Tuesday, February 21, 2006
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I'll start this post by saying, I have not googled this yet, nor have I really applied a ton of effort to solve this problem. I figured that someone may have had experience in doing what I'd like to do with my home network.

With a bunch of different devices that need TCP/IP internet connectivitiy, and some different hardware mixed in, I'm challenged to solve this problem. Any help from anyone would be great. I'm really looking for the settings I'd need to input into the two routers, specifics.

So the problem is I have two routers each on their own network, a wired 192.168.1.1, and a wireless access point 192.168.2.1. Now you may ask, why not just have a wireless network? Two reasons, reason 1: Where my cable modem is located is probably the worst place in my entire house as far as wireless coverage goes, reason 2: I needed more than 4 ports on my router to plug into.

So my solution at the time was an 8 port wired router, plugged into one of the ports a fair distance away is my wireless router, in a location that services my wireless devices as I needed. See the diagram below, and please post any ideas/solutions you have.

Again, the goal is to get all the devices on a unified network 192.168.1.1, while still allowing my wireless access point to hand out addresses as needed to devices that connect w/ the proper WEP and security credentials. If you have any ideas on what I can do, please post specifics in the comments section!

Thanks!


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