Wireless router as access point?

I have 2 wireless routers, one is a d-link di514 and the other is a
belkin. I want to set up the d-link to be my main router, and have
the belkin be an access point in another room. Can I do this without
physically connecting the 2 routers via cat5? I put both routers on
the same SSID and channel, and disabled DHCP on the belkin. But I
can't seem to get the belkin to talk to the dlink without a cable.

Thanks in advance.


Matt McCracken

Matt McCracken wrote:

> I have 2 wireless routers, one is a d-link di514 and the other is a
> belkin. I want to set up the d-link to be my main router, and have
> the belkin be an access point in another room. Can I do this without
> physically connecting the 2 routers via cat5?

No, you cannot do it. You need to connect the two routers with a Cat 5 cable
LAN port to LAN port and enable the DHCP server on the non-gateway router
making it a wire/wireless switch AP.

Duane

Duane Arnold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
news:uGNsd.207911$R05.95148@attbi_s53:

> Matt McCracken wrote:
>
>> I have 2 wireless routers, one is a d-link di514 and the other is a
>> belkin. I want to set up the d-link to be my main router, and have
>> the belkin be an access point in another room. Can I do this without
>> physically connecting the 2 routers via cat5?
>
> No, you cannot do it. You need to connect the two routers with a Cat 5
> cable LAN port to LAN port and enable the DHCP server on the
> non-gateway router making it a wire/wireless switch AP.
>
> Duane
>

You can also see if the firmware supports a "Wireless Repeater" or
"Signal Repeater" mode. While this cuts throughput to 50% or less (see
post "Hawking antenna and Linksys WRE54G Expander" below), it is often a
perfectly acceptible solution for normal internet traffic on a home
wireless network. Linksys WAP54G supports this mode, and I imagine that
quite a few other routers/ap's support it nowadays.

The Chairman

Duane Arnold <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> Matt McCracken wrote:
>
> > I have 2 wireless routers, one is a d-link di514 and the other is a
> > belkin. I want to set up the d-link to be my main router, and have
> > the belkin be an access point in another room. Can I do this without
> > physically connecting the 2 routers via cat5?
>
> No, you cannot do it. You need to connect the two routers with a Cat 5 cable
> LAN port to LAN port and enable the DHCP server on the non-gateway router
^^^^^^
> making it a wire/wireless switch AP.

I think you mean *disable*. Otherwise, he'll have two DHCP servers on
the same subnet.