Two router setup, is it possible and how to do it?

Freddie589

Freddie589

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i have two routers one is a DLINK-DL-514 and one is a Virgin Media Hub modem router, this is the wifi that my house uses

  • I game heavily in my room
  • my brother plays COD online in the living room
  • theres a laptop in the kitchen for general browsing
  • my iphone
  • dads ipod

before the Xbox i used to get 20MB in my room but now i only get 5 :O, is their a way i can make the two routers work together and connect the Xbox the to DLINK laptop iphone etc... and my PC to the V-Hub?

more details:

  • the D-LINK hub is not in use at the mo
  • im using the virgin hub on two PC's via ethernet
  • i have lots of Ethernet cables :)
  • the V-Hub uses coxial and the Dlink does not but the d-link has a WAN input
 
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You'd only be able to use the d-link as a switch assuming you turn off DHCP etc... which is the only way your going to get them to work together..
 
It is possible. I have a netgear router downstairs and a d-link router upstairs connecting wirelessly. There is a custom firmware you can flash(cant remember the name, someone else may have posted it before i can post this lol) but it will allow you to use multiple routers on 1 network by making one a DHCP server and the second not DHCP but to connect to your primary router

You just set the second router as a bridge and you can use that as a second wireless and wired router


EDIT: Google "DD-WRT" its the firmware you need ;)
 
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If the D-Link has a WAN input, its likely that it will add a further "NAT layer", I'd be inclined to disable DHCP and simply plug the cable from your main router into a normal ethernet port on the new one.

You should not need custom firmware to disable DHCP - many routers have this option.
 
If it's a VM super hub then you can switch off the router side and just use it as a normal cable modem. And then you'd use your 514 as the router.
 
At the moment I have:

Internet -> [asdsl, router, switch] -> [router] -> [router, switch]

with a few devices hanging off each switch.

That is, three dhcp servers in a chain. One's an all-in-one thomson that came free from Be, one is a cable router, and the thing in the middle only has two ethernet cards but is nonetheless running a dhcp server. I'm messing around with the box in the middle, with an eye to disabling dhcp on the two all-in-one efforts in the future.

This is a foolish set up, but it does work. There's no problem at all having lots of dhcp routers. I believe they're set up using 192.168.1.*, 192.168.5.* and 192.168.0.*. It's much simpler if you just tell one of them to behave as a switch, but it isn't required.
 
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