Can anyone help?

My friend and I live oposite each other separated by about 7meters. I have a D-Link G604T wireless DSL router, my friend has a Belkin 54g DSL Router. We each have our own separate networks and internet connections. At the moment the only way I can access files on my friends network is to disconnect from my router, and connect to his.

What I'd like todo is to somehow connect the two routers together (wirelessly), so we can access each others shared files without having to disconnect from our networks all the time. (This also means that if I need to use the internet i'm stuck with using my friends slower internet connection)

How would I go about doing the above? Could it be done without buying a wireless bridge? And does it have anything to do with subnet masks, or any other router settings?

PS. I know that the two routers are directly "aware" of each other as when both are reset to factory defaults. The one switched on first takes the address range 192.168.1.x and the second one started takes the range 192.168.2.x. Is this an example of the routers somehow negotiating with each other?

Cheers - Craig

leave routers ..you need to connect two systems with out buying wireless bridge...
i'm taking this is as consideration... buy wireless usb card (both sides) and connect in Ad-hoc mode you will get better connectivity comfortably ..try yourself .if line of site is problem get usb with extenter...available in market

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Thanks for that, but we have more than one computer on our networks. If I were to connect the two computers together using ad-hoc mode, i'm only really doing the same as what i'm doing now which is connecting to my mates router directly. Also I would only be able to see one computer and not the other machines on the network.

Still thanks for the suggestion though.

All you really have is two access points, which aren't made to talk to each other. My friend and I are in the same boat (except a lot farther away :p)

I believe you do need to purchase a bridge for this situation. One of you needs a bridge connected to the other's network, then plug that into your router/switch. You can setup your network cards then for dual IPs so you can see both networks at the same time without switching, just keep your local as the internet supported one.

I haven't tried this yet but the theory seems sound. It would be nice if I didn't have to setup the cards for dual IPs but I think that's the easiest route without a "real" router.

Hi there, thanks for that. My friend and I had came to the same conclusion about the bridge. However we found a "software solution" that seems to work great.

We did the following;

1. On my friends "main" computer we inserted a cheap 802.11g USB network adapter (about £15) on ebay.
2. Setup one of his adapters to connect to my network, and the second adapter to connect to his network automatically.
3. Using Windows XP (which we are both using) you can select the two connections on his computer and select bridge.

By doing the above we are able to achieve exactly what we were after. I can see his network and all the machines connected to it, and my network and everything connected on mine, without disconnecting from my router. Basically we can see all the computers on both our networks without having to keep disconnecting all the time.

As much as I don't like to admit it Microsoft came out ontop here, though I'm currently looking for a "software bridge type thing" for Linux now.

Thanks for your reply. I hope our solution can help you and your friend