Solve : Can one router connect wirelessly to another router??

1.	Solve : Can one router connect wirelessly to another router??
Answer» I have several computers at home, the laptops have built in wireless adapters and so can access the internet from anywhere in the house. The desktops however do not have builtin wifi adapters so the only OPTION for them to get wireless internet is to put an external wireless adapter on each. What I want to do is to have the upstairs wireless adapter communicate with another wireless adapter downstairs, so that I can then hardwire the downstairs router to a desktop COMPUTER downstairs. Is this possible? Yes. It is documented. But why not just use an adapter meant to do that? Routers are three or four times more expensive that simple adapters. Here is a link about a LinkSys router on Tom's hardware. Read the posts and note what they hard to do to make it work. http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20508-43-using-linksys-router-access-point For all the trouble, I would just buy a cheep $15 USB gizmo and be done with nit.It can be done, I'm doing exactly that: A wifi router downstairs, and one upstairs with a couple of servers plugged into it. With that said, Geek-9pm is right, if you don't already have the 2 routers, buying one just for one machine is un-economical. Where is the master phone socket, upstairs or downstairs? Btw, you could probably also install internal wifi adapters, so external aren't the only way. sid, I already have two routers, thats why I was hoping it could be done. How do you get one router to wirelessly SEE the other router, how did you do it Quote from: shashgo on March 11, 2011, 09:15:27 AM sid, I already have two routers, thats why I was hoping it could be done. How do you get one router to wirelessly see the other router, how did you do it My routers are both Netgear DG834G's, and it's a setting called WDS mode, and it's under: Advanced Wireless Settings WDS Mode Enable Wireless Bridging and Repeating Repeater with Wireless Client Association (you set the MAC address of the 2nd router here) Then I set the SSID the same, and the password the same. On these routers it only works with WEP, and if you're using MAC filtering you'll need to create the rules on both. Also, it's worth changing the IP address of at least one of them BEFORE you start. If you google Wireless Bridging and Repeating there should be some good tutorials available. Quote from: shashgo on March 10, 2011, 06:18:59 PM What I want to do is to have the upstairs wireless adapter communicate with another wireless adapter downstairs, so that I can then hardwire the downstairs router to a desktop computer downstairs. Is this possible? I don't see why two routers are needed here. Surely, your wireless router has 4 ports on back for ethernet cable connections, right? By "hardwire", you mean connecting to an ethernet port, right? I can't image what else that would mean. So, you can "hardwire" it to any computer and still have your wireless access. soybean, youre correct, the router has ethernet ports on it. However, its quite a distance from where the router is to downstairs where the computer is. So Id have to use a really long ethernet wire if I wanted to connect the computer to that router. So what Im trying to do is have a router downstairs communicate with the router upstairs so that I can then just run a short ethernet wire from the router downstairs to the computer downstairs Ethernet is good for 300 feet. Wireless 802.11g does not do 300 feet indoors going through walls. Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 11, 2011, 04:18:35 PM Ethernet is good for 300 feet. Wireless 802.11g does not do 300 feet indoors going through walls. That said, it's not ALWAYS possible to run a cable through the walls (like when you're renting), and it looks untidy if you run it along the walls, floor or stairs.

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I have several computers at home, the laptops have built in wireless adapters and so can access the internet from anywhere in the house. The desktops however do not have builtin wifi adapters so the only OPTION for them to get wireless internet is to put an external wireless adapter on each.

What I want to do is to have the upstairs wireless adapter communicate with another wireless adapter downstairs, so that I can then hardwire the downstairs router to a desktop COMPUTER downstairs. Is this possible?
Yes. It is documented. But why not just use an adapter meant to do that? Routers are three or four times more expensive that simple adapters.
Here is a link about a LinkSys router on Tom's hardware. Read the posts and note what they hard to do to make it work.
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/20508-43-using-linksys-router-access-point
For all the trouble, I would just buy a cheep $15 USB gizmo and be done with nit.It can be done, I'm doing exactly that:

A wifi router downstairs, and one upstairs with a couple of servers plugged into it.

With that said, Geek-9pm is right, if you don't already have the 2 routers, buying one just for one machine is un-economical.

Where is the master phone socket, upstairs or downstairs?

Btw, you could probably also install internal wifi adapters, so external aren't the only way. sid,

I already have two routers, thats why I was hoping it could be done. How do you get one router to wirelessly SEE the other router, how did you do it
Quote from: shashgo on March 11, 2011, 09:15:27 AM

sid,

I already have two routers, thats why I was hoping it could be done. How do you get one router to wirelessly see the other router, how did you do it

My routers are both Netgear DG834G's, and it's a setting called WDS mode, and it's under:

Advanced Wireless Settings
WDS Mode
Enable Wireless Bridging and Repeating
Repeater with Wireless Client Association (you set the MAC address of the 2nd router here)

Then I set the SSID the same, and the password the same. On these routers it only works with WEP, and if you're using MAC filtering you'll need to create the rules on both. Also, it's worth changing the IP address of at least one of them BEFORE you start.

If you google Wireless Bridging and Repeating there should be some good tutorials available. Quote from: shashgo on March 10, 2011, 06:18:59 PM

What I want to do is to have the upstairs wireless adapter communicate with another wireless adapter downstairs, so that I can then hardwire the downstairs router to a desktop computer downstairs. Is this possible?

I don't see why two routers are needed here. Surely, your wireless router has 4 ports on back for ethernet cable connections, right? By "hardwire", you mean connecting to an ethernet port, right? I can't image what else that would mean. So, you can "hardwire" it to any computer and still have your wireless access. soybean,
youre correct, the router has ethernet ports on it. However, its quite a distance from where the router is to downstairs where the computer is. So Id have to use a really long ethernet wire if I wanted to connect the computer to that router. So what Im trying to do is have a router downstairs communicate with the router upstairs so that I can then just run a short ethernet wire from the router downstairs to the computer downstairs
Ethernet is good for 300 feet.
Wireless 802.11g does not do 300 feet indoors going through walls.
Quote from: Geek-9pm on March 11, 2011, 04:18:35 PM

Ethernet is good for 300 feet.
Wireless 802.11g does not do 300 feet indoors going through walls.

That said, it's not ALWAYS possible to run a cable through the walls (like when you're renting), and it looks untidy if you run it along the walls, floor or stairs.

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