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Daisy Chaining Routers

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I was supposed to be having a LAN tomorrow night, but the guy with the 16 port router is being an ass about it and he isn't coming. We're going to set up a daisy chain of routers, but we need to know how to work it. We have 3 5 port routers. We are going to have about 7-8 people so I was thinking we'd set it up like this. You have one master router, which has the cable internet plugged into it and two other routers plugged into it. Then the two routers plugged into it is where you plug in all the boxes. Is this correct, and what is the latency like with that kind of setup. Thanks for your time.

Kyle
 
um, some can back me up on this, but if the two daisy chained routers are assigning IP's everything will all be messed up, you need to disable the dhcp ON THEM.
 
This is very interesting. Please let us know if it works.

So far Entry Level Routers daisy chains (as a routers) seem to be similar to Pyramids.
 
Wouldn't you just need to add switches instead of daisy chaining routers? Have one router and then switches?
 
Beg or borrow a 5 or 8 port switch or hub. Use 1 router.
Connect a straight cable from one of the regular ports on the router to the uplink port on the switch or hub.
If the switch or hub does not have an uplink port, use a crossover cable.
 
i THINK that if you just connect the routers together on the switch ports and not the WAN port (cable/DSL modem) they should work as a switch. You might have some porpblems with the DHCP stuff, so be sure to disable that. it would be much better to use a couple switches though.
 
Have the master router with a WAN port. Put the internet cable on the WAN port. Then use the uplink on the master router to connect to any port on the second router except WAN and UPLINK. Connect the third Router to the UPLINK of the second router. Turn off DHCP on second and third routers so only the master router will give DHCP addresses. Plug computers in any ports left except WAN and UPLINK. They will all have internet access and will all see each other. The latency will not be any different if you connect the computers on the first second or third router. If its just a LAN then the speed will be lightning fast assuming 100 mbits per second.
 
Originally posted by: rc240sx
Have the master router with a WAN port. Put the internet cable on the WAN port. Then use the uplink on the master router to connect to any port on the second router except WAN and UPLINK. Connect the third Router to the UPLINK of the second router. Turn off DHCP on second and third routers so only the master router will give DHCP addresses. Plug computers in any ports left except WAN and UPLINK. They will all have internet access and will all see each other. The latency will not be any different if you connect the computers on the first second or third router. If its just a LAN then the speed will be lightning fast assuming 100 mbits per second.
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Sweet, thanks for the help. Unfortunately the guy hosting says he doesn't want to do this anymore and is making us all kick in $5 (even though it doesn't cost nearly this much) for him to rent a 15 hub. he's getting like $50. Does that seem a bit extravagent to you?
 
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