Home Network Diagram (will this work?)

[IceBergSLiM]

Question is will the configuration for the Far end of the house work as designed? I want to buy the second netgear wireless router but want to ensure this is possible first.

 

[seepy83]

It should work fine. Turn off the DHCP server on the 2nd router.

Edit: also, make sure you connect the 2nd router to the first one using one of the LAN ports, not the WAN port.

 

[JackMDS]

Second Router should be configured like this, http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html


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[Binky]

The "hub" should be a switch, although I'm sure thats what you meant since regular hubs really arent sold anymore.

 

[IceBergSLiM]

Great! Thanks!

 

[morkman100]

And give your 2 wifi routers different SSIDs... helps with troubleshooting.

 

[seepy83]

And give your 2 wifi routers different SSIDs... helps with troubleshooting.

Same SSID and different channels would be my recommendation.

 

[kevnich2]

Same SSID and different channels would be my recommendation.

I second that as well. Same SSID, different channels. Seamless transition between them.

 

[Emulex]

yeah i have 4 with 6 ssids (two are dual band).

i've got so much wifi bandwidth from security going on that i just use the 2.4 for that. the neighborhood has so many wifi's it gets annoying.

but you can assign 4 ssid per band on the dd-wrt so i have 24 SSID's to screw with the neighbors a..x

 

[Loop2kil]

...... 24 SSID's to screw with the neighbors a..x

That actually sounds like fun, might have to give it a try