How to interconnect wireless routers

[Lampooner]

I read the article on keeping your G router and hooking it up in conjunction with a new N router. My question is how do you do that? I assume you need a cross-over cable and you must make sure they are not assigning the same IP addresses. Can anyone point me to step by stewp instructions.

Thanks

 

[scotty]

You basically just turn one of the two wireless routers into an access point. To do this, just disable DHCP on it and give it a different address than the other one.

 

[Lampooner]

Interconnecting

Hi Scotty,

Thanks for the quick response. Just to be sure I do need a cross-over cable between the two?

Thanks again

 

[thiggins]

How To Convert a Wireless Router into an Access Point
How To Add an Access Point to a Wireless Router

 

[Britgeezer]

Tim,

A thousand thanks, based on those two articles I think I can probably create and install an access point.

Maybe even make use of my WRT310N brick - 2 units have failed on me and I still have one.

I would like to use the same SSID - since I'm just trying to master a lower signal area from the DIR 825 for a resident WII. However, since it works I wouldn't bother to buy an AP - but a "project" is a different matter!

Now I know that as long as I watch for the "sticky issue" I can have the same SSID although maybe as you say a different SSID will have benefits - I did use a different SSID for 2.4 vs 5 GHZ.

Thanks - again.