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ShellNZ: OK.....I know yer not all gonna believe this but Im going to add another contraption to the works, hehe.
The Linksys WAG320N wireless is not working so well since it has been upstairs, hubby has to pretty much stand on one leg with his left arm in the air and hold the laptop with other hand to get a good signal. iPhone well and truly struggles as well.
Yes, welcome to wifi's over inflated claims to range and thruput there.
Decided to grab another router/switch to add to the mix so got the TP-Link TL-WR1043ND (300Mbps Ultimate Wireless N Gigabit router).
Fiddled around for a couple of hours but dont seem to be able to get it.
Will keep Linksys at 192.168.1.1 and unfort the TP-Link uses same default so have changed it to 192.168.2.1, well I think I have anyways as at one point I did get access to the config page and changed it in the LAN settings.
So I also turn off DHCP on the Linksys correct? And put the cable into a lan port instead of WAN so its effectively acting like a bridge to the TP-Link?
Cheers for any and all help again fellas :) Promise I wont bother you all again for the rest of the year!!!!
Keep DHCP on whatever device is connected to the ADSL, the secondary router is where you turn it off.
you want it in the same range as the other router so you can still access it. I usually start the assignments for things that I do manually at the top and work down, so 192.168.1.254. Not all routers will let you put a gateway in on the LAN, since they assume that they will be the gateway. No big deal if you dont, it just means that the router itself will not have internet, and it doesnt really need it anyway.
Turn off uPNP on the second (and any additional routers too), as otherwise it will be advertising itself on the network and preventing the real router doing portfowards etc.
Make sure you match encrption settings between routers too, particually the WPA mode (WPA/WPA2, TKIP etc)
