Dual wifi router home network set up

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Noobie----I have a Motorola Surfboard 6580 in basement as main router with incoming cable TV and internet hooked up thru it. I have a Linksys ea4500 that I got for wifi media streaming but have since hardwired smart TV, AV amp, and blue ray player with powerline amplification thru basic switch. I need ea4500 for better wif signal upstairs and would like to have a home network where I can see all devices connected to network (laptop/desktop/printer/external storage). House is hard wired except for area where TV is with powerline amplification and switch. How would I accomplish this? Bridge/cascade, or is there another way? When ea4500 is connected to internet all I see is devices using ea4500. Please assist.
 
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You cannot have two routers on the same network. You need to convert the EA4500 into a wireless access point. Just connect it LAN port to LAN port to the 6580, turn off DHCP in the EA4500, assign the EA4500 a static address that is outside of the 6580 DHCP assignment range (but still within the network range of the 6580),

For example if the 6580 has an address of 192.168.0.1 and allows its DHCP to assign 192.168.0.2 to .128, then just give the EA4500 a static address in the range of 192.168.0.129 - .254.
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You cannot have two routers on the same network. You need to convert the EA4500 into a wireless access point. Just connect it LAN port to LAN port to the 6580, turn off DHCP in the EA4500, assign the EA4500 a static address that is outside of the 6580 DHCP assignment range (but still within the network range of the 6580),

For example if the 6580 has an address of 192.168.0.1 and allows its DHCP to assign 192.168.0.2 to .128, then just give the EA4500 a static address in the range of 192.168.0.129 - .254.
 
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Lovepoozer

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TYVM real beast. So much information about, and I needed clarity. Access points recently came to light recently but I wasn't certain. You have cleared this up. I appreciate you answering this particular question because for someone like me, the numerous post related but not identical to my situation, only further confused me. Linksys website make you believe you can only work Linksys to Linksys. I guess Motorola has been bought out because the 6580 website was not Motorola and I was leery. Again TYVM.
 
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