Second wireless router wired to primary

[PurdueRy]

Hello everyone,

In my effort to increase my knowledge of networking I thought it would be cool to see if I could get a second wireless router connected via a wired connection to my primary and get internet access by connecting to it. Well I got the second router set up and disabled its DHCP capability. I connected to it via a laptop and was a assigned a IP from the DHCP of the primary laptop, but there is no internet access on the laptop.

Here is how the network is setup currently:

Cable modem ---(wired)---Primary Wireless Router - - - - - (wireless) - - - - - Secondary Wireless router(bridge mode)


The second connection picks up from the primary router

Primary Router----(wired)----cheap pos router---(wired)---Wireless router in question

I want that wireless router to have internet access. As state before, I have confirmed the laptop connected to the router in question is only receiving a IP from the Primary router. However, it shows no connectivity to the internet. What am I missing?

 

[JackMDS]

Using a Wireless Router as a switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Using a Wireless Router as a switch with an Access Point - http://www.ezlan.net/router_AP.html

It appears I've done all those steps Jack...as I said the second wireless router acts as a passthrough and the computer connected via wireless gets an IP from the primary.

 

[PurdueRy]

Ok new realization. I think having the bridge only allows my wireless router(configured as a adapter) to connect to the internet. When I tried to connect wirelessly to the primary router I don't get internet anymore.

 

[JackMDS]

If your primary Router is configured as regular Infra structure Wireless it can feed regular Wireless clients as a well as another Router configured as a Client.

Router configured as a client is Not an open Wireless any, more and only can feed computers through wires.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
If your primary Router is configured as regular Infra structure Wireless it can feed regular Wireless clients as a well as another Router configured as a Client.

Router configured as a client is Not an open Wireless any, more and only can feed computers through wires.

The problem turned out to be with the laptop I was using to try to connect...there was some weirdness with it not liking to connect to the DD-WRT mixed security. Seems to work now. Thanks!

 

[JackMDS]

The Mixed security is a Mixed blessing, work OK with some Chipset and Cr**s in others.

 

[PurdueRy]

Thanks I'll keep that in mind. Glad to know I'm not the only one who has seen oddities from it!