Two wireless routers wired together

Paul Zitarelli · 2007-04-18T02:54:09+00:00

Here is my situation:I rent an apartment on the first floor of a house. My landlord has hisoffices upstairs. There, he has a cable modem and a Linksys WRT54GS.That router is then connected into a wall socket using an ethernetcable (I assume the other end is in one of the LAN ports of theWRT54GS).Then, on my floor, I connect my wall socket to my router, a LinksysBEFW11S4 (Version 3). The only way my router works consistently is toconnect the wall socket to the Uplink port of my BEFW11S4. However,it's only wired connections that work; I have never been able to getwireless working. Because of client confidentiality, my landlord doesnot want me to use his wireless connection, so I need some way to getmine working.Several articles explain how to set up my router as an access point. Ihave tried the method described (switching the Device IP address,disabling DHCP, changing SSID and channel), but again, things onlywork using the Uplink port. I can never seem to make a direct LAN-LANconnection (the lights on my router never come on). And I can neverget wireless working.Any thoughts on where the problem might be? Or maybe a way that mylandlord could give me wireless internet access using his WRT54GS thatwould not give me access to computers on his network? I reallyappreciate any help!

Apr 18, 2007 21 Replies

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Forster Tuncurry 19 years ago

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