Connecting 2 Wireless Routers?

[jwl28]

Can someone please help.

I have a Netgear WGR614 connected to a cable modem. I also have a Linksys WRT54G. I was wondering if there is anyway to connect the Linksys to the Netgear via wirelessly and using it as an extender.

[dedub]

Yes it is possible but not recommended. If you really wanted to do it, I would statically assign the wan port on the linksys to an available IP on the Netgear. Ensure you set the Gateway of the linksys to the Netgears Lan IP and lastly make sure you have DNS forwarded on the Linksys so IP's will resolve on the Netgear.
Here are the problems you'll have.
1. You cannot have both routers in the same Subnet, what that means is both Lan IP's have to have a different number, ie... 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.1.1
2. because of 1. Computers on different subnets will not be able to see each other. You will not be able to share printers, folders, music ect..
3. Having 2 802.11x routers in close proximity may cause interference or cause bandwidth degradation.

[jwl28]

Hey. Thx for the advice, but im still having trouble setting it up. I belive im doing most of the things right. Any other information would be greatful. Thx again!

[dedub]

take it one step at a time. get the computer talking to the linksys first. What that means is set it up stand alone without it hooked to the Netgear. install your wireless card and make sure it can receive an ip from the linksys router and make sure you can ping the Lan IP of the linksys and access the web GUI of the linksys router. When you get that far, make sure the wan port on the linksys is set up for DHCP if that is what's running on your Netgear and hook up a cat5 cable from the wan port on the linksys and an available port on the netgear. (You may need a cross over cable - I dont remember). Get back into the linksys router GUI and see if it got an IP on the WAN side from the Netgear. At that point you should be surfing. With two gateways, pages will be delayed for a second or two until the routing table builds and the routers figure out that they are passing traffic "one hop" between themselves. Once both routers are hooked together you should be able to access the netgears web GUI from the computer also. Be sure you do not have Mac filtering configured (at least not yet) and you do not have any specific deny rules set up on either router. REMEMBER, you have to have both routers on different subnets. here is an example. Netgear Lan IP is 192.168.0.1 and DHCP pool is from .0.100~150 and linksys LAN ip is 192.168.1.1 and DHCP pool is .1.100~150.
good luck and let us know it you get it up

last thing...remember basic trouble shooting. look for link lights and Ping, ping, ping