I hate home wireless networking.

[tehjaybo]

If any of you are better with wireless networks, can you help me out here?  I'm at a loss.  I'm terrible at wireless crap. 

Okay, so this is how it's currently set up.  The internet comes in through the modem, into a 8-port 10/100 switch.  From there it goes to everything else, right?  But.  The switch is full, and I need a wireless router set up on the connection. The issue here is, I need to be able to access everything on the wired 8-port switch from the wireless/4-port router.  I know that there is a way, but I don't know exactly how. 

Is it something to do with forwarding the IP addresses from the router to the router in the modem somehow?     I know that the modem has an internal router that can be really annoying, but I don't know too much about configuring it. 

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[MODEM]
        \
         \
     [----SWITCH----]    --- 4 ports going to another room
    /        |        \
   /         [COMP1]   [PRINTER]
[WIRELESS]
|
[COMP2] 

What I need to happen is:
-Be able to hit files from COMP1 from COMP2
-Be able to print from both COMP1 and COMP2
-Have incoming Wireless connections able to access the printer

Any ideas? 

For reference, the hardware is
D-Link DI-624 Wireless Router
SpeedStream 4200-Series Modem

[tehjaybo]

I'm trying this, but it seems like every time I turn off DHCP on the wireless router, it flips shit.  I end up not being able to access it until I hard reset it. 

The modem assigns itself as 192.168.254.254, and the DHCP range is 192.168.254.1-100.  I'm trying to set the LAN IP of the router to 192.168.254.200, but it's not having it. 

EDIT:  Wait...  WAIT.  I think it may have just un-fucked itself.  Give me a minute.

[GoofyGoober]

The router could be acting as a firewall too. It does need to be setup in bridge or Wireless access point mode. that will force the wireless router to basically act as a bridge and the modem will be the device handling DHCP. It looks like that modem does handle DHCP. Some wbesite has it reporting the ip range as 192.168.254.254, like you stated.

[tehjaybo]

Thank you, distinguished gentlemen.  It is now (as far as my tests have shown) working. 

Like I said, I know next to nothing about home networking.  I kept trying to look up what to do, but I didn't really know how to phrase it so I kept getting unrelated garbage. 

[Ganhyun]

missed this thread earlier but glad you got it sorted out.