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Two wireless router connected with same class of ip address

Hi,

i have building with two wireless routers with different brand
one router is on ground floor and other one is in first floor and they are connecte wiht cabel but now i want both router have same class of ip addres like

Router een 192.168.0.100 this wireless router is connected to the internet

Router twee 192.168.0.101

Thanks

John

Connect a LAN port on the wireless router to a LAN connection on your network. Go to the wireless configuration, give it a static IP on your network and turn DHCP off. Now your wireless router will be an extension of your network.

Do the same thing for the other wireless router (different static IP address) and the two routers will be extensions of your network.

.... Thinkpads_User

Babak01

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Thanks ,

One more question that i have is if i turn my DHCP of on my bout router can my mobile an my laptop connected to wireless lan without DHCP on router or not ?

Sajid Shaik M

ok log on to the router and change the lan IP of each router...

on both routers change the DHCP scope...

i.e Router 1 192.168.0.100 scope 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.0.99

router 2 192.168.0.101 DHCP scope 192.168.1.102 to 192.168.1.254

all the best

John

Your mobile can get DHCP from the main network. I do that with my iPhone and it works just fine.

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Sajid Shaik M

if DHCP is disable still the wlan is under brodcasting ..

that means if you provide the lan ip manually and give the authentication hence they will be in the same network and they can comunicate with each other..

computrex

Don't turn on dhcp on both. Just one with the config Thinkpads suggested. That would be bad. The router without dhcp will pick it up from the other router. Both routers are on the same subnet.

-mike

Darr247

> if i turn my DHCP of on my bout router

Don't turn off DHCP on BOTH routers, only on the 192.168.0.101 router. Devices that connect to the 192.168.0.101 router will get a DHCP address from the 192.168.0.100 router through the LAN to LAN connection.

Note that connected LAN to LAN, the 192.168.0.101 address will be used only to access that router's setup menus, not any type of routing... the DHCP server in 192.168.0.100 should give all clients it serves a Gateway IP of 192.168.0.100.
192.168.0.101 will effectively be a wireless hub and a wired switch combo.

Babak01

ASKER

Merci

John

You can do this with DHCP OFF on both routers the way I suggested and both routers will be extensions of your network.

You can do it the way Darr suggested, and that can work as well, but it is a different way to the first way.

Just keep track of which way you are working.

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Darr247

Ahhhh... It wasn't clear from anything the poster has said here that the LAN was *not* getting DHCP from the first router. :)

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When ever you need to have more than one WAP you must first make sure that DHCP is off on all but one Router/WAP.

All the WAP can use the Same SSId and Password that way when you move from one area to another you will stay connected.

DHCP by default is turned on on every device sold to individuals. Most do not have network experience so thats why they do it. One only need to plug it in and ou now have ip addresses being assign.

When you add another network device WAP Router etc you must turn off DHCP or you will have issues.

Hope this helped explain things