Getting two wireless routers to work together

[70herald]

on the same house sized network is a miserable task. But somehow accidentally I once again have internet downstairs.. Not quite sure how or why but after I changed all sorts of settings it works... sort of a mystery.

 

[70herald]

Only now I cant log into the second router to adjust the settings any more....

 

[DNK]

Same brand?

 

[70herald]

two different brands but they are communicating. I am trying to get back into the setup of the second router to change the channel it is using but even though I can ping it, and I an using it to connect, I cant get its web interface to respond.

 

[DNK]

Plug straight to it

 

[70herald]

OK plugging straight in didn't help so I started over again, with a hard reset to reload the default settings, and discovered a setting which enables remove web based GUI management so I enabled it at now I can access both of the routers on my network. I also changed the channels on the routers so that they don't overlap which should give better performance.

Incidentally I also changed the software on the router from the factory supplied software to DD-WRT which is one of the alternative source software packages for wireless routers, looks decent and seems to add a bunch of options.

 

[DNK]

nothin wrong with DD-WRT

 

[AngliaGT]

Routers - I didn't know that you did woodwork,or that you could
get them without a powercord.

- Doug

 

[DrEntropy]

Still has a power cord, Doug. It's the durn'd DATA cord Don was referencing.

 

[DNK]

Routers - I didn't know that you did woodwork,or that you could
get them without a powercord.- Doug

Doug-

 

[Gliderman8]

A wireless router.

 

[DNK]

Why do they call them wireless when there are 3 wires connected to mine?

 

[GregW]

Why do they call them wireless when there are 3 wires connected to mine?

You MUST be using it incorrectly.

 

[DrEntropy]

:lol:

 

[DNK]

You MUST be using it incorrectly.

Never seen one work with no wires to it.

And I tried (that's another story for another day)

 

[GregW]

Truth be told, I'm using mine incorrectly too.

 

[DNK]

:eagerness: