Connecting a router to a wireless gateway

RightOne

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Hi guys,

I recently moved from a farmhouse in the UK which had slow ADSL, to an apartment in Serbia which has high speed cable access.

The provider for my broadband in Serbia, SSB, provided me with a cable modem wireless gateway, model Cisco epc3925. This was good at first, but I soon realised that the wireless signal is fairly poor, and I couldn't move the cable modem practically because in its current place is where the only cable outlet is.

I decided to buy a Belkin N600 DB, and placed it more or less central in apartment using an ethernet cable from the cisco Wireless Gateway to the WAN port in the Belkin. It works, but I have a few questions:

Apparently I am supposed to turn off DCHP on either the Cisco gateway, or the Belkin. Which one am I supposed to turn the DCHP off on?

Are there any other procedures I should follow when adding a wireless router to a wireless gateway modem? I have of course already disabled wireless ability on the gateway and used only the wireless from the Belkin
 
You'd only disable DHCP on the second router if you're manually configuring it as an AP (Access Point). If that's what you were doing then you'd need to connect it via one of the LAN ports rather than the WAN port.

As you're connecting via the WAN port you should be fine (unless you have something that doesn't like 'Double NAT').
 
bremen1874 said:
You'd only disable DHCP on the second router if you're manually configuring it as an AP (Access Point). If that's what you were doing then you'd need to connect it via one of the LAN ports rather than the WAN port.

As you're connecting via the WAN port you should be fine (unless you have something that doesn't like 'Double NAT').
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Okay, thanks for the reply.

Is there any advantage to setting the second router as an access point?
 
Hi,

I need some more help with my network.

Basically, my ISP, who are SBB, have put me on an internet package which has 120mb/s download.

Today I realised that whichever device I use, and at whatever range, I never pull over 45-50mb/s from the Belkin which is connected as an access point to the Cisco.

I decided to physically move my PC setup and plugged it into the Ethernet cable which is going to the Belkin from the Cisco. No matter how hard I tried, I could not get it to work in 1Gb. I decided to try a spare, albeit very short, ethernet cable, and that worked at 1Gb. With this setup, I pulled 97 mb/s on the download, which had my jaw dropping right down to the ground.

I have now found out that the Belkin's WAN and 4 ethernet ports are all rated at 100 mbs.

My question really is - on a 100mbs cable going to the Belkin that's ports are rated at 100 mbs, should I be able to pull more than 45-50 on my wifi devices?

Apologies for the long winded explanation, I just want to make sure that you know what I am talking about, I tried calling SBB but they only speak Serbian, which I cannot speak.
 
Just to add - I bought the Belkin in the UK before coming out here so returning it is not an option.

I am willing to buy a new cat6 Ethernet cable and a new TP-Link TL-WR1043ND 300Mbps router if the lack of Gigabit on my current setup is the real problem.

Also, I have tried to use Powerline adapters, they don't work. Also, running an ethernet cable from the Cisco to my PC setup would take a good 30m of cable and would look aesthetically awful.
 
I wouldn't expect a TL-WR1043ND to perform any better than the Belkin for wireless. If you want anywhere near the full connection speed you're going to need to be looking at 5GHz kit, probably 802.11ac (router and clients).
 
Hiya,

Thank you so much for the help.

I am now trying to just maximise the speed that I can get across the wifi, because as I mentioned, my PC can't be reached by physical wire nor Powerlines.

There are two possibilities for me now. On sale here in Serbia I have seen the router ASUS RT-N66U. This seems like a good router to me. I have also seen a cat6 cable, so everything will be Gigabit.

Over 2.4ghz Wireless N, am I realistically going to reach the full 97 mbs (+-10mbs)? The router will be about 8-10m from the PC with a door inbetween and not in line-of-sight

If the 5ghz is better then I am willing to also purchase a wifi dongle which is 5ghz capable - can you recommend one (if I need to go 5ghz)?

Again, thank you so much for your help and expertise - it is helping me justify a 120mbps connection lol :)
 
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