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Posted by glen herrmannsfeldt on January 25, 2006, 11:25 pm
Charles Wahl wrote:
> I have a DSL home ethernet LAN using one Linksys WRT54G router with
> wireless features turned on, but the signal at the far end of the
> apartment is dodgy for laptop use. I don't want to relocate the main
> router, but have the opportunity to get a second WRT54G cheap. Can I
> configure a second one as a slave (access point), and have wireless
> connection served by either one of the devices? The two routers would not
> communicate wirelessly, but by CAT5.
That sounds fine to me.
> I realize that I need to turn off the DHCP server function on the "slave,"
> is there anything else I need to do? Should each router be set to use a
> different wireless channel, or the same one?
Why not use DHCP on the second? It does need to be a different
(sub)net, though. I would probably static address the WAN port of
the second, but it could even be done through DHCP.
> I assume that it would be okay to connect more devices/computers to the
> second "slave" router via CAT5 as well; is that true?
Yes, that should work fine.
By the way, these are more TCP/IP question and not ethernet
questions so should probably go to comp.protocols.tcp-ip
-- glen
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