both wired and wireless routers in series

19 Dec 2004 8:23 PM

peter

I have a WAN in a 4 story, house but the wifi signal only reaches one
half (the rear end) of the house. The current setup is: telephone
plug with ADSL signal on the 3rd floor rear -> cable modem -> SMC
wireless router. Since the signal seems unreliable the two uppper (3rd
and 4th floor) PCs are hardwired to the router via ethernet. a laptop
on the 1st and 2nd floor connects via wifi. The problem is the range
is limited and the performance shakey.

can I modify the setup to insert a cheap wired-only router between the
modem and the wifi router? If so I would get better wifi signal
acrosss floors 2 and 1.

so I would wind up with: telephone plug -> wired-only router (to which
the 2 box PCs would connect via ethernet) -> long extension ethernet
from 3rd floor to second floor where a wifi router would serve floors
2 and 1?

otherwise how can I do this? give wired service to the upper floor PCs
and have a wireless access point lower down.

many thanks

Peter Stock

19 Dec 2004 9:12 PM

Airhead

You can do this, just have the wired router handle the DHCP and turn
off the DHCP server in the wireless router. The wireless router
essentially becomes a switch with an AP. Plug the wired router into a
lan port on the wireless router. There are other ways to do it but if
you want the same subnet, this will work

6 Mar 2005 12:08 AM

-=[Subzero]=-

What is the difference between connecting the two routers via the LAN and WAN ports? I currently have a Dynamode 4 port ADSL modem router, I want to purchase a wireless 4 port router and connect it to the ADSL router as I've found these to be better value than basic APs. Am I right in thinking that if I connect the ADSL modem router to the WAN (RJ45) port of the wireless router, then I will have to give them different IP ranges, whereas if I connect them via a LAN port, then they will remain in the same IP range (obviously with the wireless router DHCP server turned off or to client). Cheers Chris -- -=[Subzero]=- brought to you by http://www.wifi-forum.com/

7 Mar 2005 12:35 PM

gene martinez

-=[Subzero]=- <Subzero-.1lg3ya@WiFi-Forum_dot_com> wrote:

>
>What is the difference between connecting the two routers via the LAN
>and WAN ports?
>
>I currently have a Dynamode 4 port ADSL modem router, I want to
>purchase a wireless 4 port router and connect it to the ADSL router as
>I've found these to be better value than basic APs.
>

Do you mean range or sub-net group??

Range is the same subnet, but you set them up so they don't issue the
same ip address ie: 172.168.1.1 to 172.168.1.100 and 172.168.1.101 to
172.168.1.200

Subnet would be 172.168.1.1 to 172.168.1.100 and 172.168.2.1 to
172.168.2.100
These groups could not talk to each other with out a router between
them...

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>Am I right in thinking that if I connect the ADSL modem router to the
>WAN (RJ45) port of the wireless router, then I will have to give them
>different IP ranges, whereas if I connect them via a LAN port, then
>they will remain in the same IP range (obviously with the wireless
>router DHCP server turned off or to client).
>
>Cheers Chris
>
>
>--
>-=[Subzero]=-
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