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2 Routers home networking question

nboy22

nboy22

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I have 2 routers, one a 2wire and one a netgear, both are wireless.

My setup has 2 rooms. In the first room, there is a cable modem and a 2wire router hooked up to one desktop via ethernet.

In the 2nd room, one desktop computer receives the wireless signal from the 2wire router. This desktop then uses internet connection sharing to share the internet out of the ethernet port on the back of the desktop tower. The ethernet cord runs to a netgear wireless router, which I am not using the wireless on at all, just using it as a wired router. From this netgear router, I have one other desktop computer and one xbox 360 that are able to connect to the internet with no problems.

My problem lies in the 2nd room. The desktop that is sharing the wireless connection over the ethernet is not able to communicate in a home network with the xbox 360 or the other desktop computer because those devices are connected together via a separate router.

So my question is: Is there any way for 2 computers/devices on one router to communicate with 2 other computers/devices on a separate router? I'm looking for a home network type solution, one that allows me to share files between all devices.
 
Sure - disable DHCP on one of your router's, then put it's IP address in the same subnet as the other router but with a different IP address. Then whatever needs to use that router for internet, manually assign that router's IP address as the gateway address on that particular PC. This will allow you to utilize both router's in your network while still allowing file sharing since they'll be on the same subnet.

Another option is to change the DHCP range and make sure both router's dhcp range is different. Say one router has an IP of 192.168.1.1 and has a DHCP range of 192.168.1.100-149 and the other router has an IP of 192.168.1.2 and a DHCP range of 192.168.1.150-199. Different computers will get their assigned IP's from whatever router gives it but it wouldn't cause any IP conflicts and it's all still in the same subnet.
 
kevnich2 said:
Sure - disable DHCP on one of your router's, then put it's IP address in the same subnet as the other router but with a different IP address. Then whatever needs to use that router for internet, manually assign that router's IP address as the gateway address on that particular PC. This will allow you to utilize both router's in your network while still allowing file sharing since they'll be on the same subnet.

Another option is to change the DHCP range and make sure both router's dhcp range is different. Say one router has an IP of 192.168.1.1 and has a DHCP range of 192.168.1.100-149 and the other router has an IP of 192.168.1.2 and a DHCP range of 192.168.1.150-199. Different computers will get their assigned IP's from whatever router gives it but it wouldn't cause any IP conflicts and it's all still in the same subnet.
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Cool, makes sense. I'll have to try that out possibly tonight and see if I can get it working well. Thanks for your help 🙂
 
disable dhcp on the netgear router, and connect it to the ICS pc on a lan port, not the wan port.
 
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