Connecting Belkin wireless router to existing Linksys 8 port

[DeadSeaSquirrels]

With all the hotdeals it was hard not to snag up a mismatched brand wireless router. Now I am trying to figure out how to hook up my new wireless router to my existing router. I've read a lot of articles, most of which regurgitates what I already know, and I haven't seen one that talks specifically about what I need to do, though I may be able to extrapolate some information if I knew more.

From what I've read this is what I am planning on doing. Connect the wireless router's WAN port to the the wired (main) main router's uplink port via straight through. Set the wireless router to disable DHCP, set the wireless router's WAN IP to some sub-domain of the linksys address (192.168.1.2, etc.).

But upon reflection that just doesn't seem right. How does the laptop (which has both wireless and wired capabilities) know to grab a connection from the wireless router if the DHCP on the wireless router is disabled? I've read some articles that says I should connect a straight-through from one wired port (not the uplink) to one port on the wireless (again not the WAN port), but that doesn't make sense to me.

I need to set it up so that my laptop can grab an IP from either the wireless or the wired (with preference given to the wired router), but I don't see how that is possible without having both DHCP services on. So it sounds like static IP is the way to go, but does that mean everything on my network has to be static IP? Any help or a link to an article would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

 

[JackMDS]

May be this can Help: Using a Wireless Cable/DSL Router as a Switch with an Access Point

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[DeadSeaSquirrels]

Thanks that did help. I successfully setup my wireless router last night, but i didn't really follow the directions from that site (though it gave me some interesting ideas). The article, I belive, noted a couple of things, first that I had to set the wireless router's (secondary router's) IP manually, to a static number within the range of my DHCP settings. I instead just let the DHCP service of my wired (primary router) set the wireless' IP.

Also the article tells make a conection between one of the ports on my primary router to one of the open ports on my wireless router (specifically not the WAN port). But when I did that it didn't work. Perhaps the article meant I was suppose to use a cross-over for that connection. But instead I plugged it into the WAN port of the wireless and everything worked fine.

So right now the wireless WAN IP is 192.168.1.103 (#3 on my linksys 8 port) and the wireless laptop is 192.168.0.2 (#2 on my wireless). Go figure, can somebody explain my confusion? The way I have it setup is how I planned on having it setup but was second guessing after reading those articles.

 

[PowerEngineer]

It happens that I just couldn't resist this Belkin wireless router for $9.99 after rebates from CompUSA last week. I too thought about tying it into my existing SMC router, but decided just remove the SMC instead. After I went through that hassle, I found out that the Belkin has an option in the set-up to convert it into a wireless access point -- which is what I really wanted in the first place! This option wasn't mentioned in the instructions that came with the router (or on the Belkin website). Live and learn...

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: DeadSeaSquirrels
Go figure, can somebody explain my confusion? The way I have it setup is how I planned on having it setup but was second guessing after reading those articles.

Well the instructions on the EZLAN page are for people who want to add Wireless to their current Network.

What you did is what is needed to be done when one would like to have two Independent Networks. You have double Routing first Router creates Network one (192.168.1.xxx) and second Router creates Network two (192.168.2.xxx).

If you are in New York and you are told "Go North to get to Boston" and you decide to "Go South" you might end up in Florida.😉

But who know may be the guy who wrote the EZLAN page is stupid? :shocked: (Nah, he actually has IQ over 130.):thumbsup:

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