Home network...

[Saryn]

So, my previous ISP went belly up and bankrupt. What I liked with them was that I had internet access point in my living room, office and bedroom so essentially wired internet in every room without the need of a router. I did have two wireless routers though. Worked great. Now it doesn't.

Now I have ADSL setup in the office. The bedroom and living room are currently internet free. The office has the ADSL netgear modem and a Dlink DIR-655 wireless gaming router. The living room has a netgear n600 dual band wireless router. Both routers I got heavily discounted and work great.

My mission is to get the dlink hooked back up in the office getting internet off of the adsl netgear router and bridge it to the netgear in the living room so the netgear n600 will act as a AP for wired and wireless. How can I achieve this? I know some networking basics but this is a little beyond me.

Also, at first I had the adsl uplink port plugged into the WAN of the dlink and it seemed to work just fine.

[Blacksmith1]

That's your best bet, is to use the router direct wired from the DSL line. as for getting the other one to act as a wireless extender??? you would need to look at it's documentation to see if it can. the only way i know for sure to make it work is to use the DSL to driver router one, then configure router 2 to accept it's connection from router one. and then only wired. I never tried to make it work without the cables.

[Saryn]

Ok disabled the wifi on the Netgear DSL and plugged the dir655 from uplink to WAN and the dlink configured itself (pppoe and all). now the netgear n600 has a wireless repeater setting. I want to use the DLink as the base, and the netgear as the repeater/access point for lan and wireless. What settings on the netgear should be changed? First try was a fail. After I setup wireless repeater and input the dlink mac into the netgear, I couldnt access the netgear again so had to factory reset.

[Saryn]

dont think what I am trying to do is possible with a dlink and a netgear. Dlink doesnt have the option to be a base and am unsure how to connect the netgear wirelessly to the dlink. Gonna browse the netgear and dlink forums tomorrow to see what I can come up with.

btw, the n600 is wndr3400

[Joshua_Mahr]

Kinda over complicated. Why not use the DIR-655 for everything and leave out the n600. Or is it a range issue?

[Saryn]

Range issue and I have 5 devices in the living room, only two with wireless capability. The office is at one end of the house, the bedroom on the far other. Get a very weak signal down there and doesn't always work depending on what is running in the house. Looks like I will be looking for a range extender with lan capabilities for now. eventually going to run a cat5 or 6 from office to living room or a ethernet over powerline plug.