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both wired and wireless routers in series

I have a WAN in a 4 story, house but the wifi signal only reaches one half (the rear end) of the house. The current setup is: telephone plug with ADSL signal on the 3rd floor rear -> cable modem -> SMC wireless router. Since the signal seems unreliable the two uppper (3rd and 4th floor) PCs are hardwired to the router via ethernet. a laptop on the 1st and 2nd floor connects via wifi. The problem is the range is limited and the performance shakey.

can I modify the setup to insert a cheap wired-only router between the modem and the wifi router? If so I would get better wifi signal acrosss floors 2 and 1.

so I would wind up with: telephone plug -> wired-only router (to which the 2 box PCs would connect via ethernet) -> long extension ethernet from 3rd floor to second floor where a wifi router would serve floors

2 and 1?

otherwise how can I do this? give wired service to the upper floor PCs and have a wireless access point lower down.

many thanks

Peter Stock

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peter
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You can do this, just have the wired router handle the DHCP and turn off the DHCP server in the wireless router. The wireless router essentially becomes a switch with an AP. Plug the wired router into a lan port on the wireless router. There are other ways to do it but if you want the same subnet, this will work

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Airhead

What is the difference between connecting the two routers via the LAN

and WAN ports?

I currently have a Dynamode 4 port ADSL modem router, I want to

purchase a wireless 4 port router and connect it to the ADSL router as

I've found these to be better value than basic APs.

Am I right in thinking that if I connect the ADSL modem router to the

WAN (RJ45) port of the wireless router, then I will have to give them

different IP ranges, whereas if I connect them via a LAN port, then

they will remain in the same IP range (obviously with the wireless

router DHCP server turned off or to client).

Cheers Chris

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-=[Subzero]=-

Do you mean range or sub-net group??

Range is the same subnet, but you set them up so they don't issue the same ip address ie: 172.168.1.1 to 172.168.1.100 and 172.168.1.101 to

172.168.1.200

Subnet would be 172.168.1.1 to 172.168.1.100 and 172.168.2.1 to

172.168.2.100 These groups could not talk to each other with out a router between them...

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gene martinez

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