(2) Routers (1) Connection - PROBLEMO!

[vigor]

Here is my dilema here, I've got a LinkSys BEFW11S4 Wireless Router (802.11B) which is down stairs. I have three computers down stairs, all hooked into the router. One laptop which has a wireless card.

This leaves me with one open port on my router (for another wired hookup). What I did was, took a 50 foot CAT5 cable, ran it from down stairs to up stairs, to a second router (Its a d-link $25 router from best buy). Once the wire hits the Dlink router upstairs, two wires come out the D-link go into two desktop computers. The D-link router is about 2 years old and has been sitting around for a while.

NOW... The problem is, the computers hooked into the D-link router don't work, the router keeps losing the "wan" connection, i.e the light goes out.

When I remove the Cable from the D-link router and hook directly into the computer, it works just fine.

I used CAT5 blended with some CAT6 for this project @_@


The question is, is the D-link router bad (it's awfully hot under operation). Can my router downstairs only support a total of 4 wired connections even if they are split by another router?

Is this even possible? lol

 

[nurv]

You need to use a crossover cable.

 

[tim_m]

don't use the wan port on the 2nd router. just use it as a regular hub. you need to hook the uplink port of one to a regular port on the other. it doesn't matter which one gets which (assuming one has an uplink, otherwise you would need xover)

you will probably need to disable dhcp on the 2nd router so that it doesn't conflict with the 1st one trying to assign ip addys