Router Switching IP Conflict

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I have a Motorola SBG6580 as my main Wi-Fi Router/Modem then on the other end of my house there is a Netgear N150 Router with Ethernet cord running to it that has the same SSID/Password as the original Motorola Router to increase network signal. This works well except for when the connected devices are switching between the two routers, they switch but when reconnecting to the main router once I move closer to it they will not load anything on the internet and require me to disable then re-enable the Wi-Fi on that device it does keep the same IP address throughout all of the transitions. What could be wrong and how would I fix it? Thanks in advance for your help!
 
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It in theory should work but as you find out it does not always work in practice. It is likely a bug in the driver in the PC or maybe the firmware of the router.

What is happening even though you have the same SSID and password the actual keys that are used between the your PC and the 2 different wireless devices are actually different. Part of this key negotiation includes the mac address of the router/ap. Normally the PC will detect the mac address of wireless it is connected to changed and renegotiate these keys...this generally causes a small 1 second or so glitch.

Now if as stated in the above post you have dhcp enabled on both routers then that is a huge problem you need to run the second router as a AP
It in theory should work but as you find out it does not always work in practice. It is likely a bug in the driver in the PC or maybe the firmware of the router.

What is happening even though you have the same SSID and password the actual keys that are used between the your PC and the 2 different wireless devices are actually different. Part of this key negotiation includes the mac address of the router/ap. Normally the PC will detect the mac address of wireless it is connected to changed and renegotiate these keys...this generally causes a small 1 second or so glitch.

Now if as stated in the above post you have dhcp enabled on both routers then that is a huge problem you need to run the second router as a AP
 
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DHCP is enabled on both routers, how would I run it as an AP? Thanks in advance for your help!
 

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So basically I run the ethernet cord from the Motorola Router/Modem to the Netgear N150 yellow plug in, then disable DHCP on the Netgear N150 and if the Motorola Router/Modem IP address for me to change it's settings is 192.168.0.1 and the Netgear N150 is 192.168.1.1 then I shouldn't have to mess with the IP addresses correct?
 
The ip needs to be in the same subnet if you want to access it. 192.168.0.250 or something would be better.

N150 is too generic they have a number of routers and are inconstant with the colors. There should be 4 ports the same color you want to plug into one of those.
 

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Tell me if I am on the right track, I have the ethernet cord running from the Motorola SBG6580 Modem/Router (it is plugged into one of the the regular ethernet ports like you would plug a desktop into) to the Netgear WNR1000v3 (N150) Router and is plugged into the yellow WAN port on it that you would plug the ethernet cord from your modem into, they both have the same SSID and password, but when I disable the DHCP server from the Netgear router by unchecking use router as dhcp server I am unable to connect to it and I cannot give the router a different ip address because it says that it interferes with the dhcp server. Also I understand you say thet the WAN port is not used but if it is not then how would the router have internet access, or can internet travel to it through those ports too? There is probably something that i'm not doing but I do not know what. Thanks in advance for your help! Also here is a picture. http://imageshack.com/a/img844/1165/8hu4.jpg
 

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Thank you so much! This worked flawlessly and I now have internet access! Thanks again!