How To Setup A 2nd Router As A Hub?

[fsy82]

I have one main router on one side of the house and I have a Dlink router which i want to connect my desktop computer and Xbox to. I have been reading online that you need to disconnect the DHCP and change the 2nd router IP to the one of the main router. I try to do that but it says I cannot have the same DHCP or something.

Right now the internet works but the Xbox does not connect to xbox live and i cannot upload any torrents. Is there a step I am missing or that needs to be done? The dlink is causing huge conflicts with the streaming of traffic. I just need it to be a simple hub that doesn't restrict any incoming and outgoing data.

Main router is a TP Link Router. The second router is a DLINK DIR-655.

Thanks

[mos_skeeto]

I don't think this helps much but I just plugged a second router into one of the 4 ports of the first router and it worked without any configuration. PS3 and torrents work fine. Biggest downside for me is you can't see local files/iTunes of computers hooked up to the first router this way.

[fsy82]

Originally Posted by mos_skeeto

I don't think this helps much but I just plugged a second router into one of the 4 ports of the first router and it worked without any configuration. PS3 and torrents work fine. Biggest downside for me is you can't see local files/iTunes of computers hooked up to the first router this way.

I appreciate the help but that is sort of the setup right now I have but the Dlink is restricting data for some reason.

[InvisibleSoul]

1.) Disable DHCP on the D-Link
2.) Assign an IP address on your D-Link that's in the same network range as what your TP Link, but preferably not in the DHCP range.
3.) Connect a cable using the LAN port of BOTH routers. Do not plug it into the WAN port of the D-Link.

[fsy82]

Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul

1.) Disable DHCP on the D-Link
2.) Assign an IP address on your D-Link that's in the same network range as what your TP Link, but preferably not in the DHCP range.
3.) Connect a cable using the LAN port of BOTH routers. Do not plug it into the WAN port of the D-Link.

Lan porting is just the regular port where all the other connections go right? The wan port is for modem right? Sorry for the noob question

[!MiKrofT]

Hmm why aren't you using the DIR655 as the main one? It's a superior router to any TPLink one.. Unless you're running custom firmware on the TPLink.

Yes WAN port is the one u don't want to use on the 2nd router.

[fsy82]

Originally Posted by !MiKrofT

Hmm why aren't you using the DIR655 as the main one? It's a superior router to any TPLink one.. Unless you're running custom firmware on the TPLink.

Yes WAN port is the one u don't want to use on the 2nd router.

My signal strength with the DIR655 is very weak in our townhouse complex. For whatever reason the TPlink is way better for wireless signal quality.

[dink]

You want LAN to LAN type cascading of the router

great example and instructions: Article

[nns]

I'm waiting for the day someone on RS asks how to do intervlan routing.