So, I finally got my WiFi working at home. I had tried it before but ran into some problems. You see, I already have a wired router hooked up with all sorts of filters and redirects since my websites are run off a server in my closet. I didn’t want to trash that router and redo all of those settings on the wireless router. So I wanted to keep my existing router and just add in the wireless one. That was not easy to figure out.
I finally figured out how to do it today so I am writing it up for myself and any future internet travellers looking for this info. Here is how I did it:
For reference, I have a wired D-link DI-704 (router1) and a wireless D-link DI-524 (router2) but from here on out, I will call them router1 and router2 because the principles here should pertain to any routers (wireless or wired).
router1 was set to have an IP of 192.168.0.1 and was already working fine. The new router2 was also set to have 192.168.0.1 by default so the first thing I had to do was change router2’s address to be something else – I chose 192.168.0.2. You do this in the configuration webpage for your router. Now hook up router2 to router1 by using a crossover cable connected from any of router2’s LAN ports (NOT the WAN port) to any of router1’s LAN ports. This was my first mistake when I tried this before. I connected to router2’s WAN port – don’t do that.
On router2, disable DHCP. On the computer(s) you want to connect to router2 (wirelessly in my case), you have to set them up to have a static IP address. My router1 gives out IPs in the range of 192.168.0.200-192.168.0.205. 202, 203, and 205 were already taken so I assigned the new computer (the laptop using wireless) an IP of 192.168.0.204 (subnet mask 255.255.255.0). On this computer I also set the Default Gateway to be the IP of router1 (192.168.0.1) and also set the DNS server to also be the IP of router1 (192.168.0.1).
That’s it. Of course there are some other steps involved if your router2 is wireless, but those steps are the same regardless of how you hook them up (don’t forget to turn ON encryption!).
Hopefully this will help someone in the future.
Geek Tags: geek, routers, wifi, howto, tutorial
Brian,
Good work, smarter man than I!
I’ll probably be sending you an email about your server setup (I’m considering moving my website from a provider to a home server and have some questions…If you don’t mind!
Sure, send them on!
can i used algorithem to find best root between five routers ?
what is the wireless lan router routing algorithm?
what is wireless network routing problem?
Would it not be just as easy to obtain an IP address automatically? I have a wireless hooked up to my wired. I let the wired find it’s address, and then let my wireless do it’s search, this is done by disconnecting both power sources to the routers for about thirty seconds or so, and in my case, I choose to have both the computers off. I reconnect the power source to the wired, then to the wireless, note, the wireless has to be connected to the wired at the time of search. All has worked out for the best so far. It seems much easier then having to enter said address’s. I may be talking about a whole different deal here, but I don’t think so. I do know that the system I am using is much easier for the novist computer nut, or I should say, for me. I do know that if I do not know my address I am lost.Yes, you can do an ipconfig/all, but all has to be good in order to even do that. I have tried putting in my address manually, but that did not work all that well for me. I am just asking if we are on the same page, and if so, have you ever tried using said method?