Connecting wired and wireless router

lelen · February 21st, 2007, 08:53 PM

Hello! I'm new in this forum. Can you please help me, too.

I have a wired router (D-link ethernet broadband) with 3 desktops connected to it for internet sharing. It is functioning properly for almost a year now. Now, I bought a Netgear wireless router for my laptop and wanted to place it where I could get maximum coverage.

Can anybody please help me with a step-by-step guide in connecting this two routers. My D-link router will be used as is, thinking that it will be the main router.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Lelen

**GroundZero3** · February 21st, 2007, 09:46 PM

router behind router

lelen · February 21st, 2007, 09:58 PM

Thanks! But I'm not that techie so I'd rather please ask for an easy guide to do it...

**GroundZero3** · February 21st, 2007, 10:13 PM

Why dont you just put the netgear in place of the dlink.

Gcgeek2733 · February 21st, 2007, 10:13 PM

Hey,
I just bought a Linksys Wireless (54G) Router today and I have a question-
Do you need a modem and/or internet connection to set it up? Because All i did was put the plug that came with the Router into the computer and and link it to the router. but the internet wont work.

Thanks!

-lexi

**GroundZero3** · February 21st, 2007, 10:14 PM

gcgeek, please made your own thread on your own subject.

lelen · February 22nd, 2007, 02:44 AM

Hi GroundZero3,

Thanks for your reply! I tried to do it base on what I did to D-link. I configured the Netgear alone with my broadband connection. Did not change anything but let the router detect its own settings. And then I returned the broadband connection to the D-link. I, then, connect a cable to one of the LAN ports of the D-link and the other end to the internet port of the Netgear. So far, so good! The wireless connection is working fine. Actually, I'm using it now with my laptop outside the house. Also, my Pocket Pc can connect to it wirelessly. Did not realize it's that simple...

Thanks a lot for all the things that I've read in this forum which gave me confidence to do it myself. And also to you who have been kind enough to reply...

Lelen

Bizkitkid2001 · February 22nd, 2007, 03:04 AM

Like GZ3 said, why do you need to run two routers? You should be able to hook up your 3 wired computers to the Netgear the same way you hooked them up to the D-link router.

Just get rid of the D-Link router and put the Netgear router in its place. It can do both wired and wireless at the same time so no need to run two routers at once.

lelen · February 22nd, 2007, 03:28 AM

Hi Biz! My broadband connection/modem was "permanently" placed in a room which is far from my room and from the garden. I wanted to find a place where I can get a maximum coverage of my wireless connection. If I place the wireless (netgear) there, there are so many blocks including the walls, before it can go to my room and to the garden. All I did was to have another cable, pass it through the walls (hidden) and connect it to the wireless router positioned strategically where it can get maximum coverage.

Thanks for your concern,

lelen

Bizkitkid2001 · February 22nd, 2007, 04:08 AM

Ok, I did not know that you had the second wireless router in a different room.

For future reference, you can by Wireless range extenders to extend your wireless range and get rid of dead spots without having to go through the hassle of running wires through your home to a second wireless hotspot (Bridge, Router, ect..) Wireless extenders plug straight into a wall outlet and you can put them anywhere. They pretty much just pickup any Wireless signal and then rebounds it back out at a further range.