Asus DSL-n55u through another router to the internets

Vindojeens

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Hello folks,

I have recently puchased a DSL-n55u wireless router but cannot get it to work as intended. I have cable-internet at home The cable modem is connected to a Asus RT-N10E wireless router/adapter (it works perfectly). But as I life in a two story building and I don't receive a satisfieng WiFI signal upstairs, I purchased a DSL-n55u. I want to connect it to the RT-N10E and use it as wireless access point. Unfortunately, it doesn't connect through LAN. There is simply no signal. I read somewhere that I have to setup some LAN ports as WAN ports but I'm unable to do that. I can access both routers through WLAN perfectly..I even assigned different ip adresses to them (192.168.1.1 to the RT-N10E that is connected to the cable modem and 192.168.2.1 to the DSL-n55e that is connected through lan to the RT-N10E but still they dont communicated through lan. The DSl-n55u is not reconginizing it's connected to the internet although the lan cable is pluged in. I use the latest firmware. What can I do?

Thanks a lot in advance.
 

ajf_hodgson

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I was using the dsl-n55u on an ADSL connection (from O2). I moved to Virgin which is cable (and came with its own modem/router 'superhub'). I wanted to use my excellent dsl-n55u as a wireless extender/access point, but found out thathe standard firmware doesn't allow that. But, on https://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20130809202150242&board_id=11&model=DSL-N55U&page=1&SLanguage=en-us they offer a beta firmware called "Dual WAN". This looked promising BUT stupidly I did a hard reset on the dsl-n55u, and now it won't let me get past the 'No Phone Line Detected' page to load the new firmware. So in principle there's a way to do what you want, but I'm stuck :-(
 


Could you please open your thread since your problem is different than the OP?