can you join 2 routers ?

[fatgaz]

Hi peeps,
my mate has broken his adsl wireless router and cannot aford to replace it at the moment, he has two spare routers one is an adsl netgear (nonwireless) the other is an ethernet linksys (wireless) is it poss to plug the adsl cable into the netgear run an ethernet rj45 from port 1 of the netgear to the wlan of the linsys and transmit a wireless connection from the liksys to his laptop etc. He has not tried yet as he is afraid of messing up either routers as they might need configuring to talk to each other, any help much app thanks in advance for any replies

[deggers316]

there's help in this area here

[rojash]

Why not just replace the broken one with one of the working ones?

[fatgaz]

he only has adsl coming into the house and the only adsl router he has is wired so he wants to know if he can join his linksys wireless router to the netgear so he can send out a connection to his desktop and laptop wirelessly

[ChuckFickens]

You can...

Connect them using the lan ports and turn of DHCP on the second router.

[ChuckFickens]

Or even "turn off DHCP"

[ChuckFickens]

BTW.....

I'm assuming when you say "ethernet linksys" you mean it's a cable router?

If so to clarify...

Ignore the cable (WAN) port on the lynksys all together and use the normal LAN ports to connect the two together, before doing this though, connect a computer to one of the lan ports on the lynksys, preferably set the computer to a static IP in the range the lynksys allocates, log into the lyncsys setup pages, firstly disable DHCP, then optionally change the IP address of the lynksys router to one in a different range than the netgear (you'll loose connection to the router as this point)

Then simply connect the two together using a ethernet cable (again using the LAN ports, not the WAN port!), make sure you put the computer back onto obtain IP address automatically and connect it wireless, the netgear will then supply DHCP and will be set as the gateway and the lynksys will just act as a wireless switch.

Connecting them using the WAN port on the lynksys without making any changes would result in getting double NAT, which although it would appear to work would cause problems with some services (such as VOIP)

[fatgaz]

thanks very much chuk, that info was spot on I will print it off and take it round asap so he can get back on line, once again thank you