Need help with network setup for rendering

#1

The house I currently live in is an older home, and is not hard-wired. So right now, everything is wireless.

In the family room, there is a wireless modem/router combo.

In my bedroom is my main workstation (connected to the wireless network via a wireless USB adapter), and a secondary machine that I want to use as a render slave.

How can I set up my own little wired network in my room, so that I can use the secondary machine to assist with rendering?

I have a ethernet switch, and a router at my disposal in case I need to use either one.

Any help would be appreciated. I have yet to get this to work. My latest attempt seemed to work using the router, but as soon as the router is turned on, I lose the wireless internet connection. Its seems that the ethernet connection is canceling the wireless connection.

#2

A single cat 5 or better patchcable between your workstation and the renderslave is enough. Give both a unique ip in the same sub et (ie 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2 with a subnetmask of 255.255.255.0) and you can adress the renderslave directly via it’s ip.

#3

That is where my problem is. I do not know how to do that. The render slave is a small machine (no keyboard or monitor), and I would usually connect to it remotely (IPMI), and control it via a console on my main workstation.

The attached rough drawing shows my last attempt at trying to get it to work. I was able to connect to the render slave, but it causes the wireless internet to stop.

And my plan is to use TeamRender (C4D), to render.

Is there an online walk-through that explains how to do this? I think what im wanting to do is create my own private network for rendering in my room.

#4

Run a cable into the bedroom even if it’s just across the floor, buy a $30 switch, and then spend time on other things that matter like producing better work. Yes, you can do this and share the wireless link between the machines but it’s not worth the effort or the strings attached. If you must do it over the wireless lookup Windows ICS (internet connection sharing) which allows you to connect another computer to your computer and they will both go over the wireless. Note if the computer with the wireless is offline the other computer won’t have a network connection.