Stupid network question.

[Rancod]

Anyone know if I am just going insane? Trying to hookup a wireless router in the living room to hook back to the wireless in my office (which is the one hooked to the net) This is possible right, and if so, ideas? If not ideas?

Both are belkin routers, one is a fsd7234a and the other is a f5d72314. thanks

Posted Tue May 23, 2006 9:09 pm:

Basically I did the following, I configured the first wireless router for my isp (comcast) and enabled wireless bridging. With this enabled, I set it to connect only to the other router, and no other router, I did the same on the other router. Both have all the correct mac addresses. It is just on the first router, I do not see the other as connected to it, same on router #2. Do both wireless network names have to be the same (They are right now)? I am sure this can work somehow. I also have a wrt54g linksys that I have tried as router #1 with either belkins as router #2, and no luck.


*sigh* I need to re read my networking info.

*slammies head on desk*

[Martin Blank]

Bridging should be configured on the non-ISP router only, as it's the only one acting as a bridge. The bridge should not be using router functionality, as that only complicates things. ESSIDs must be the same, and encryption settings must be the same.

[Rancod]

Thanks Martin, I will give this a shot tonight and update post accordingly. Thanks again.

Posted Thu May 25, 2006 12:43 am:

No dice. It said connected for a seccond, but also asked for the isp's ip, which since it dosent connect directly to it, is odd.

[Martin Blank]

If you can hold off for a couple of days, I may be able to play with some settings at work. Details on types of encryption used, etc, may be useful to me in that context.

[KaymeeraUnleashed]

I'm not sure, but I think you should set the Static IP (WAN settings) on your "second" router to an IP on the "first" router's subnet, and set that router's IP as your gateway...

Eg.
First Router:
WAN:
IP="Your Internet IP address as per your ISP"
Subnet Mask="Your Internet Subnet address as per your ISP"
Gateway=""Your Internet gateway address as per your ISP" (Sometimes 0.0.0.0)
LAN:
IP=10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask=255.0.0.0

Second Router:
WAN:
IP=10.0.0.3
Subnet Mask=255.0.0.0
Gateway=10.0.0.2
LAN:
IP=10.0.0.2
Subnet Mask=255.255.0.0
+DHCP server enabled//static ips//mac addresses etc...

This is what I would try in your situation. What I think it would do is, that if a wireless computer, say laptop, wants data from the internet it would go to it's gateway which is the "second" router, which itself would go to it's own WAN gateway, which is the "first" router, which itself would go to it's own WAN gateway, as set by your ISP to get the data.

This, again I think, would work when hooking up wired routers together, but wireless works the same way I think, provided you have the same wireless settings on both.

I should also point out that I have never actually tried the above, don' know what I'm talking about remotely professionally and I may be absolutely wrong...

[edge]

You shouldn't need to set any WAN settings up on the second router. You're not actually using it to route, you're using it as a bridge. It's more along the lines of connecting two switches together to give your ethernet network more ports. As Martin said, you need bridging enabled on the second router, and you must have the same settings for essid and security. Also, IIRC, you should use different channels to avoid having the two devices interfere with eachother...although, I could be thinking of something else.