How to set up 2 routers?

Question

In My Basement I have a Modem and Router. I also have two routers. In my room I have a xbox 360 and a Ps3 and a Laptop. Someone once told me that I can use my basement router as a master router and the other router set up upstairs as a secondary router and have it get connectiion from the other router. How can i do this?

Answer 1

Well essentially what you could do is that when you set up the first router as the primary. You will have to get the other router to join the wireless network as the wireless client. Do not boost the range of the network because that may just end up causing issues. Interference from cordless phones and other wireless networks tend to be the main cause of interference. So basically YES. Now as far on how to do it, well that all depends on who makes your router. I would just contact the manufacture of the router and ask Tech support on how to set it up.

Answer 2

Yes you can just connect them however, having two DHCP servers on your network can sometimes cause problems. Especially if you're streaming music from other computers to your PS3 or running any types of servers.

In order to do that properly all you have to do is disable the DHCP server on the slave router, set the slave router's IP address to something outside of the DHCP range of the master router (so that you can still connect to it and configure it), and plug it into the master router.

You can also turn some routers into a wireless bridge that connects to a wireless network and bridges that connection to the wired ports on the router.  

Answer 3

1: Connect your "secondary" router to your computer and change the configuration a little to avoid IP address conflicts and the like.

     a. Give the router a "WAN" ip address in the same subnet as the master router's LAN IP address range. For example, make the secondary router 192.168.1.2 where the master router is 192.168.1.1

     b: Disable the DHCP server on the secondary router.

2: Using an Ethernet cable, connect one of the LAN ports on the "master" router to the WAN port of the other router.

Your network will be as follows:

Computers connecting to the master router will be on the 192.168.1.0/24 network.

Computers connecting to the secondary router will be on the 192.168.2.0/24 network.

Just using two routers, you *shouldn't* need to set up static routing or a routing protocol. If you chained more routers on like this (there's no limit to this kind of situation, it's how the internet works, a web our routers) you would probably need to enable RIP on the routers, or set up static routes so the routers know how to route packets to the deep internal networks.

EDIT: If you have to set up port forwarding to devices on the 192.168.2.0/24 network, you may need to forward the port to 192.168.1.2 (in the example) on your master router, and then to the actual device IP address on the secondary router.

This is because you cannot enter off-subnet IP addresses in the port forwarding screen in your router config page.

Answer 4

You just connect them... I mean take a cable from the router #1 and just plug that in the router #2. You don't have to do anything. I use a D-Link router in my room as a main distribution system for the upper floor of the house and then in the basement I have a Linksys router. I just plugged in and see what happen one day at it is working for 3 YEARS without any problem what so ever.

Oh ya... I have a PS 3 and I love it. In total we run 3 computer on the main floor and two computers and a master server with web inference on basement. Main internet connection is connected to the main floor D-link router.