Making 2x Speedtouch play nice

[WolfR1der]

To cut a very long and frustrating story short, wi-fi in my house is terrible and I'm thinking Homeplug adaptors are the way forward.
My plan is to have two Speedtouch 585's (a v5 and a v6) each on separate floors connected by the Homeplugs.
However sharing internet from one to the other has proved bothersome in the past; what do I have to set up in relation to DHCP, (DNS?) etc. so that addresses across the network are properly assigned by one box and I can access the config UI of each separately?


The connection to my house seems also rather ropey, dropping fairly often. My old Voyager 2000 modem seemed to ignore this, or reconnect automatically. The Speedtouch seems much more sensitive, dropping often and never reconnecting by itself. Is there something I can tweak in the CLI to get it to keep trying until it can pick up a connection again?

Current Linestats are;
Bandwidth (Up/Down) [kbps/kbps]: 448 / 3,776
Output Power (Up/Down) [dBm]: 11.5 / 19.0
Line Attenuation (Up/Down) [dB]: 22.0 / 43.0
SN Margin (Up/Down) [dB]: 18.0 / 4.5

Plus a boatload of Local errors.

Any help or pointers with either would be very much appreciated; I'm about ready to start smashing keyboards with my face by this point...

 

[tolien]

Switch off DHCP on the one that isn't connected to the phone line, and change its IP address to one that's in the same subnet but different from the other router.
Then all you need is a pair of Homeplugs, connected to a switch port on both.