Ok. I'm trying to connect my wireless router to the land line router only. When I connect a wire to the wireless router the internet works and to the regular router it works too. But when I try to connect wireless I can not get on the internet. But I can connect wireless to the wireless router to change settings.... I looked online to see if a wireless router is different from a regular router to regular router and found this link which is pretty much what I did. http://www.qudon.com/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=31

10/8/2008 8:53:49 PM

crossover?

10/8/2008 11:29:48 PM

second router needs to be setup as an access point, not router. let the wired one be the dhcp server. what's probably happening is the second one doesn't have the dns server and default gateway info so it's giving you some local default values for those that obviously don't work.

10/9/2008 8:26:19 AM

just found out that the main router is actually a freaking hub. the owner never told me and when i saw it finally i was like ohh. the main problem is that I can not really mess with the hub except to add or subtract wires. and making my wireless router an access point only the first computer that connects to it can get internet. does this mean i have to do something about getting ip addresses? and i have to make it where the wireless is from the hub and hub to the internet and not the easy way of internet to wireless to hub.



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10/9/2008 12:56:33 PM

is this on roadrunner or what? typically you connect cable modem to WAN port on router (wireless or not) then connect hub and router together via regular ethernet cable

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10/9/2008 1:40:43 PM

yes road runner...

I have to have hub to internet and wireless to hub. I was just wondering if this was possible.

10/9/2008 1:43:01 PM

nope

well, it might be possible actually but i don't know how to do it and unless you have a managed switch i'd be almost certain you it can't be done with the hardware you have.

the whole point of a router is to basically act like a gateway to route between two networks--typically internal LAN and WAN/internet


ps how is this setup now? i don't really get how it could be working now

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10/9/2008 1:46:04 PM

right now one computer can get on wirelessly. I'm taking a small break on this problem. Going to try to get an ip to each computer from the hub first and then see if i can manually keep those assignment on each computer wirelessly. i'll keep you updated once or if i get this thing working the way he wants it. and not buy extra equipment. all this is new to me.

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10/9/2008 2:00:14 PM

Need two routers. And then,

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"second router needs to be setup as an access point, not router. let the wired one be the dhcp server. "

I remember having this exact setup, and the above is correct.

10/12/2008 11:10:01 AM

The speeds you're getting over your LAN are at least an order of magnitude faster than your WAN/Internet line; using a second router as anything more than a switch seems silly to me

10/12/2008 12:57:37 PM

Why would you even need two? Just connect the Ethernet from the cable modem to the WAN port on your router, then connect wired devices to the other ports on the back.

If it's like a lot of those modems I've seen, you'll need to spoof the MAC of your computer onto the router, but that's all you need to do. There's no need for all that junk, just use the wireless router like it was intended to be used.

10/16/2008 9:37:38 AM