Is it possible to plug a router's uplink into the port of another router? I wish to use a wireless router and a wired router at the same time. Thanks.
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Is it possible to plug a router's uplink into the port of another router? I wish to use a wireless router and a wired router at the same time. Thanks.
Yes, plug uplink to regular port. Disable things like DHCP on all but one
of the routers, or else you could get conflicts.
Yes, it's possible. Just set the gateway of the second router to the IP address of the first router. Everything else should be set up as DHCP, so everything else should work automatically.
You can have 2 routers but you will have to decide which one you want to be your DHCP server, disable DHCP on the other routerand change the IP address so that is on the same network (e.g..192.168.1.x) I reccomend assinging it an address that is outside the range of the starting address of the DHCP server.
If you already have a hard wired router then just get a wireless access point and make it easy on yourself or just sell the hard wired router to a friend that needs/wants one and just get the wireless one since you can connect wired and wireless computers on it.
Aren't they BOTH servers? One accesses the ISP...and the other accesses the other router.
I've never had to do this. Just hook them up...and they work fine.
Have a nice week...