Hi i know many questions have been asked before about bridging two routers but I still don't have a clue what bridging means and I have actually gotten a setup to work but now it's changed.
I originally lived in a house that had 2 floors plus the basement. The Cable modem was hooked up in the basement and I had a router there and one computer there. Now I also had 2 more computers up on the second floor. As I was a student and lived with 2 other students no one ever thought or worried about drilling holes and so we drilled a few holes and ran a network cable from the basement connected to the router in the basement and up to the second floor. Now I was able to connect easily one of the computers on the second floor. This is simple.. all good.. no worries thus far.. 2 computers hooked up to one router which in turn is hooked up to the cable modem. Where the issue started was when we got a second computer on the second floor and did NOT want to run yet another line down to the basement for logistical reason. I had a second crappy router lying around and so I actually placed that first on the second floor and then hooked both the second floor computers to that and the cable that ran from the basement I plugged that in. It all worked beautifully. I think the second router on the second floor actually had a different subset of IP addresses like 192,168.2.1 (2-50) while the basement one had 192.168.1.1(2-50) set up and naturally it would automatically get an outside IP address from the Cable Modem.
Now my question is if I were to replicate this setup in my new home but replace both wired routers with 2 wireless ones.. would I be able to do the same?
I say this as one wireless router JUST will not reach all the computers... and antennas I have tried do not work. So I am not sure if I am bridging or have to bridge as I don?t understand that whole write-up.. but if I was able to connect to wired routers together... would I not be able to connect 2 wireless as well over a distance without cables? I never had to go into the settings of either of the 2 wired routes and change the router to an access point or whatever folks say.. again I think it is vastly different for wired routers.
Thanks
B
I originally lived in a house that had 2 floors plus the basement. The Cable modem was hooked up in the basement and I had a router there and one computer there. Now I also had 2 more computers up on the second floor. As I was a student and lived with 2 other students no one ever thought or worried about drilling holes and so we drilled a few holes and ran a network cable from the basement connected to the router in the basement and up to the second floor. Now I was able to connect easily one of the computers on the second floor. This is simple.. all good.. no worries thus far.. 2 computers hooked up to one router which in turn is hooked up to the cable modem. Where the issue started was when we got a second computer on the second floor and did NOT want to run yet another line down to the basement for logistical reason. I had a second crappy router lying around and so I actually placed that first on the second floor and then hooked both the second floor computers to that and the cable that ran from the basement I plugged that in. It all worked beautifully. I think the second router on the second floor actually had a different subset of IP addresses like 192,168.2.1 (2-50) while the basement one had 192.168.1.1(2-50) set up and naturally it would automatically get an outside IP address from the Cable Modem.
Now my question is if I were to replicate this setup in my new home but replace both wired routers with 2 wireless ones.. would I be able to do the same?
I say this as one wireless router JUST will not reach all the computers... and antennas I have tried do not work. So I am not sure if I am bridging or have to bridge as I don?t understand that whole write-up.. but if I was able to connect to wired routers together... would I not be able to connect 2 wireless as well over a distance without cables? I never had to go into the settings of either of the 2 wired routes and change the router to an access point or whatever folks say.. again I think it is vastly different for wired routers.
Thanks
B
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