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multiple routers on a network?
initiatefailure
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So I live in a house with 9 other people and we have a large LAN network with a wireless router on it.
The wireless is frankly terrible though and I dn't know if it's just because a lot of people are using it or what the cause is.
What I want to do is connect my wireless router either through one of my wall connections or using the second lan port in my PC.
I'm not entirely sure how to go about this. When I try to log in to the router (it was reset to default a few months ago for other reasons plus i didn't know the password anymore anyway) it brings me to a screen saying
"this device is being managed by "IP address."
I don't know if that's the main router for the house or what?
Another house member has their own wireless that they run off of a LAN connection so I'm fairly certain this can be accomplished with our set-up... I just don't know how.
The wireless is frankly terrible though and I dn't know if it's just because a lot of people are using it or what the cause is.
What I want to do is connect my wireless router either through one of my wall connections or using the second lan port in my PC.
I'm not entirely sure how to go about this. When I try to log in to the router (it was reset to default a few months ago for other reasons plus i didn't know the password anymore anyway) it brings me to a screen saying
"this device is being managed by "IP address."
I don't know if that's the main router for the house or what?
Another house member has their own wireless that they run off of a LAN connection so I'm fairly certain this can be accomplished with our set-up... I just don't know how.
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Generally to put another router on a network you either plug a network cable into the uplink and give it a new subnet (if the current is 192.168.1.x you'd use 192.168.2.x or something) and letting the routers handle all the other network garbage.
The other, way if you just want to use it as an access point is to turn off DHCP, give it a LAN ip address on the network statically (or even DHCP if you don't want to manage it in the future) and set up the wireless as usual.
It gets into finer detail but those are the general schools of thought.