2 routers in a network.

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I have my cable connection going into my new router in my bedroom. I then decided to connect a long cable from the room to my shed which also has a router. The shed router is a Netgear WNR2000 and my bedroom router is new and is a Trendnet TEW-691GR.

When I connect the shed router to the cable I get internet on my connected devices. But I have an odd issue. I don't know too much about networking, but I thought I knew enough and set the shed router to static ip. My bedroom router information is:

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I set the router in the shed to a static ip of 192.168.10.110 with the dns as 255.255.255.0 and the gateway as 192.168.10.1. This gets me the internet fine and I can access the bedroom router config from the shed.
BUT, I want it to be the other way around also. If I go to my bedroom computer and go to 192.168.1.110 it times out. I just can't seem to get my head around this. Have I missed a vital step?
 
Two ways of doing this…

The first is to configure the two routers with different local subnets and then connect the second router to the first's network using its WAN port. This will work, but you’ll need to setup some static routes from the first network to the second (otherwise all the traffic will try to go via the default gateway). You’ll also need to ensure that the second router’s firewall isn’t blocking you.

The second (easier way) is to completely ignore the second routers WAN port and connect them LAN to LAN. Before you do this the second routers DHCP server will need disabling, and it’ll need assigning a suitable static IP address. Google ‘router as access point netgear’ or similar.
 
Managed to kind of fix the issue based on the information in this thread.
I set up the router with static ip, disabled DCHP and connected to LAN to LAN. At first I was happy since it all seemed to work. But then the internet in the shed went down, but I could still connect to the bedroom router. I rebooted the shed router and it came back. When my girlfriend got home from work and tried the house network on wireless her internet wouldn't work. I tried rebooting the bedroom router but nothing. But my iPad could connect fine.
After a while I gave up and pulled out the wire connecting the bedroom to the shed. The wireless then started working.
My brain is frazzled, any ideas to all this?
 
R1=Trendnet TEW-691GR
R2=Netgear WNR2000
On R1:
  • connect from R1 LAN to R2 LAN port
  • Reserve an IP address for R2 in the DHCP pool.
On R2:
  • disable DHCP
It should work, I've got the same setup but with different routers and it works.
 
Thanks everyone so much for advice. Before I had a chance to read the past post here, I dusted off an old netgear switch I had and everything works perfectly. I can view my ip camera around the house which I couldn't do before and no internet issues.
 
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