Router to Router setup help

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My Brother was experiencing very poor wireless signal due to Obstruction[Thick walls] and possibly interference.

The router I'm currently using is NetGear WGR614 v9 and I had WGR614 v6 spare .
I thought about using Wireless Repeating between them but they only support WEP encryption in that mode and I dislike using WEP.

So I ran a LAN cable from the v9 through the main wall to the v6.

I need some help with the setup. I've no idea if this is the proper way to do it.
I should probably mention that the v9 is connected to a Cisco EPC2203 cable Modem.

The setup of both routers are as:
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The DNS of v6 the second router is OpenDNS.

Should I turn off NAT filter on the second router? Anything else I need to change/enable?
 
Have a look at this Netgear KB article.

The main points are to disable the dhcp server on the second router, and to connect LAN to LAN (ignore the WAN port of the second router).

If you do connect LAN to WAN (which can also work if you accept the potential routing issues) configure the dhcp server on the second router to have a different subnet than the first router. You can leave the WAN settings for the second router at dynamic/automatic and it should pick up workable settings from the dhcp server on first router.
 
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On the 2nd router you have set the WAN IP address as 192.168.1.12. That's why you're getting the error.

Why are you having the second router use open DNS?

If you put the 2nd router internet IP back to auto then change the LAN IP it'll work. Change it to something like 192.168.0.2 or else the IP willl conflict with the 1st router. Assuming it's 192.168.0.1 as default. Turn DHCP off on the 2nd router too & NAT.

On the first router put in the 2nd router details under address reservation, although I'm not sure if this is needed.
 
As above, the WAN settings for the second router don't matter so long as they don't clash with the LAN side. The easiest solution is to put them all back to automatic/dynamic.

For ease of configuration either configure the second router to have an IP in the same subnet as the first router (but outside its DHCP pool), or use the address reservation facility of the first router to achieve the same.

Disable the DHCP server of the second router. You can also disable NAT (although it shouldn't matter).

Connect them LAN to LAN and enjoy.
 
bremen1874 said:
As above, the WAN settings for the second router don't matter so long as they don't clash with the LAN side. The easiest solution is to put them all back to automatic/dynamic.

For ease of configuration either configure the second router to have an IP in the same subnet as the first router (but outside its DHCP pool), or use the address reservation facility of the first router to achieve the same.

Disable the DHCP server of the second router. You can also disable NAT (although it shouldn't matter).

Connect them LAN to LAN and enjoy.
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This ^.

If you try setting it up as the method your trying to do, you'll run into port issues with client/server software, and you make port forwarding twice as awkward as it already is.

Set DHCP to work through a range 192.168.0.3 to 192.168.0.254 on the first router connected to modem.
Manually assign first router as 192.168.0.1
2nd router as 192.168.0.2
Turn off NAT/FIREWALL/UPNP/DHCP on 2nd router since it doesn't need them running, and you'll never need to access it's logs so don't worry about setting time etc.
 
Thank you all so much:D;):D

Its working perfectly now with one Router handling all DHCP.

I know this problem could have been solved by a wireless N router but I much prefer this way.

Also saves me upgrading all the G adapters cos if there is even one on the network it has to use G right?
 
The latest high-end N kit with multiple antennas can still run N clients even with G clients connected, albeit with some performance hit.

One more thing if you have high-bandwidth wifi clients connected to both routers, then you'll get better performance by using non-overlapping channels; assuming you won't get interference from neighbours' wifi.
 
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