[Discuss] Attaching wireless router to normal router outboard?

[brent sirna]

----- Original Message -----
From: Larry Gagnon <lggagnon at uniserve.com>
Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008 9:16 am
Subject: [Discuss] Attaching wireless router to normal router outboard?

> Here's the thing: I live in a concrete and steel house, with lots 
> of rebar  
> in the walls - very unusual Art Moderne architecture. Anyways, 
> radio waves  
> don't travel around this house too well needless to say (as 
> evidenced by  
> 2.4GHz cordless phones which don't work all around the house).
> 
> Anyways, I would like to try wireless in the house (presently I 
> have  
> network cables to 3 rooms), just to see if it is at all possible. I 
> don't  
> want to mess up my present non-wireless router (a D-Link DI-604). 
> Is there  
> any way attaching a wireless router to a LAN port on the D-Link 
> router  
> itself would actually work? Would I be able to get a viable 
> internet  
> connection using a two router setup like this? If so, how do I do it?
> 
> 
> Larry Gagnon
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Hi Larry,

If I get what you are saying you would setup the second router so it did not use it's firewall and DHCP functionality. It would just pass through all the packets to your main firewall. We have that current configuration here with a linksys wireless router talking to a SMC router.

Brent