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Posted on 05/15/2006 2:00:35 PM PDT by AJMaXx
I have a wireless router and wired router. The wireless router has a problem with the LAN wired ports, they don't work, but the WAN does. What I would like to do is plug in the wireless router into the wired router, then to the Internet. I have 2 computers that use wired, 2 wireless. I know this can be done, but I don't know the proper settings for the wireless to work through the wired out to the Internet. Right now I do it the old fashioned way, plug in the one I need for the time being, and the other 2 are offline.
Thanks for help in advance. AJMaXx
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Try this:
Modem --> wired router WAN port
Wired router port 4 --> Wireless router WAN port
Do both routers issue IPs on the same segment via DHCP or different segments?
On the wireless router, can you login to the console and change DHCP server settings? If so, you may be in luck.
m_f's advice should work. I had a home LAN with that configuration back when we had more than one computer which wasn't wi-fi capable on the network.
Yes, I have done this, but I need to know what settings to put in the wireless router.
For ex: wired is 192.168.1.1
I know the wireless needs to fall into that range, but what should it be set as? Should it be just default and let it pick it up off the wired? What about gateway and DNS and should DHCP be enabled, or what?
I know how to change the settings, just need examples of how to work off the wired to put into the wireless.
Therein is the problem, they both want to be on this segment and thus won't route elsewhere. (They think they're already there.)
Possible solution:
Get a new wireless router and save yourself potential problems with being double (or triple if your ISP is doing one) NATed.
Theoretically things should'nt notice being behind any number of proxys. But if it took me an hour to make it work I'd be at breakeven. Time spent after that is lost money. That router could wind up costing you almost as much as time spent on FR.
Possible solution:
Plug the good (wired) router into the cable modem (Internet) via the WAN port
Plug the bad (wireless) router into the good router. (bad) router WAN port <--> (good) router's LAN port
Login to console of bad router. Modify configuration for LAN and wireless. Change IPs different segment. Ie: 192.168.2.*
Modify the wireless router to think that it an all it's "customers" are on a different segment (192.168.2) and it should work. Its LAN IP should become 192.168.2.1, its WAN IP will be whatever the wired router say it is.
All the wireless computers will use the wireless router for DNS, so no change there. All the wired computers along with the wireless router will use the wired router for DNS, so no change there.
Thanks to all suggestions. I got it going, now to get the computers on the wired router to be accessed by the ones that are on the wireless for sharing files/gaming.
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