Doubts on connecting D-Link ADSL router with wireless router

haroldkian · #1 February 5th, 2006, 04:44 PM

I am trying to use my wireless laptop to connect to the internet, but i don know how to configure these 2 routers. can somebody help please?

bAdWaYz · #2 February 5th, 2006, 05:27 PM

Are you trying to use the laptop with one router or the other or do you have both routers connect to each other? If you are linking both routers is there a reason for it? What make, modle, and ver number are both routers? What make, model is the wireless adapter for the laptop? Are you trying to use WEP or WPA on the routers? What type of connection do you have eg "cable, dsl"?

haroldkian · #3 February 6th, 2006, 09:21 AM

I am trying to connect a D-Link ADSL router (DSL-500G) and the other wireless router (DI-624) togther. And i m using my laptop with wireless connection linking to the wireless router. I am not so sure of how to configure these 2 routers to make them work without disconnecting my internet connection after a random period of time. I am facing internet disconnection of my internet connection. And i cannot connect back by opening the IE browser. This problem came to my while i have the wireless router connected with the ADSL router.

bAdWaYz · #4 February 7th, 2006, 05:28 AM

I'm not really sure why you want to connect the two routers? Why not just use the one wireless router as that would make things easier to setup as well as more stable. Unless there is a very good reason I always advise clients not to link two routers over a home network. However if you must do this then you will need to config the 2nd router to act pretty much like a switch. You would give it a static ip address within the range of the first router. For example if router1 has an ip of 192.168.0.1 you would give router2 a static address of 192.168.0.2 and subnet mask of 255.255.255.0 and you can use the router1 as dns address or just enter the dns ip given by your ISP. Then you will want to turn off dhcp server on router2.

**smurfy** · #5 February 7th, 2006, 09:39 AM

Badwayz, it looks like the wireless router isn't an ADSL Router, just a wireless gateway.
So ADSL router connects to Wireless router. Wireless router connects to PCs.

In that case, would not plugging the ADSL router into the wireless router just make the ADSL hardware a modem/internet gateway only? The Wireless router then acts as the DHCP server for all the clients on the lan relying on an uplink to the ADSL router for the WAN?
I have mine config'd that way. Modem assigns router IP by DHCP (in 10.xx.xx.xx range). Router assigns LAN IP adresses by DHCP in 192.68.xx.xx range.

haroldkian · #6 February 7th, 2006, 09:31 PM

Smurfy was right, i used that way too. Finally, i am able to run both routers successfully. Thank you so much for that Smurfy. Anyway thanks for the advices from bAdWaYz too.

bAdWaYz · #7 February 7th, 2006, 11:25 PM

Glad you are happy and things are working for you haroldkian. As for what smurfy posted yes that will work, and apparently some folks do go that way. I see this sort of setup most times but instead of a full on wireless router people just get a wireless access point. That way you only have to worry about one dhcp server and one scope. With using a full on router you have two seperate dhcp servers but with two different scopes, and while that will work its a bit harder for the less tech savy to work out. However since this setup works for you then thats great news! Lord knows I have run a network with far less secure, stable, or even at times just all wrong.