How to connect a belkin N600 dual band wireless router to a LAN port?

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bluephoenix71

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Belkin N600 Wireless DSL Dualband Router

We just transferred to a secure flat, where the wireless DSL router is in a different floor and different room of the house. The DSL router has it's LAN port connected to a Cisco switch and those switch ports are now connected to the patch panels going to every room of the house. We have that data port in our room and it's working when I plugged an ethernet cable and connected it to my laptop. Internet is working, the wireless router supports wpa/wpa2.

My question is this:

Can I connect a Belkin N600 wireless router, connect it to the LAN with the SSID and password;
Create another SSID on my Belkin so that my laptop can just connect to the SSID I have created?
If it's possible, then could anyone please give the step by step procedure?


Thank you so much.

Belkin N600 Wireless DSL Dualband Router
 
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luketexas

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Hi, for what purpose do you want to do this? Is the wireless provided by the apartment block not strong enough signal in your apartment or are you trying to set up your own networking on their network? as long as the Cisco switch doesn't have any port security that would deny the Belkin router. Will you be running DHCP on that router? Essentially you'd plug the Belkin router into a port on your patch panel, then configure the wireless settings through the Belkin routers default gateway via your laptop. In theory your laptop should have internet as soon as you connect it to the Belkin routers ethernet port because all the switches should switch automatically.
 
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Because it seems that the Cisco AP in our room doesn't like my MacBook pro mid 2014 release ! LOL really and seriously...
I made this tests.
my work laptop, dell with I54300U Intel processor with 16GB RAM; windows 7 professional
a Macbook air mid 2013 release 13" I guess with 8GB RAM
a sony Vaio laptop, old one about 2011 release.

I downloaded the trial version of windows 10 in Microsoft Technical evaluation center. It's 3.5+ GB in size.

All the laptops can download the whole file and recover automatically if the download speed slows down, EXCEPT the MBP mid 2014 release. I have already made the MBP put into default settings and same issue happenss
I have already argued and quarrelled with Apple support to change the WIFI card, they did and still the same issue.

I think there is an issue on the Cisco AP in our room; maybe some compatibility issue, but I can't complain since we are not the owner of the house and we are only mere tenants. The Service provider will not do any firmware upgrade on their CISCO AP's since I am the only one having the issue... So I would reallly like to connect a wireless router via the LAN port to the patch panel and make it as a wireless router that relays internet connectivity to the new SSID I would like to create so I can just connect wirelessly to the Belkin and not have that incompatibility issue... When I was in my old flat, I can download anything since I am connecting wireless and directly to my wireless router...

Also is it possilbe to connect a desktop in that wireless domain or new SSID I have created and that desktop can be accessed through the internet?

Please let me know if it's possible and kindly give the step by step procedure as well?


Thanks,

 
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In order to do this, you must assign a static IP to the new WIFI router, you can only do this if you have access/control of the box doing DHCP.

Simple:

Hookup ethernet from wall to one of the LAN ports on the new WIFI router.
If new WIFI router has a WAN port, leave it disconnected.
Yes configure a new SSID with pwd.
Turn it on, and that's it.
 
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Thanks!, So I connect the LAN port of the belkin n600 to the wall jack to get a DHCP IP, which I will configure to a static IP ( given by the LAN provider). Now If I connect another LAN port of the Belkin N600 to a laptop for example; that will get a DHCP IP from my wireless router is that right? Or will it just connect again to the building's LAN?

With this setup, how can I access for example a desktop that I connected to my wireless router over the internet?


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