Wireless router through a wireless router?

cha0s900 · 18 May 2013 at 11:53

Hey guys do you know if its possible to connect a wireless router to another. I want to have one give a different SSID so i can have that to be a higher speed connection for me and the other one to be slower, but compatible with the families laptops and phones?

The routers are a Virgin Superhub (netgear) and an old Netgear WGT624v3. Id like to have the NetGear connect to the SuperHub. Thanks guys

bremen1874 · 18 May 2013 at 13:48

Configure the additional router as an access point using a different SSID and wireless channel. If you Google 'router as access point' you should find plenty of guides.

cha0s900 · 18 May 2013 at 15:49

bremen1874 said:
Configure the additional router as an access point using a different SSID and wireless channel. If you Google 'router as access point' you should find plenty of guides.

I have found these guides but by the looks of it, the first wireless router is used just for LAN. What im looking for is having two wireless router connections one at 2.4ghz for the family and the other a high speed 5ghz for my PC. They need different SSID's.

bremen1874 · 18 May 2013 at 20:05

If you want to add the wireless capabilities of the WGT624v3 to the network all you need to do is:-

Assign it a management IP that matches the the subnet you're using.
Disable its DHCP server.
Configure the wireless with the SSID and security settings you want to use.
Connect one of its LAN ports to a LAN port on the other router. Don't be tempted to use the WAN port.

This should be more-or-less what the online guides will have told you.