Question about a router.

[Tobolo]

My whole house it wired and I have two new devices that are wireless. How hard would it be to get a Wireless router and then connect the wired router two it so I am using both?

 

[Matthias99]

In general, adding a WAP to a wired network is easy. Just plug in the router/WAP, disable its internal DHCP server (and tell it to use DHCP to get its own IP address), and plug its 'uplink' port into a downstream port on your wired router. Then you should be able to connect to it from the wireless devices and see the rest of the network. It's really no different than daisy-chaining wired routers.

 

[RichUK]

You don?t need more than two routers on a relatively small LAN. You only need one to interface between your network and the internet. So just get a wireless access point, and have it hang off you wired router.

Just set a static IP for your wireless access point that is outside the scope of your DHCP service.

I always set the router's last octet to 254, then work down for other static IP?s. So I would then set the AP's host octet to 253 (192.168.1.253).

 

[corkyg]

My wireless router does both - it has 4 Cat5 ports and does both Wireless and wired at the same time.