BarkingGhostar
Diamond Member
Initial setup:
Motorola cablemodem terminating in basement wiring closet. From here, Linksys WRT54G2 router operating in gateway mode. Local IP is default at 192.168.1.1 and the DHCP server is running on the 192.68.1.x subnet. I cannot alter the .1. as it is hard coded.
The public IP address, subnet, and gateway IP are set by the cablemodem. From the Linksys WRT54G2 gateway router the LAN ports provide network branching through the home (basement, 1st and 2nd floors). Wireless reception anywhere but the basement is poor--non-existent when running wireless security (WPA2 Personal).
I have Ethernet switches on each floor to provide tributary networking. I would like to add an Ethernet device to create wireless hotspots on the 1st and 2nd floors. I purchased a couple of WRT45GL's, which are a reissue of the original WRT54G product using the Broadcom chipset running Linux.
Playing around and not knowing what I was doing I could not simply swap out one of the Ethernet switches upstairs with a WRT54GL. I tried changing the 1st floor router's local IP to 192.168.1.2, but left DHCP as-is (running using the same IP range). I cannot alter the 192.168.1.x of either router.
Has anyone managed to get CableModem<-->WRT54G(alpha)<->Ethernet Switch<->WRT54g(beta) working? Any help would be appreciated.
If I cannot get this to work in this nature the only other thing I can think of is taking one of the WRT54GL's, flash it with Tomato, and dramatically increase the wireless transmitter power to see if I can get wireless networking upstairs. This would be swapping out the 54G2 for the 54GL.
Motorola cablemodem terminating in basement wiring closet. From here, Linksys WRT54G2 router operating in gateway mode. Local IP is default at 192.168.1.1 and the DHCP server is running on the 192.68.1.x subnet. I cannot alter the .1. as it is hard coded.
The public IP address, subnet, and gateway IP are set by the cablemodem. From the Linksys WRT54G2 gateway router the LAN ports provide network branching through the home (basement, 1st and 2nd floors). Wireless reception anywhere but the basement is poor--non-existent when running wireless security (WPA2 Personal).
I have Ethernet switches on each floor to provide tributary networking. I would like to add an Ethernet device to create wireless hotspots on the 1st and 2nd floors. I purchased a couple of WRT45GL's, which are a reissue of the original WRT54G product using the Broadcom chipset running Linux.
Playing around and not knowing what I was doing I could not simply swap out one of the Ethernet switches upstairs with a WRT54GL. I tried changing the 1st floor router's local IP to 192.168.1.2, but left DHCP as-is (running using the same IP range). I cannot alter the 192.168.1.x of either router.
Has anyone managed to get CableModem<-->WRT54G(alpha)<->Ethernet Switch<->WRT54g(beta) working? Any help would be appreciated.
If I cannot get this to work in this nature the only other thing I can think of is taking one of the WRT54GL's, flash it with Tomato, and dramatically increase the wireless transmitter power to see if I can get wireless networking upstairs. This would be swapping out the 54G2 for the 54GL.
