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Wireless routers and a hardware firewall

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do you want the PC on the two wireless networks to be able to see each other?

If so, you can name the SSID different but still be on the same network by disabling the second router's DHCP, change the LAN IP address, and connect the network cable to one of the four LAN ports.

Otherwise you could assign a static IP to the second router based on the Cisco's IP scheme and set that IP into the DMZ on the Cisco should you experience problems
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I do not want the laptops to see each other. They should be on two different networks.

Not sure how this setup will work.

Uverse router is using NAT ---> going to a Cisco firewall ---> going to a wireless router using NAT.

I have heard double NATing breaks some protocols.

If you're trying to use one wireless router to split it up, unless the thing can do multiple SSIDs, then no, you can't. You'd need two wireless routers. Once that's done, you wouldn't really need the FW anymore unless you want that extra security there.

In that scenario it would be:

Router
|
FW-->WiFi
|
WiFi

Otherwise, just hang two wireless routers off the uverse router if it has the ports to do so.

I can't see how else you'd do that simply.
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