Connect wireless router to wired router?

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Hi all,

I am installing a network at home. I'll have my cable modem plugged
into a wired router (probably a little SMC unit). I'll put a network
card in my desktop PC that's sitting right there. I've run a Cat 5E
cable to the middle of my house where I'd like to install a wireless
access point. I'm not confident that I'll have speedy coverage
everywhere if I keep the WAP in the far corner of my house.

Here's my question: I have access to a Linksys wireless router. Can I
use that as the access point and just disable the routing and other
features that my wired router will be providing? Would I plug the Cat
5 into one of the LAN ports on my wired router and into the WAN port
on the wireless router? Any other tips or suggestions to make this
work better?

Thanks for any help you can give me. I've poked around the past
postings and I think I can do this but I just wanted to ask one more
time.

Thanks again,
Chris I.
Clearwater, FL
 
CSI said:
Hi all,

I am installing a network at home. I'll have my cable modem plugged
into a wired router (probably a little SMC unit). I'll put a network
card in my desktop PC that's sitting right there. I've run a Cat 5E
cable to the middle of my house where I'd like to install a wireless
access point. I'm not confident that I'll have speedy coverage
everywhere if I keep the WAP in the far corner of my house.

Here's my question: I have access to a Linksys wireless router. Can I
use that as the access point and just disable the routing and other
features that my wired router will be providing? Would I plug the Cat
5 into one of the LAN ports on my wired router and into the WAN port
on the wireless router? Any other tips or suggestions to make this
work better?

Thanks for any help you can give me. I've poked around the past
postings and I think I can do this but I just wanted to ask one more
time.

Thanks again,
Chris I.
Clearwater, FL
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Sounds good so far. Not sure if you will need to disable anything on the
wireless router. Just plug everything in and see if any problems develop.
If they do, post back for possible solutions.

Jerry P.
 
I have a setup like this at home with two routers. The key is disabling
DHCP on the wireless access point, if you have two DHCP servers it will
prove problematic as it did for me. You run a cable from the uplink port on
the wireless access point to any normal port on the wired router. It should
all work well after that.

Ken
 
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