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Home Networking Help on running two routers?

I'm moving my office to the 3rd floor of my house as part of a renovation. I have a wireless router that barely provided signal strength to the 1st floor when it was located on the 2nd floor. Now with the move to the 3rd floor, I'm sure I won't get a signal.
As part of the renovation, I ran Ethernet cat5 cable from the 3rd floor to the basement.
Can I plug in a 2nd wireless router in my basement that is plugged into a network jack on my wireless router in my 3rd floor?
If so, would I need to run a 2nd SSID from the router in my basement?

A solution that should work:

First, plug in your linksys router directly to a computer all by itself with the factory settings. The computer should be able to reach the linksys using 192.168.1.1 as you already pointed out.

Go to the router's IP address, log in, and change some settings on your linksys. First, find where it says DHCP Server and choose the 'Disable' option (do not save your settings yet). Now go to where you can enter a Local IP Address and enter in a local IP address that is open but not in use. If the IP address of your other router (your primary one) is 192.168.1.1, then you should probably set *this* router's IP address to 192.168.1.100 (unless one of your computers is using that IP address as its static IP address -- then you would change the last number to 101, 102, 103, 104, etc.).

Now choose to save your settings.

Now unplug that router from that computer and hook the router up to your jack in the wall that is connected to your other router. Presto -- you can now use this router much like you use the other one -- only it has a different IP address. You should be able to log into the Linksys now by going to the new IP address you just gave to it (192.168.1.100 -- or whichever you chose the last digit to be).

It is *possible* that your primary router does not start handing out IP addresses starting at 192.168.1.100 like I am presuming -- but that can be worked out by doing a little searching to find out what address pool it *does* use and changing the IP address of your Linksys accordingly.

What this all does is change your Linksys Router to a switch, basically, from what I understand. Also, I do not think you use the Internet port on the Linksys any more when doing this (sometimes called the WAN port). Simply use the numbered ports, only (even when feeding in the line from the other router -- avoid using the 'Internet' jack or WAN port on the back of the Linksys with DHCP disabled).

Good luck,
Riven

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