I have a Scientific Atlantic cable modem which is subscribed to Optimum Cable. A Cisco RV220W wireless router has been is our home for quite a while, operating our home network; 1 desktop, 2 laptops, 2 cell phones and 2 tablets without any problems. Our daughter recently moved back home, on the second floor, with her 2 kids, 2 Smart TV’s, 2 laptops, 3 cell phones, an Xbox and a PlayStation. Needless to say, I can’t even connect to my internet sometimes and everything else is operating at a snail’s pace. I have a NetGear WNR2000 wireless router that I would like to install on the 2nd floor and give my daughter and her 2 kids their own network and wireless connections. I have been following some threads and it seems like I can do a router to router - Lan to Wan setup for them. Can anyone walk me through this? Thanks.
Cable modem and 2 wireless routers
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Thank you for your answer, jimpz. I agree that the Cisco router should be able to handle all of the connections. I’m sorry that I only gave you the short version of the scenario, because I didn’t want to make the post too long... Longer version: When the *crew* first arrived in September with all of their electronics, they were staying on the main floor of our house. They were connected to my network and were good to go, except that they were able to see and make changes to my network settings, etc. This became the big issue. I moved them to the other end of the house and upstairs to the second floor bedrooms which is approximately 100 feet away. Our house is a stucco and plaster converted barn built in 1870 with timber frame construction, heavy walls and many, many doors. Where they are living now is an attached 2 story brick addition that was added in 1926 complete with wire lath plaster walls and cast iron piping. They were not able to receive any signal from the Cisco router. Subsequently, I ran an internet cable from the Cisco router to the Netgear router at their new location. I set it up as a separate network, (Cisco Lan to Netgear Wan), where they received a strong signal and were able to continue their *connectivity*. But from my end, I know that the settings are not 100% correct. I keep making changes to the DCHP settings, the subnet ranges, static IP address, etc., trying to get it correct. Obviously this sort of tweaking is above my pay grade. Lol. I hope to get this resolved by 2016.
I'm not sure if this would help... but get the WiFi Analyzer app on your phone, and make sure the channels are not interfering with each other. The two SSID's should be on their own channels...
Also, the Ethernet connection from your first router should be going into a LAN port of the second one, not the WAN port.
I'm no means an expert on this subject, but have had to fix a similar problem and those are some of the steps I took to troubleshoot.
Also, the Ethernet connection from your first router should be going into a LAN port of the second one, not the WAN port.
I'm no means an expert on this subject, but have had to fix a similar problem and those are some of the steps I took to troubleshoot.
The capacity/speed issue is likely over utilization of your internet connection and there is no solution to that other than buy more bandwidth somehow.
If you want to isolate the networks so their device can not see yours you can do that with a router but it takes more than just a router behind a router. First step is to do that and assign the second lan subnet different than your main one. The WAN port will get a IP on the main network. Now this prevents the machines on the main network from getting to the second network because of the nat but I suspect the reverse is more important or you would not even bother to do this. To prevent the reverse you will need to put in a firewall rule that says network 192.168.x.0 can not access 192.168.y.0. This is done on the secondary router. Now if they can change the secondary router to remove this rule then things get very complex.
If you want to isolate the networks so their device can not see yours you can do that with a router but it takes more than just a router behind a router. First step is to do that and assign the second lan subnet different than your main one. The WAN port will get a IP on the main network. Now this prevents the machines on the main network from getting to the second network because of the nat but I suspect the reverse is more important or you would not even bother to do this. To prevent the reverse you will need to put in a firewall rule that says network 192.168.x.0 can not access 192.168.y.0. This is done on the secondary router. Now if they can change the secondary router to remove this rule then things get very complex.
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