Newbie: Using 2 Wireless Routers

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"Kurt Harless" <kharless@qwest.net> wrote in message
news:5l8wc.157$uh1.49253@news.uswest.net...
> Greetings,
>
> I have two ActionTec GT701WG routers and would like to configure my home
> network as follows;
>
> Place one router in my home office and a hub off of the single port on the
> router for my home office workstations.

Yeah, you can do that. The router 1 would be the gateway device for the LAN
and WAN.

> Place the other router in my living room connected to my XBox game
console.
> This router would act like a wireless bridge to the office router for
online
> gaming.

Yeah, you can do that too by disabling the DHCP server on the router and
connecting a cable from the LAN port on router 1 to a LAN port on router
2 --- no WAN port.

router 2 becomes a WAP/wire (switch) and wireless and wired machines will
get a DHCP IP from router 1.

> Use either one or both of the routers as hotspots for my laptop throughout
> the house.
>

I don't know if that will work and maybe you'll need to disable the
wireless on one router 1.

The norm I think is wired router ------ wireless/wired (router/a switch)
(WAP).

Duane