I have a BEFW11S4 and a WRT54G. I have connected the wrt54 to the original bef11 in gateway mode with dhcp diabled, so my wired equipment is working ok. How should I setup the wireless? Two different SSIDs? can I use a single SSID but still set up the WRT54G in G only, so I have acces to both speeds?

hi there

my first question is why you want to connect two routers with each other? & if you are connecting also you have to make both of them hard-wired because two routers cannot communicate with each other wirelessly....
may i know what is the distance between the first router befw11s4 and your computer.....if its is quite far away ---i mean it is around 100 to 120 ft... then you can have an access point rather having an router wrt54g for it....& make the connection wireless....with it. the wireless router will communicate with wireless access point wirelessly in repeater mode...

-SAM

I know it sounds weird, and this is a temporary setup while I can get an access point, but the question will still remain on the wi-fi setup combining 802.11b and g. The main router is b, and the additional router/access point is g. My goal is to setup an extended hotspot but I-m not sure if it will be possible to roam from the g to the b areas without losing connection.

Also the reason of this sub optimal setup is currently due to economic reasons , hopefully in the near future I can get my hands on a main g router and an additional g acces point, which seems to be the ideal setup.

well,
my friend

first of all i will like to tell you that wireless-b works with wireless-g network...
not a problem for that...
and yeh if you if really want to setup two routers not a problem you make a wired connection between them...

settings will be:

connect modem with befw11s4 & then connect befw11s4 with a wire to the internet or the WAN port of the wrt54g...& set the local ip address of the router to 192.168.2.1....in wrt54g

& yeh if u want to make wireless connection from wrt54g and beyond just keep the ssid to linksys & channel to 11 or1...
your wrt54g will talk to your wireless card wirelessly...but of course the ssid & channel will be the same for the wireless card also...

-SAM

Exactly! Just did and worked great. Still not sure about the roaming because the areas are overlapped, but any way, both b and g cards are connecting w/o problems, Thanks!!

my pleasure......

for any help in future regarding any of the wireless networking.....just let me know,i will there for your help....

-SAM

wanstiller,
Very sorry to hijack your thread, I have a similar problem and am excited to see someone who might be able to help.

I currently have four puters at my house all connected to each other and the internet throu a Netwave Blitz 802.11b 4 port wireless router.
I want to add one more puter at my house to be able to connect to the internet and two more puters at my neighbors houses for file and print sharing.

I have purchased a dlink 802.11b 4 port wireless router (closeout sale - 30 bucks) because I thought I had read on the package when I bought the first router "expand your network by adding additional routers" my memory of it was that it was supposed to be easy.

I have spent the last three weeks googling and pulling my hair out.

Can any tell me if I should be able to modify the info given to wanstiller and apply it to my situation? If so any further advice on settings would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,
toastermaker

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hi there

my first question is why you want to connect two routers with each other? & if you are connecting also you have to make both of them hard-wired because two routers cannot communicate with each other wirelessly....
may i know what is the distance between the first router befw11s4 and your computer.....if its is quite far away ---i mean it is around 100 to 120 ft... then you can have an access point rather having an router wrt54g for it....& make the connection wireless....with it. the wireless router will communicate with wireless access point wirelessly in repeater mode...

-SAM

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