Two Wifi hubs, one subnet?

[marcplante]

My home network includes an ethernet backbone and two wifi hubs. The second wifi hub creates a second subnet that is causing difficulty streaming from PCs to BluRay players around the house.

Most of the house is on 192.168.1.xxx

The second WIFI router (which I also use as a hub for Ethernet ports) drives [192.168.2.xxx] addressing. If I move my computer back to the 192.168.1.xxx domain, I can stream my music fine around the house.

1) Can I change or force the second router to turn off its addressing and subordinate it to the other router in the house? (turn off DHCP?...I'm not great with LAN tech)

2) is there a way to get the Sony players to recognize the 192.168.2.xxx addressing? check for gateway addressing slots in the BR player network setup?

Thanks,

Marc

 

[paperwastage]

what routers?

// tried using 2 Asus RT-N16 with tomato firmware, one with DHCP, one wireless bridged to the first one. Second one doesnt have DHCP, so all devices connected to either device gets one ip frm one subnet from the first router

 

[VirtualLarry]

yeah, give the second router a LAN IP one different than the first router, and outside the DHCP range of the first router, and disable DHCP on the second router.

 

[marcplante]

Will do. Thanks. I have a Fios modem router combo and a Belkin N750 for the record.

 

[JackMDS]

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