Hi i need a little help here. My modem is downstairs and i have a wired
router which is feeding 2 computers downstairs, and 1 upstairs (via my
wireless router). I have connected the wired router directly into my
wireless router upstairs. All the computers using wires is working fine,
but i cannot seem to get the wireless connection to work.
Any ideas how i can get this to work? I am a bit of a newb so please be
gentle!! Cheers
Kheldar
Newbie
Posts: 2 Registered: 21/10/06 Status: Offline
posted on 22/10/06 at 01:38
Hi!
I had a similar setup, which needed a little bit of fiddling in the
wireless router setup.
Firstly - is there a reason you need both routers? If not, ditch the wired
one and just use the wireless one.
If you do need both, you need both to be on the same network, therefore you
need to connect (wired) to the wireless router and ensure that it is on the
same network as the wired one. So for example you have the wired router as
192.168.1.1 and the wireless one may currently be 192.168.123.1 so you
change the wireless router lan configuration so it is 192.168.1.2 (and
therefore on the same network as the wired router). You also need to switch
off the DHCP server on the wireless router or you'll have two DHCP servers
on the same network and they won't like that.
Finally, you can't connect the wireless router via it's WAN port (i.e. the
one you'd connect to a cablemodem etc.) as it will want to treat the
network it's connected to from that port as the internet and your
wireless machine wouldn't be able to access the rest of the network
properly. You therefore have to connect one of the LAN ports on the wired
router with one of the LAN ports on the wired machine. Unless your router
is very clever, you'll need a crossover LAN cable for that. (The sort you'd
use for connecting two computers together without a switch/hub)
I've used that configuration for a while and it works fine. It also gave me
a few extra lan ports on the wireless router.
