Two routers connected together, hosting gaming servers

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Hi, everyone I could use some help so here's my situation,

In my house I have one Comcast router/modem combo downstairs and that is providing WiFi for everyone downstairs but my office is upstairs so i have a Ethernet cable going from the first router to my second router upstairs that is a WRT54G and it works great providing WiFi and such. But here's my problem if i try to host any sort of lobby in a game it wont work, but if i unplug the Ethernet and plug it straight into my computer i can host all the lobbies i want but that leaves all my other devices without WiFi so what i want to do is host through the second while still connected to the first router. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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Yes if your downstairs router is 192.168.1.1 and upstairs router is 192.168.1.2 then you are good to go. Yes toggle off DHCP on the upstairs router. I would also reboot the upstairs router after you have done all the config. Webpages should actually load faster (or maybe the same speed, but not slower).
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Hey thanks for the help so far, but i have a problem in my router settings i don't have an option to turn DHCP off. The options i have though other than DHCP on are Static Ip, PPPoE. PPTP, L2TP, or Telstra cable.

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Ok here is what you do. Go into your routers config. Under Advanced Configuration go to Network Setup. Here you will see a section for the router IP. You will need to give the router an IP address that is in the same subnet as your Comcast cable modem. In this instance the same subnet would mean the first three octets of the IP address (for example 192.168.1). So go into the Comcast router and see what subnet it is on. Also the IP you give your router should not be in the range that is defined in the Comcast DHCP scope. It sounds complicated but it really is not. That step should take you maybe 2 minutes. Now also under Network Setup is the DHCP settings. Here you will want to disable them (on your upstairs router). Save all that and move the upink cable from downstairs to your LAN port of your upstairs router and all should be good. To get to your router config in the future you will need to enter the IP address you gave it during your reconfig above.
 
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ok sounds a bit complicated but i know that the comcast router has an ip of 192.168.1.1 and the upstairs router i have it set so the local ip for it is 192.168.1.2 i did this because if there both on 1.1 i cant login and the ethernet cable is plugged in lan both ends now the only thing is that webpages load slower now, and i found a toggle to have the DHCP server on or off so i'm guessing i should switch that to off correct?
 
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Yes if your downstairs router is 192.168.1.1 and upstairs router is 192.168.1.2 then you are good to go. Yes toggle off DHCP on the upstairs router. I would also reboot the upstairs router after you have done all the config. Webpages should actually load faster (or maybe the same speed, but not slower).
 
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