Using an ADSL Router As A Switch

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Hi,

I have a mate who has got a Sky ADSL Modem/Router in his bedroom which is where the only phone socket is in the house.

He has a computer plugged in upstairs and uses one of the other ethernet ports to run a cat5 cable down through the wall into his playstation 3.

He now wants Sky Anytime+ connected and an HTPC downstairs, He's got an old 4 port adsl router that I said he could connect the wire coming from the upstairs router straight into the back of the old router and then have another 2 ethernet cables come out of it straight into the sky and the new htpc which should work (using just the switch part of the router)

However the PC is on vista and it says unidentified network and he has no internet access.

I have turned off DHCP in the downstairs router and set the IP of it so its in the same domain eg 192.168.1.100 but it still doesnt work.

Am I doing anything wrong or missing something?
 
lol love the epic pic.

yes thats basically what im trying to do altough because i disabled the dhcp maybe vista being vista didnt identify the network because of that.

I'll re-enable dhcp from 192.168.1.175 - 195 so they dont conflict and retry.

cheers for your inputs lads much apprecaited, will post back if it works ok

:)
 
Ryan111 said:
First, go to 192.168.1.XX (Whatever the main upstairs router is) and change the DHCP range to 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.200


Factory reset the second router then

Go to http://192.168.XX.XX (Whatever the second routers IP address is) and change the following;

Lan IP address : 192.168.1.XX (If the main router is .1, then put this as .2)

Then disable DHCP on the second router

Apply all settings

Plug a cable between the two routers and hey presto, you should be able to access the internet/LAN from both wireless's and both lan ports

You should now be able to browse to 192.168.1.XX and get both of the routers status pages.

You can now set up your wireless settings on the second router.
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Thanks but that is exactly what I done, the Vista machine downstairs does not recognise the network.

I'm assuming because DHCP is off on the downstairs router.
 
yes ive tried to get the vista machine to collect the ip address from the upstairs router but it just comes up unidentified network and doesnt collect it, the two routers are on different ip's but in the same subnet.

im assuming its something to do with Vista because im sure i have the routers setup correctly.

im seeing the chap tonight so will set both routers as dhcp servers but set them to give out different ip address sets so there is no conflict and post back.

cheers for all your help :)
 
im not there at the moment to try it but when just the upstairs router is set as the dhcp server i get an exclamation over the network icon and after a while it gives out a private address range of 169.x.x.x
 
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