carlos28355
07-02-2010, 04:31 AM
Hey guys hope you can help me out here... So i have followed some wiki tutorials from here on hooking up 2 routers together. so here is my situation and my ultimate goal.
i have 2 linksys wrt310n routers one has dd-wrt v24(i think sorry not at home) one is just standard linksys firmware which ill call router 1 and router 2 will be dd-wrt
router 1 has htpc xbox360 and tv hooked up to it its in my living room. i stream alot of hd stuff from online and within my network so i dont want to go wireless on all my devices. now down the hallway i have put router 2 and that has wired into it htpc x2 and a desktop as well as a media server.
So since i have 4 devices wired into router 2 i have the link from router 1 (port4) into internet port on router 2. therefore i have all 4 ports free for my comps.
all that seems to be working fine i dont have a problem with that. now heres what my main problem is at the moment.first of all i want to try and leave everything wired as is since thats working out great for me (=
my walls must be made of steel ha. cuz i get horrible reception with any wireless device. my cell phones dont work and when i go to other side of house with laptop the signal isnt that great either.with 2nd router i want to extend my wireless signal to other half of the house however i want to do this on the same ssid not on a different ssid which i read about with repeater bridges.
im sorry this is so long i just wanted to try and explain exactly what i am doing. if i left out important info im sorry just reply and ill answer asap!
i have posted this in dd-wrt forums im getting some help but i cant seem to get my problem solved so i wanted to branch out else where and u guys always have great feed back! here is link to other forum if you wanted to take a look...thanks!!
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=458159#458159
i have 2 linksys wrt310n routers one has dd-wrt v24(i think sorry not at home) one is just standard linksys firmware which ill call router 1 and router 2 will be dd-wrt
router 1 has htpc xbox360 and tv hooked up to it its in my living room. i stream alot of hd stuff from online and within my network so i dont want to go wireless on all my devices. now down the hallway i have put router 2 and that has wired into it htpc x2 and a desktop as well as a media server.
So since i have 4 devices wired into router 2 i have the link from router 1 (port4) into internet port on router 2. therefore i have all 4 ports free for my comps.
all that seems to be working fine i dont have a problem with that. now heres what my main problem is at the moment.first of all i want to try and leave everything wired as is since thats working out great for me (=
my walls must be made of steel ha. cuz i get horrible reception with any wireless device. my cell phones dont work and when i go to other side of house with laptop the signal isnt that great either.with 2nd router i want to extend my wireless signal to other half of the house however i want to do this on the same ssid not on a different ssid which i read about with repeater bridges.
im sorry this is so long i just wanted to try and explain exactly what i am doing. if i left out important info im sorry just reply and ill answer asap!
i have posted this in dd-wrt forums im getting some help but i cant seem to get my problem solved so i wanted to branch out else where and u guys always have great feed back! here is link to other forum if you wanted to take a look...thanks!!
http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=458159#458159