Re: wireless router off a normal router
- From: Johannes Kiessling <yoyojon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 00:09:53 +0100
Hello :-)
In message <241120050557399943%nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
nospam <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <1132788388.518007.300390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> <dmj2001@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > i'm living in an apartment that has had dsl for a while. my roommates
> > use a normal router off the dsl hookup that gives internet access to
> > all three of us in our individual rooms. i want to have wireless in the
> > apartment but they don't want to give up their non-wireless
> > connections, so i thought i could just buy a wireless router, attach it
> > to the ethernet cord coming off the central router, and then it would
> > provide wireless to the apartment without affecting the previous setup
> > for my roommates.
> >
> > i tried it today and it hasn't been working. i had the wireless router
> > on the exact same settings as the computer i was using beforehand
> > (dhcp, 192.168.1.whatever ip address, 255.255.255.0 subnet mask, etc.).
> > my question is, what settings do i need to put my second router on so
> > that it will work? in case any of it is relevant, the wireless router
> > i'm trying to install is a linksys wireless g and the computer i'm
> > currently using is an old mac desktop (g3). i'll be using an almost as
> > old inspiron 4000 when i get my wireless working.
>
> to hang the wireless router off the main router:
>
> set the local ip address of the wireless router to use an unused ip on
> your lan (i.e. 192.168.1.222). be SURE this is outside any dhcp range
> that the main router uses (you don't want a conflict) and that it is on
> the same subnet as your current lan.
>
> turn OFF dhcp on the wireless router (you do not want more than one
> dhcp server on the same lan).
>
> connect a lan port of the main router to a lan port of the wireless
> router. you might need a crossover cable (many routers autosense, and
> i'm not sure which cable type is needed on the ones that do not). do
> not connect anything to the wan port of the wireless router.
I had just benn told by comp.sys.mac.portables that this group exists.
(They had kindly provided me with most of the answer) and I subscribed
to this group with 25 past entries.
And indeed this was the last one of these - which had exactly my
problem in it (I have DLink and wireless Netgear).
I did exactly as you said above and - bingo - everything works fine :-)
My Power Book, my SA-Risc PC and my winxp all talk to each other and
share the internet :-)
Thanks a lot for this very sound advice!!!
>
> alternately, you could copy the settings of the main router into the
> wireless router and then just replace the main router with the wireless
> one.
Best regards,
Yo
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