Hard wiring two wireless routers

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I work in a large shop with an attached office area. The office has a wireless router and I now need wireless in the shop.

I have a cat5 running from the office into the shop where there is no wifi reception. I have hooked up an E1000 router and configured it with a different IP than the primary router.

A computer in the shop connects to the internet when hardwired with the cable I ran. When connected to the INTERNET port, the E1000 does not pick up internet. The internet light on the router flickers as if data is transmitting, but also blinks at a steady rate.

Bottom line: No internet through the E1000.

I've gone through online forums and help documents, but I'm not having any luck.

Thoughts, anyone?
 
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After the 2 routers have been connected via LAN Ethernet ports, you need to:

1) Configure the new router with the same subnet (192.168.1.x 255.255.255.0 for example)

2) Then add a static default route on the second router., pointing to the LAN IP of the first router. It would look something like this:
0.0.0.0 [all destinations] 0.0.0.0 [all...
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On the second router, use one of the LAN ports to connect to the primary router.

Basically, you're using it as a switch/access point.

To start:
Connect to the secondary router via a cable
Log in to it
Turn OFF DHCP
Now connect the secondary to the primary, via a cable in one of the ethernet ports.
 
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Thank you for the recommendation. I had seen this on another forum and tried it. I double checked after your comments. I turned off DHCP. I connected the computer to port 1 and the ethernet hardwired to the other router into port 4. Now, there is no internet light, and port 4 is flickering with a steady blink, same as the internet port was originally.

Still no internet through the router.
 
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After the 2 routers have been connected via LAN Ethernet ports, you need to:

1) Configure the new router with the same subnet (192.168.1.x 255.255.255.0 for example)

2) Then add a static default route on the second router., pointing to the LAN IP of the first router. It would look something like this:
0.0.0.0 [all destinations] 0.0.0.0 [all masks] 192.169.1.254 [1st Router LAN IP (or the equivalent IP]
 
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We found the solution. Apparently, our modem was only allowing for one IP. I had to call the cable company and allow for multiple IP's. I had the configuration right, just needed more IP's. Thank you all for your help.
 
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1 modem, 1 IP address is the standard [strike]residential [/strike]configuration.
Are they charging you for that second IP address?

EDIT: strike residential
 
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We added on a static IP a few months ago, but never programmed the modem with the static information. After today's phone call we are utilizing the static and dynamic IP's
 
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