I am failing to add router to my network?

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My main router is an ASUS DSL-N55U

I have a fairly sizeable network setup and its fine for the most part.


The ASUS Modem router has 4 cables from it

1 - Main PC
2 - Home Plug
: There is 3 more of them
: 1 - To my Media PC
: 2 - To my Sons Bedroom
: 3 - To my Daughters Bedroom

3 - Switch 1 - This is in the Garden, and contains all my NAS Drives
4 - Switch 2 - This is in the LAN Room and has all my game PCs

The setup works great.

Now, I am trying to add a second router.

There are a couple of reasons behind this.

The second router, I am putting with my Media PC, because I also have an XBOX360 and a PS4 there, and so, I want to have those 2, plus the Media PC all connected to this second router.

A switch will do the job, of course it will, but I dont want to spend any more money and I have loads of spare routers. I also want to add another Mini wireless access point to it too, and that will be in teh front living room window, so we can have internet access from the front garden ( The asus is not powerful enough )

The thing is, that I set everything up, and this is where it gets stupid...

Laptops can access the second router, but they dotn get access to internet.

The ASUS sees the laptops, and so they ARE connected through the second router ( I have disabled the ASUS wireless just for testing purposes ) but they just wont access the internet at all?

I have tried a fair number of routers and they all have the same problem.

In a similar way, the ASUS I bought as a replacement and the older routers all work fine instead of the asus

So, it must be a setting in teh asus then surely?

But where is that setting?

Can anyone understand my problem?

If so, can you help me?

Thanks in advance.
 
I'm pretty sure you're going to have DHCP issues which is why you're not connecting. I'd have thought a plain old switch would work better for what you want?
 
DHCP off on the second router. Default gateway set to the address of the first router. Make sure the Ethernet cable from the first router to the second isn't plugged into the WAN port. Make sure the IP of the second router is in the same subnet but a different ip to the first router.
 
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Yes, I see where you could assume that, however a few things dont add up

1 - Among the routers that I am trying to add is the Linksys WRT54GL with the DD Firmware, and not only that, but its using the 5th port as a swicth port rather than the "to the Modem" port.
Similarly, the ASUS is defaulting to 192.168.1.1 as does the NegGear DGN3500 and DGN1000 and both those netgears do not have the issues and I can add a second router to the network. The ASUS however I bought as a solution to the issues I was getting with the DGN3500 ( I have had a single issue with the DGN1000 but with the rest of my LAN being Gigabit and N300, I wont go back to 100/N150 )

And also, as I said, the ASUS sees any other PCs connected, even when they are connected to the second Router, they show up in the connected clients list in the ASUS but they wont access the internet?

This is NOT only through wireless of course... It also has the issues through Wired too!
 
Nymins said:
DHCP off on the second router. Default gateway set to the address of the first router. Make sure the Ethernet cable from the first router to the second isn't plugged into the WAN port.
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Tried it.

Will give it another shot though... I may be wrong.
 
If it can't access the internet it sounds like the default gateway isn't set correctly. Check the devices on the second router with ipconfig /all and see what settings they are getting
 
Hmm?

Everything seems fine now.

I have just shut the lot down, including Router, Switches, PCs and everything in between, below and around, and started it all back up and its working fine.

Must be a combination if me and my inability to think straight, but it seems to be working now.
I think half the problem was that I was swapping this that and the other devices without giving the chance to actually set itself up properly, or maybe the ASSU simply needed a restart. Probably one or the other.

Many thanks.

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With ipconfig, the router was sometimes simply not giving me the default gateway IP and sure enough, that does imply that its not seeing the ASUS, but the ASUS showing me both the Media PC ( Ethernet ) and the test Laptop ( Elitebook ) in its list of connected devices was driving me cuckoo.

Again, many thanks.
 
Yeah, absolutely.

Its got... I have moved over to gigabit over time and it was only really a few months ago that I finished.

Although in a mode of blatant lying, the HomePlugs are of course crippling the speeds.

My Media PC and around there, while having a cable to a HomePlug, this is not actually being used, instead I have a long ethernet cable trailing under the carpet into the router, so yeah, thats all Gigabit, and as for the other 2 that are in the kids bedrooms, they are limited for sure, but they are fine for their needs.

I may splash out one day on much faster Homeplugs, but not until I actually need to.

Thankfully, even though my old ICYBOX NAS boxes said they were Gigabit, the speeds were dialup level. These cheap DLINK ones Im using now are amazing, and quick as hell, so Im chuffed to buggery.

Especially as the server is currently not actually serving anything.
 
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