May I use a Linksys WRT54G router as secondary wireless access point?
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Posted by Charles Wahl on January 25, 2006, 10:28 pm
Please log in for more thread options I have a DSL home ethernet LAN using one Linksys WRT54G router with wireless features turned on, but the signal at the far end of the apartment is dodgy for laptop use. I don't want to relocate the main router, but have the opportunity to get a second WRT54G cheap. Can I configure a second one as a slave (access point), and have wireless connection served by either one of the devices? The two routers would not communicate wirelessly, but by CAT5. I realize that I need to turn off the DHCP server function on the "slave," is there anything else I need to do? Should each router be set to use a different wireless channel, or the same one? I assume that it would be okay to connect more devices/computers to the second "slave" router via CAT5 as well; is that true? Thanks very much, -- Charles Wahl <remove uppercase letters in email address>
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Posted by glen herrmannsfeldt on January 25, 2006, 11:25 pm
Please log in for more thread options Charles Wahl wrote: > I have a DSL home ethernet LAN using one Linksys WRT54G router with
> wireless features turned on, but the signal at the far end of the > apartment is dodgy for laptop use. I don't want to relocate the main > router, but have the opportunity to get a second WRT54G cheap. Can I > configure a second one as a slave (access point), and have wireless > connection served by either one of the devices? The two routers would not > communicate wirelessly, but by CAT5. That sounds fine to me. > I realize that I need to turn off the DHCP server function on the "slave,"
> is there anything else I need to do? Should each router be set to use a > different wireless channel, or the same one? Why not use DHCP on the second? It does need to be a different (sub)net, though. I would probably static address the WAN port of the second, but it could even be done through DHCP. > I assume that it would be okay to connect more devices/computers to the
> second "slave" router via CAT5 as well; is that true? Yes, that should work fine. By the way, these are more TCP/IP question and not ethernet questions so should probably go to comp.protocols.tcp-ip -- glen | ||||||||||||||||
