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Matt McCracken wrote:
> I have 2 wireless routers, one is a d-link di514 and the other is a
> belkin. I want to set up the d-link to be my main router, and have
> the belkin be an access point in another room. Can I do this without
> physically connecting the 2 routers via cat5?
No, you cannot do it. You need to connect the two routers with a Cat 5 cable
LAN port to LAN port and enable the DHCP server on the non-gateway router
making it a wire/wireless switch AP.
Duane 
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