Network?

Got a question.
Have my main router in back of house in unused room/office. Other side of my house and outside on patio garage etc had hardly any usable signal. Sooo I bought another router and some ethernet cable and now it is on garage ceiling. Anyway I plugged this in to my main router Lan port but can't see files from other computer etc. I can't seem to get this in bridge mode which is what I think I need. New one is linksys ea6350 main is ea6400. What I had before was my old wrt54g ddwrt setup in repeater bridge mode it worked fine until it finally bricked, guess 300 mhz and topped out signal strength took a toll on it over time even fan cooled with a heatsint.

Can anyone help?

 

Maybe @Aw9d or @digitaLbraVo could help

 

You have the second "router" likely in NAT. If it has switch* ports try plugging into that. Make sure on the 2nd "router" the DHCP server is turned off, you're on the same network (192.168.1.0/24 for instance) and you should be good.

*Make sure it's NOT the "WAN" or "INTERNET" port.

 

Rip old fella.

 

Yeah its in correct port as I can be on Internet etc flawlessly.

 

The interface in this thing sucks. I got it cheap as hell on let go and thought I would 3rd party software on it but didn't check to make sure it was compatable which it isnt.

 

You're passing through the firewall. I can almost promise it. Change the DHCP server on the 2nd router to some other subnet... say... 10.0.0.0/24 and you'll see two different IP addresses.

Interwebs will flow still to both networks but you're double NAT'd.

 

Really you should actually buy a proper wireless access point that runs on cable.

 

OK Thanks. Will check that out

 

Yeah I know. Got this on let go still in box for cheap.

 

Yeah the trick of it is to plug in the LAN ports for both devices and not use the internet port on the acting "access point." Make sure DHCP is turned off of the 2nd device.

And you're off to the races. The 2nd device will act purely as an access point.

 

My WRT54G(v2) still lives.

 

Got you. That makes sense. I'll fool with it later tonight, thanks for the help. I'll report back.

 

Mine is a v2 also, gonna get another and fool around with, it lasted maxed out for over a year which surprised me. Idk why it finally died. Just one day lost signal and power light is blinking fast. Tried all ideas online to fix it. Had it since about 2004 or so too.

 

I'm not sure how old mine is. Considered using it for only wireless G devices, while using my main wireless router for only wireless-N. Hoping maybe my N connections will be faster.

 

I absolutely agree with this.

Wireless network engineer here, I absolutely agree with getting a dedicated access point.


Aren't I so helpful?