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rojkind

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#10426 21-Nov-2006 22:15

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hey i have two d-link routers, one is a modem/router and the other is just a wireless router the modem/router is a dsl-502t and the wireless router is di-624. The internet works fine when a computer is directly conected from the modem/router to a computer and i get good speeds, but when a computer is conected to the ethernet port on the wireless router the speed is very slow/fast i dont know how to explain this but i can be surfing the net and it might take 2 mins to load a page and maybe 2 secs to open the next i know the pages arent saved in the cache but it has something to do with the wireless router. Does any one know how i can set them both up i have tried to set up the modem/router as a bridge but it wont work. any help would be apreciated.

many thanks,

dan

raytaylor

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#53313 22-Nov-2006 23:50

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Ok.
Here is how i would do it.

- Router 1 is connected to the internet via its internal DSL modem. It's ethernet port has the ip address 192.168.1.1. It has its built in dchp server turned on so it will dish out ip addresses between 192.168.1.10 and 192.168.1.250

If you plug your computer in and set it's tcpip settings to automatic address, etc it should work fine automatically. It should be given an ip address by router 1 between 192.168.1.10 and 1.250
Now we plug the ethernet port of Router 1 directly into the ethernet port number 2 of router 2

- Router 2 has the IP address 192.168.1.2 and its internal dchp server is turned off. By doing this we are making it simply a switching hub.

If you plug your computer into ethernet port 3 on router 2 then it should work perfectly at full speed. It should be given an ip address by router 1 between 192.168.1.10 and 1.250.
The idea is that we do not want router 2 to auctually do any routing. We just want to use it like a double plug at this point.

You will then have to go into the web interface and set up router 2's access point mode to be an AP so that what ever connects to it wirelessly will be passed straight onto the network without any routing. Basically its acting like a $100 accesspoint - joining wireless clients onto the wired network. Here is a quick diagram:

Hope this helps, it should get you started.

Ray Taylor

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