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expanding my wireless lan coverage

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urameatball

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I have a linksys wireless lan connected directly to my cable modem and it works fine.
But I have a big place and I plan on adding another wireless router thingy to the other end of my building to increase my coverage.

I tried connecting another wireless router using a cat5 cable to my linksys but it doesn't seem to work.

can anyone guide me in the right direction?

Thanks!
 
Are you plugging into the WAN port because that won't work. Also is DHCP turned off on the 2nd router? because it needs to be.
 
Try using a crossover cable instead. I have mine hooked up DSL Modem -> wired router -> uplink port of wired 8 port switch -> crossover cable to wireless router/switch and disabled the router part on the wireless. Any wireless devices I have obtains their IP address from the original router. You could do the same thing from one router to the other. Make sure you disable the routing on the 2nd one.
 
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