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two wireless routers?
I am having problems with my wireless internet getting good coverage through the entire house. Due to the placement of furniture and connection points, I have to have the router in one particular room in one corner of the house. In the opposite corner, upstairs, my connection is poor.
I happen to have a second wireless router, and I'd like to set this second one up to cover the upstairs.
The way I'm trying to arrange them, I have the original one downstairs as it is, attached to the cable "modem" box. Both routers are 4-port wired routers as well), and I've taken a line of cat-5 cable (all cables tested to work without problem) and run it upstairs to where the other router is plugged in. When I do that, it seems to not be picking up its IP address from the DHCP server on the first router. I have them both set to different SSID's and passwords (both are WPA-PSK). I can even connect wirelessly to the second router, but the internet connection doesn't come through. I've tried setting it up through the router's home page, the autodetect doesn't detect and setting it to no username/password (the internet connection doesn't require one) doesn't do it either. Again, it doesn't seem to be getting an IP address from the first modem, even though its set to pick one up.
Any ideas of what I'm doing wrong?
Ok, I seem to be getting people telling me "you can't do that"... my question is, why not? I've done it with wired routers before.
My old wired setup had one router next to the dsl "modem". It supplied 3 computers in my upstairs and a line went downstairs to another router which split that connection among 2-3 more computers (yes, I'm a total geek, I have that many).
In this case, the wireless router upstairs doesn't seem to be able to get an internet connection from the downstairs modem.
Both routers are netgear, though different models. Both have 4 standard ports and one designed to connect to the internet. The cable modem is connected through this point downstairs, and the upstairs router connects from here down to the downstairs router like the downstairs router was the cable modem (its what supplies the connection, so it essentially does the same thing, right?
I'm just not understanding why this shouldn't be kosher.
Dimo J, you're almost right...
I am trying world -> cable "modem" -> router 1 (wifi enabled, its own SSID, etc) -> cat 5 cable to router 2, also wifi enabled on a separate SSID.
the cat 5 cable is a regular ethernet cable, a single cable, not joined cables or anything. I crimp my own connectors, but its a tested and fully-functional cable.
4 Answers
- Dimo JLv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
You are trying to:
World --> Modem -- cat5 --> Router1 -- cat5 --> Router2 -- WiFi --> ME!!!
First, this will work just fine!
The modem connects to the WAN jack of router 1.
Router 1 hands out DHCP to it's LAN ports, one of which has a cable going to Router 2
Router 2 has the cable from Router 1 plugged into it's WAN port
Router 2 is set to get an automatic address (DHCP) from it's WAN port.
Router 2 gives out a different set of addresses on it's LAN ports, which includes
it's WiFi Access Point to which you are connected to.
If that is how you are set up, try pulling the WAN cable from Router 2 and plugging into your laptop to see if you have a good connection that far. ( "a line of cat-5 cable" sounds scary, like you have connected multiple cables together.)
Source(s): Telecommunications since 1966 - mike HLv 71 decade ago
the problem with the second router is being able to source an IP address from the first router which i dont think it will be able to do, what you actually need is a wireless access point which will be able to source the ip address and act as a work through for the router connected to the phone line
- cpttango30Lv 51 decade ago
You can't hook two routers like that.
You either need a wireless access point. pointless because you already have a wireless access point in the wifi router. A wireless access point is a point at which to access a wired network threw wireless connectivity. or You are going to need a wifi range extender. Here are some at Tigerdirect.
