Nice two router configuration for home network
Friday, February 26, 2010
I got this from The Linksys Forums
You have one router running in your network. This router connects to the internet. Now you want to hook up a second router (e.g. a wireless router to have wireless access) in your network connecting both with an ethernet cable. The following is in most cases the best approach for home networks. You'll find similar answers with some screenshots in the Linksys Easy Answers, e.g. 4579
The setup:
1. Unplug the second router from anything. Connect a single computer to the router. Do not connect the second router to the first at the moment!
2. Configure the router at http://192.168.1.1/
3. Change the LAN IP address of the second router from 192.168.1.1 to a free address in your LAN (e.g. 192.168.1.2 should be O.K. if the first router is also a Linksys router). The address you change to (192.168.1.2) must not be used by any other device with static IP address in your network nor should be assigned by the DHCP server your network. A default Linksys router uses 192.168.1.1 itself and the DHCP server assigns 192.168.1.100-149.
4. Turn off the DHCP server on the second router.
5. Save the setting.
6. Unplug the computer from the second router.
7. Connect an ethernet cable from a numbered LAN port of the first router to a numbered LAN port of the second router. Do not use the Internet/WAN port on the second router!
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