Can I connect my router to the LAN port on my PC and give the internet connection of my PC to my router?

ChaoticWolf

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My router/modem is in my living room so my internet service can connect to it via Ethernet. I have an internet connection in my room with a wireless network adapter since my desktop doesn't have a wifi card. I want a second router in my room so that I can just use it for stuff like port forwarding, and better connections in my room and what not, so can I just connect the router with an Ethernet cable to my router in the LAN port on my PC and wan port on my router? Which port should I connect the Ethernet cable to on my router, wan or lan? if I use internet connection sharing in windows will that work?
 
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The key word in the port forwarding concept is "forward"
The router needs to send the data "forward", to the right port on next device in the chain. Which would be the PC.
Not "port backward".

You see what I'm describing?

ChaoticWolf

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Fair enough. Need to speak more clearly, lesson learned.

Still don't know if you're gonna get it but

I have a DSL service right? Okay, I have internet and tv for it, yeah. Receiver and modem in my living room. Just a bunch of equipment. A router/modem and a receiver. Obviously for me to watch tv, it needs to be connected to the internet
I don't know why but my ISP decided that they would put my modem in my living room where my tv, I can get why because if I want tv then the router has to be near to connect to the receiver via Ethernet
So I have a wireless usb adapter that's installed on my pc so I can connect to my router that's in my living room via wifi, since my pc doesn't have a built in wifi card
I have a second router from when I used to have my old ISP, which had the actual modem in my room and not in the living room, don't use that anymore because my new isp gave me a modem/router. its like all in one. It's just a dsl modem with wifi and dnla and what not, I want to connect my old wireless router to my PC with an Ethernet cable. So plug in the Ethernet cable to my pc and router. So the Ethernet cable plugs into a lan port on my pc, then into my router, and then enable ics (internet connection sharing) for my wifi and router so that my router will get internet from my pc

You might be wondering why I just don't move the modem that's in my living room and put it in my room, well obviously I cant because I need it for the tv in my living room and the cable that gives me my internet connection to my modem runs through the wall in the living room that leads to outside and that's obviously you know where the internet connections come from

So, modem in living room with wifi, reason why its in my living room is so that my receiver (cable box for tv) can be connected to the internet so I can watch tv, cant move to my room because the cable for the connection runs through a hole in my living room wall, and I have a second router I want to use to use for port forwarding on the network and so that I can just get quicker speeds in my room, and I want to use ICS in windows to share my PC's internet connection, wifi, to my second router

I could connect the router to my isp's router/modem in my living room and just share my main modems connection with my second router, but I don't want to be moving cords and things around behind my tv to plug the router, and I don't think I even have a free outlet available to plug something in behind my living room tv

I don't know if you still understand what Im trying to say, but yeah.
If you don't really understand what I just said in the first parts, then just answer:

I want to plug in a router into my PC's lan port, you know, plugging in an Ethernet cable into the router, on the wan port, or one of the lan ports on the router, then to the lan port of my pc, good, they're all connected. Can I share my PC's internet connection (wifi) to my router with windows internet connection sharing?

I made a mistake in my main writing at the top I said something like "my modem/router is in my living room so my internet service can connect to it via Ethernet." I meant to say this: "My router/modem is in my living room so my tv service can connect to it via Ethernet, into the cable box"
 
wouldnt the obvious solution be run an ethernet cable from the living room to your pc?

i have the same set up and thats what i did

though think what you mean is technically possible but would depend on the actual routers being used i seem to recall thinking along the same lines

but turned out my routers(had a spare one) wouldnt do it--BT home hubs so i just ran ethernet
 

USAFRet

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You could be right.
Don't do anything, but you could do it like that.

Another router in that same room gets exactly the same signal quality as the USB WiFi on the PC, so no benefit there.
Port forwarding would need to be done on the main router anyway, so no benefit there either.
 



lol i didnt say it was a good idea to do it just that i think thats what they mean

to me--and i did--just run an ethernet cable from router in living room
 

ChaoticWolf

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I could run an Ethernet cable from the main router in my living room to the second one so they both connect to each other
But I wouldn't want a long Ethernet cable running through the house

So,
Modem/Router in living room > WiFi on PC > Second router
Something like that.

I think I might just try doing this and check back with you guys, if it works then yeah, if not, then im kind of stuck here
I wish I could explain it in the clearest way possible to you guys, but I cant....
oh well, im just gonna try this tomorrow and see if it works..
 

USAFRet

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It can't work like that.
Your PC would have to be downstream from the second router.
 

USAFRet

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The key word in the port forwarding concept is "forward"
The router needs to send the data "forward", to the right port on next device in the chain. Which would be the PC.
Not "port backward".

You see what I'm describing?
 
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