How do you chain a wired and a wireless router?

[NikolaeVarius]

I have a very old wired router that has 4 ports and have been suing for 2 systems for some time. I'm getting a PS3, which will be 2 floors below my router. I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router. Is there a way where I can connect my wireless router to my wired router and have it work like that?

 

[drjman]

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only way i can think of doing it. Any other way will be much more expensive.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

So, its impossible to just attach a wireless router to a wired router?

 

[JackMDS]

Few Wireless Routers can be used for this purpose, you have to look if your can be configured in Client Mode.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Few Wireless Routers can be used for this purpose, you have to look if your can be configured in Client Mode.

what are you talking about? I've done this with my shitty linksys, dlink and now my buffalo tech routers.

Just uplink your wired router to your wireless AP.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
what are you talking about?

I think I am talking about Reading Comprehension.

Originally posted by: tenshodo13I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router.

I understand this as wanting to connect the Wireless Router without a wire.

However if the OP wants to connect it with a Wire, ""Just Uplink"" it with a Wire would Not do the Job.

This would.

Wireless Router as an AP - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
what are you talking about?

I think I am talking about Reading Comprehension.

Originally posted by: tenshodo13I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router.

I understand this as wanting to connect the Wireless Router without a wire.

However if the OP wants to connect it with a Wire, ""Just Uplink"" it with a Wire would Not do the Job.

This would.

Wireless Router as an AP - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

I can barely understand what that website is talking about. I mean connecting the wireless router to the wire router so that the wired router is connected to the cable box and the wireless router just uses another port like a computer would.

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: JackMDS

Originally posted by: LuckyTaxi
what are you talking about?

I think I am talking about Reading Comprehension.

Originally posted by: tenshodo13I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router.

I understand this as wanting to connect the Wireless Router without a wire.

However if the OP wants to connect it with a Wire, ""Just Uplink"" it with a Wire would Not do the Job.

This would.

Wireless Router as an AP - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

I can barely understand what that website is talking about. I mean connecting the wireless router to the wire router so that the wired router is connected to the cable box and the wireless router just uses another port like a computer would.

OP doesnt have a cable long enough. looks where he says "i dont have a cable long enough" 😉

 

[JackMDS]

The wireless Router should connect with a short crossover cable to the wired router and be configured the way it describes on the page linked before.

The Game Box needs a GameBox Wireless adapter.

 

[LuckyTaxi]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
The wireless Router should connect with a short crossover cable to the wired router and be configured the way it describes on the page linked before.

The Game Box needs a GameBox Wireless adapter.

Says who? I have a silly linksys router sitting on my desk that's hooked up to one of the ports on my buffalo tech router/ap. works like a charm when i have my desktops into it. lets not make it any harder for the guy shall we.

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I have a very old wired router that has 4 ports and have been suing for 2 systems for some time. I'm getting a PS3, which will be 2 floors below my router. I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router. Is there a way where I can connect my wireless router to my wired router and have it work like that?

If you get the PS3 with built in wifi, which should be any PS3 except the discontinued 20GB version, then you could just replace your wired router with a wireless router.

 

[Peter]

The item you are looking for is called an Access Point. This interfaces a WLAN to an existing (wired) LAN. No WAN routing inside - and that's in fact the point.

Many WAN/LAN/WLAN combo routers can be operated in no-WAN mode, and thus can act as plain access points - and just as many others can't.

 

[NikolaeVarius]

Originally posted by: FishTaco

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I have a very old wired router that has 4 ports and have been suing for 2 systems for some time. I'm getting a PS3, which will be 2 floors below my router. I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router. Is there a way where I can connect my wireless router to my wired router and have it work like that?

If you get the PS3 with built in wifi, which should be any PS3 except the discontinued 20GB version, then you could just replace your wired router with a wireless router.

But, I have 2 other computers that don't have wireless capability and I don't want to install wireless cards.

 

[JackMDS]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

But, I have 2 other computers that don't have wireless capability and I don't want to install wireless cards.

If you are referring to your current computer, they can stay on Wire.

Howvever any otherdevice that suppose to go Wireless need a Wireless card.

Life is Not SciFi movie, you can Not defy the laws of Electronics for personal needs.:shocked:

Wireless needs Wireless source (like Wireless Router, or Access Point ) and Wireless on the receiving side (like Wireless cards, or a second Access Point in Client Mode).

 

[imported_FishTaco]

Originally posted by: tenshodo13

Originally posted by: FishTaco

Originally posted by: tenshodo13
I have a very old wired router that has 4 ports and have been suing for 2 systems for some time. I'm getting a PS3, which will be 2 floors below my router. I don't have a cable long enough to reach, so I want to use a wireless router. Is there a way where I can connect my wireless router to my wired router and have it work like that?

If you get the PS3 with built in wifi, which should be any PS3 except the discontinued 20GB version, then you could just replace your wired router with a wireless router.

But, I have 2 other computers that don't have wireless capability and I don't want to install wireless cards.

As JackMDS stated, the wireless router will also have ports for wired connections. So your 2 current computers will be able to connect to the new wireless router just like they did to the old wired router.

To get the Playstation3 connected just follow these directions:

http://manuals.playstation.net...s/connectwireless.html

All Playstation3's, except for the 20GB model, come with built in wireless.