can do multiple things, but I am not spending ample time talking geek with you. So lets set this thing up, shall we?

Note: Make sure you know your wifi password and its encryption type (like WEP) as it will be necessary during the DAP wizard.

1. Unplug the Ethernet cable from your PC, and hook up the DAP directly into that slot.
2. Power the DAP and find your local TCP/IP settings on your computer.
3. Change the settings: IP Address 12.168.0.10, subnet 255.255.255.0, and leave the default gateway blank.
4. Now you shouldn’t have any connectivity to the internet except to your DAP
5. So in your browser, type in the IP address that you set (192.168.0.10)
6. You should be in your DAP software. Run the wizard to setup your bridge. This should be straight forward.
7. Once you have completed this step, the bridge is configured to the wifi network. Note the IP address of the DAP, as you will need it later on.
8. Go back to the TCP/IP settings on your computer, and change them back to ‘Auto Detect’. This is to go back to the original settings of your computer. Also plug the original Ethernet cable back into the computer.
9. Now go to your NET module. Plug an Ethernet cable from the NET to your DAP. By now I hope to God that you know to have the NET bussed into the RKE (so that its online and powered up by the main controls)
10. On your home computer, use the Net Detector application. It will locate your wifi network (it will show you your wifi name). This means that it can communicate with the network. This is good. If you don’t have it, then the bridge was not configured properly during the wizard. Go back.
11. All you have to do now is type in the DAP’s IP address: for me it was 192.168.1.xxx Yours should be similar.
12. The page should greet you with a Digital Aquatics Logo and page. The temporary username and password are ‘DigitalAquatics’ and ‘password’.
13. You are DONE. That is if you do not want to know how to RSS feed it into your RSS reader (like on your iPhone)

If you have ANY questions, you can ask them in the comments section. I will try my best to answer them. Next up will be how to RSS feed your tank’s parameters through your NET wifi. Stay tuned!