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Adding wireless router to a existing home/small office network |
by Dave Kezziah
Recently, I had a request to add wireless capability to a small network. They already had a non-wireless router and were not going to replace it with a wireless one, and they also had a wireless router, that they had already bought. So the problem was putting a second router on the network to broadcast the wireless signal without the 2 routers conflicting. This is what I did:
- Router1 has an IP address of 192.168.1.1 Wireless router out of the box has an IP address of 192.168.1.1
- Change the IP address of the Wireless router to 192.168.2.X I used 192.168.2.1 but you can use any number up to 254.
- Disable DHCP on the Wireless router to turn the router into an Wireless Access Point.
- Enable the strongest Encryption that you can for the wireless router, that is going to work for your network, at least 128 bit WEP
Cable the routers so that router 1 is hard wired into one of the ports on the wireless router, NOT into the WAN port. You can also go through a switch if needed.
So it will look like this
Router1-----> Switch (if needed) -----> Wireless Router ports 1-4, Not WAN
The wireless router should now be broadcastting a wireless signal for internet.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 04 October 2007 )
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