Wireless network wth two wireless routers?

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Hi Guys

I have two wireless routers:
1.) NetGear Wireless ADSL Modem
2.) Gigabyte B49something Router

How do I get the two to talk to each other? I basically want to setup the Gigabyte on upstairs connected to a few PCs using normal UTP cables, I then want the Gigabyte router to connect using wireless to the NetGear router so the computers upstairs also have internet access?

Thanks.
 
Thoughts

Howzit

I've not done that before but I'd think the first step would be to set up the Gigabyte one that you want upstairs as an access point.
Set the Netgear one up as a router with ISP details and such.
Put them both on the same subnet and give them static IPs, eg. 192.168.7.1 and 192.168.7.2

Anyway that's how I'd start and see how it goes. There are bound to be far more knowledgable people on here who can tell you a way that'll work for sure but I'd start messing around with them and see what happens.

I guess the other way might be to set them both up as routers, on the same subnet again, and set the Gigabyte one to route WAN stuff to the Netgear router's IP...?

Good luck, let us know how you get on.
 
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You can use WDS.

Basically, this entails configuring each router as the other's peer by configuring the MAC addresses of each router on the other.
 
I'm assuming you don't want to run a wire between the wireless routers?

If that's the case, you'll have to check if the Gigabyte has a setting to set it up as either a bridge/client bridge/repeater/WDS mode. If it doesn't, your only other option would be to run a wire and put the routers on the same subnet ad shane101 mentioned.
 
Sitting with a similar problem.. a TL-WR543G Ap Router which supports WDS. Just haven't figured out how to set it up :(
Trying to set it up with a Mecer wifi ADSL router .. no luck, tho the mecer indicates a wireless connection present if i connect up to the Tplink one, it doesn't allow me off there :-/
 
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Do both devices need to support WDS?? I'm thinking both do.
 
Well i was scouring the net for answers and most examples have both having a WDS/Bridge mode List of mac addresses for the router link up to.

That being said, i did come across a few which said it doesn't matter if the main or wan/adsl one doesn't have it. If this is true and someone knows how to do it, pls tell.. else i just left the one down here next to the ADSL one. The Tp-Link has a great antennae + range extend which seems to be good enough.
 
i have this setup running at home..a quick high level explanation
router 1 permanently connected to internet, wifi set up as normal etc etc

router 2, set to "client bridge" in wireless mode settings..dhcp server etc all turned off.
on router 2 wireless settings, put in the same settings as for router 1, same ssid and wep/wpa key.

router 2 then contacts router 1, logs in via wireless and gets an ip address for itself from router 1, from there onwards it is transparent...anything connecting to router 2 (via wired) gets an ipaddress given to it from router 1, and as far as the device is concerned router 2 doesnt exist.

all works very nicely.

copy/paste from ddwrt help file:
Client Bridged mode – The radio interface is used to connect the LAN side of the router to a remote accesspoint. The LAN and the remote AP will be in the same subnet (This is called a "bridge" between two network segments). The WAN side of the router is unused and can be disabled. Use this mode, e.g., to make the router act as a "WLAN adapter" for a device connected to one of its LAN ethernet ports.
 
what about the ip setting of router2 ?? if i turn off the dhcp etc then what should i set that to? same ip range as the main router? remember doing this config via the lan port to router2
 
krycor said:
what about the ip setting of router2 ?? if i turn off the dhcp etc then what should i set that to? same ip range as the main router? remember doing this config via the lan port to router2
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The answer to your question;):

werner said:
router 2 then contacts router 1, logs in via wireless and gets an ip address for itself from router 1,
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turn off dhcp on router 2..you dont want it giving ip addresses to clients, it acts tranparently via router 1's dhcp server.

router 2 will still get it's own ip address from router 1 via dhcp, you just dont want the dhcp SERVER active on router 2.
 
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