Two Routers, One Network

Doctor RayRay · Jan 8, 2014

Hi, I have two routers. One is connected to the modem and our main desktop; the other is upstairs and is wired to the main one. They are both working fine, but they both appear as different points on a wifi list. How can I make it so if you connect to one, you connect to both?

Here are the routers
Main- http://www.amazon.com/2Wire-3800hgv-b-2wire-3800HGV-B-HomePortal/dp/B0042IEZSO
Secondary- http://www.netgear.com/home/products/networking/wifi-routers/WNR2000.aspx

bill001g · Jan 9, 2014

First you must make it one network you want to run your second router as a AP rather than a router. Then you want to set the SSID to the same on both devices. The radio channel though you should make different so they do not interfere with each other

mbreslin1954 · Jan 10, 2014

As bill001g said, you need to make the upstairs router into a wireless access point (AP). That means you don't want the upstairs router acting as a router, handing out it's own addresses, you want it to just pass on any requests for IP addresses to the main router connected to the modem. Also, turn OFF DHCP on the upstairs router, so that it doesn't try handing out its own addresses -- you want it to just act as a pass-through device, so that all requests for addresses go on to the main router downstairs and the upstairs one does not respond, just passes everything back and forth.

To do this, log on to the second router upstairs at it's web address, something like 192.168.1.1 or 10.1.10.1 or whatever it is, it will be in the manual, along with the default userid and password.

Assign it a static IP address in the range that your main router is using. For instance, if your main router downstairs is set to 192.168.1.1, and is handing out IP address via DHCP in the range of 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.200, then you could assign the upstairs router the static IP address 192.168.1.2. Just make sure the static IP address you assign is not in the range of DHCP (dynamic) addresses being handed out by the main router. And turn OFF DHCP on the upstairs, second router.

The next step is to connect the cable between the two routers to a LAN port on the back of the second, upstairs router, one of the ORANGE ports, NOT the yellow Internet port. This will cause the second router to act as an access point (AP), rather than a router.

These two things should do the trick for you.

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