hiredgoonz
11-24-2002, 11:36 AM
Just thought I'd share some of my frustration in hooking up my old wired router to my new wireless router.
When configuring them, it is important to leave them disconnected from one another. The "main" router that will be connected to your modem will likely use the IP 192.168.1.1 and can have DHCP enabled.
The "secondary" router, which you will use as basically a switch, will have a different IP, such as 192.168.1.2 and must have DHCP disabled. Once these are configured, while hooked to separate computers and not connected to each other, you can connect the uplink port of the "secondary" router to one of the regular ports of the "main" router.
After configuration, wait a minute or so to connect the two so that their new settings can be accepted by the computers. The status screen of the "main" router should have the ISP info, such as IP, DNS, Gateway.
The "secondary" router will have these WAN settings blank, but show its IP as whatever you set it to.
The reason I went with a wireless router instead of just an access point is that it enabled me to have 6 10/100 ports in addition to the wireless connections. If I went with just an access point, I'd have to use one router port for that, one for a hub or switch, leaving me only two ports.
Since I only had a 10mbps hub and I already had the etherfast router, I figured I'd take advantage of it...and get all my connections up to speed...hope this helps someone...
When configuring them, it is important to leave them disconnected from one another. The "main" router that will be connected to your modem will likely use the IP 192.168.1.1 and can have DHCP enabled.
The "secondary" router, which you will use as basically a switch, will have a different IP, such as 192.168.1.2 and must have DHCP disabled. Once these are configured, while hooked to separate computers and not connected to each other, you can connect the uplink port of the "secondary" router to one of the regular ports of the "main" router.
After configuration, wait a minute or so to connect the two so that their new settings can be accepted by the computers. The status screen of the "main" router should have the ISP info, such as IP, DNS, Gateway.
The "secondary" router will have these WAN settings blank, but show its IP as whatever you set it to.
The reason I went with a wireless router instead of just an access point is that it enabled me to have 6 10/100 ports in addition to the wireless connections. If I went with just an access point, I'd have to use one router port for that, one for a hub or switch, leaving me only two ports.
Since I only had a 10mbps hub and I already had the etherfast router, I figured I'd take advantage of it...and get all my connections up to speed...hope this helps someone...