A router and switch question

[dunraim]

I have a network I setup for my dad with a a rotuer that runs to a second router to provide intenet to a room in the house that can't get wifi

It stopped working today, So I added a switch to the set up.

Why does it work that the modem to the switch to the router, and not from the modem to the router?

 

[stiltner]

Umm, it should work either way as long as your modem is bridge mode and your router is handling the login and if necessary DHCP to the client handoffs.

Why it doesn't, is probably something to do with the above. Subnet difference issue possibly?

 

[dunraim]

That could be it. Thanks i will check next time. they should have been on the same subnet, O well. Thanks.