2nd Router

frostycore · 18 Jan 2009 at 12:53

Here's the deal guys, I live in a house where the landlord doesn't want to enable wireless on their router so they have installed a hardware connection point into each room. However, I want to be able to use my laptop on the internet together with my desktop so is it possible to plug my router into the existing connection which will then have wireless?

swinnie · 18 Jan 2009 at 13:03

You would need to know the information for the internet connection.

What you could do, is use your router as an 'access point'. Just disable NAT, DHCP and DNS servers, give it a static IP and you're good to go I think.

smids · 18 Jan 2009 at 15:27

Yep - as above, you'll need a Wireless access point or router configured to run as such. I would suggest something like a Linksys WRT54GL for this purpose (flashed with a good third party firmware like DD-WRT).

tolien · 18 Jan 2009 at 18:43

smids said:
Yep - as above, you'll need a Wireless access point or router configured to run as such. I would suggest something like a Linksys WRT54GL for this purpose (flashed with a good third party firmware like DD-WRT).

You don't. Just plugin one of the router's switch ports into the port you've got, and the wireless will work through there. Just disable DHCP as swinnie said.

smids · 18 Jan 2009 at 19:17

tolien said:
You don't. Just plugin one of the router's switch ports into the port you've got, and the wireless will work through there. Just disable DHCP as swinnie said.

Missed the fact he already had a router. In which case it is plug, configure and go

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frostycore · 20 Jan 2009 at 23:12

Ok thanks guys, i'll give it a try!