I have two linksys routers and would like to connect the two of them together wireless.
2007-01-16 05:58:59 · 4 answers · asked by Marcus J 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
Are you asking about having 2 wireless routers on your WLAN? Absolutely. I do this myself in one of my home networks. There are a couple ways to do this depending on how you configure them. If you want to have 2 wireless routers on your home network, then just make sure the 2nd one has a unique IP address, leave one at 192.168.1.1 and make the other 192.168.1.2, and also make sure you run them on different channels, choose from channels 1, 6 and 11. You wireless clients should automatically roam between the 2 wireless routers (sometimes takes several seconds) depending on how close you get to one or the other.
Or are you asking about setting up a wireless bridge link between the two wireless routers? In that case, no, they are not meant for this purpose. In that case, you would need to replace one of your wireless routers with a wireless workgroup bridge, which Linksys also makes. It acts like a client to the main wireless router and then has a wired ethernet port. If this is the setup you're after, look at the WET54G. They call this the cableless cable. The common example is setting up a home office in a detached garage and you don't feel like running cable and burying conduit. The single ethernet port can be plugged into a mini-hub which then has multiple devices connected.
If you can run wiring, you can connect your 2 wireless routers together using a LAN port, or using the WAN interface. So you can extend your LAN, or you can create a whole 2nd WLAN with it's own separate IP address rance and DHCP server by connecting it using the WAN interface.
2007-01-16 06:13:33 · answer #1 · answered by networkmaster 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, it is possible. Connect the two routers together through a spare network port or uplink. When uplinking or connecting, make sure that only one side is connected to the uplink port and connect the other to a free port and not the WAN port. Through my experience, connecting to the WAN port makes things very difficult because you are literally making two separate networks. Also, you may want to disable DHCP on the secondary router so that it will be more easily managed from one router than two. Give the other router a static IP configuration that is similar to the primary router (i.e. primary router is 192.168.1.1 make the secondary 192.168.1.2). The SSIDs that identifies the access point, I was able to duplicate on a Linksys repeater, but I'm not sure you are able to do on an additional router. You may have to assign separate SSIDs in worse case-scenario and channels
2016-05-25 01:32:36 · answer #2 · answered by Beverly 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can connect them using an ethernet cable which means one port on each router will be used. But as far as I know Linksys wireless routers can work only in access point mode which means they can't be connected or bridged using wireless connectivity.
What is it that you want to achieve by doing this?
2007-01-16 06:15:28 · answer #3 · answered by MSA 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. No
2. Why would you want to?
2007-01-16 06:06:26 · answer #4 · answered by paul_p_25 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋