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Old September 1st, 2006, 03:41 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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Need some help getting 2 wireless routers to work together

I'm currently running 3 computers (2x Win2k, 1x WinXPHome) through an old DLink DI-713P 802.11b router. I've picked up a cheap G router and plan to use that as the primary router controlling access.

However, the Dlink router has a built in print server, which I would like to continue to use. So, I'd like to do the following:

1. Plug the Dlink into a wired port of the G router;

2. Turn off the wireless routing of the Dlink and use the G for actual routing;

3. But still be able to access the printer which is attached.

Does anyone know a good tutorial which will walk me through this?
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Old September 1st, 2006, 04:26 PM     #2 (permalink)
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Re: Need some help getting 2 wireless routers to work together

This is definitely workable. Does either router have an uplink port? Alternately, some routers have an auto-configurable uplike port.

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Re: Need some help getting 2 wireless routers to work together

I'm not sure, because I don't have the G router yet. It's this one:

http://www.sparklan.com/product_details.php?prod_id=78

although it's branded as a CompUSA.

I'm pretty sure this is do-able as well, I'm just hoping there's a tutorial or walkthrough somewhere out there.

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not really much of a tutorial but just disable the dhcp server for the dlink, assign it a static ip address on your subnet and disable the firewall (if possible, you dont really need to do this but just for safe measures)

the dlink will go from one of the 4 ports to the other 4 ports on the new router. Nothing should be plugged into the WAN port on the dlink anymore.

Depending on the equipment you might need a cross over cable between the two devices.
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