LAN ports not working on zombied 2nd router

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glass009

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Pretty much what the title says.

I have a second router with DHCP filtering turned off functioning as a wireless access point in my room. I tried to connect my Xbox to the router with an ethernet cable, but my Xbox doesn't recognize the wired connection.

The wireless signal it picks up just fine, just not the wired connection.


Any ideas as to why?


(possibly interesting sidenote: I can access my master router's control panel (192.168.1.1) but I can't seem to access my slave router's control panel (192.168.0.2). No idea why, although I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to work or not.)
 
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Have you tried a different cable to connect your Xbox to the router?

As for why you can't access the secondary router's control panel, it is because your computer (assigned an IP address from the primary router, which is in the 192.168.1.x range) is not in the same subnet as the secondary router, and most routers will not allow connections from outside their subnet. The secondary router should have been assigned an IP address in the 192.168.1.x subnet.

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cklaubur

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Have you tried a different cable to connect your Xbox to the router?

As for why you can't access the secondary router's control panel, it is because your computer (assigned an IP address from the primary router, which is in the 192.168.1.x range) is not in the same subnet as the secondary router, and most routers will not allow connections from outside their subnet. The secondary router should have been assigned an IP address in the 192.168.1.x subnet.

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glass009

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Can't really, I only have one spare ethernet cord long enough and that's it. It's brand new out-of-the-box though, be pretty weird for it to not work, but I suppose it's possible.

And the how-to I followed for setting up the secondary router specifically said that it's IP had to be on a different subnet....
 
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Hmm. Which how-to did you follow? I have a setup similar to yours, using a Linksys E2500 as the main router, and an Asus RT-N53 as a secondary router, and in the directions for the Asus, it says specifically to assign it an IP address in the same subnet. The Linksys WRT320N I had before the Asus worked the same way. Maybe I'm just not understanding how it would work.

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glass009

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Nope, you were correct, on both counts.

It /was/ the ether net cable. I found out when I read the sticky on modem/router setups and went about cascading my routers /properly/ and setting up my whole network again from scratch. After I reset both routers to factory specs I wasn't able to access them, but luckily I found an old Cat 6 cable I had lying around that I forgot I even had,a nd was able to set up both my routers, properly this time.

After I got everything set up I tried to connect my xbox via an ethernet connection with the broken cable, and of course it didn't work. I tried again with the Cat 6 cable and wala, works perfectly.

Thing is, the only other time I ever used that cable was to set up my routers originally, then I put it right back in its box and haven't touched it. Never kinked it, bent it or anything like that...weird that it would be busted, it's friggin brand new. On the other hand, that old Cat 6 cable is like 10 years old and has been collecting cobwebs in the basement and/or garage for better than half that time, it's been trampled, thrown around and wadded up and it still works perfectly.... go figure.



TL;DR: The ethernet cable was the problem.


***EDIT: Nevermind, cable wasn't broken. I used scotch tape to protect the ends of the cable when I was running it through the floor and stuff, and the tape is clear...and so is the plastic end on the RJ45 connector. Didn't see one tiny little sliver of tape I missed that was covering one of the copper contacts in the end of the connector.

...God I feel stupid.
 
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