Daisey Chain

can you daisey chain router? i have a lynksys wirelss router and what not and im gonna have a lan party with like 10 people and i was wondering if i can just hook routers up to eachohter so we coudl all be in the same network?

would i have to have a cable going from 1 router to the internet port on another router? or can i jsut plug them all in to the normal comptuer ports

sorry about all the misspellings, the pain kilers make it hrad to type.

Ok, actually, we've covered this question before somewhere else in the forums, I'm almost certain. So do a search for it for more info, but here's a quick summary.

Yes, you can do that, however, you need to make sure that the routers all have different IPs, and that only the MAIN router has DHCP and NAT on. Essentially, what you are doing is running the other routers as switches by disabling their routing functions. To do this, here's my advice:

1. Take each router that you are not going to be using as the MAIN router and disable DHCP and NAT in the options. Assign IPs such as 192.168.2.1 and 192.168.3.1 etc, etc. Change only the second from the last number.

2. Hook those routers up to the MAIN router, which should have DHCP and NAT properly configured, by plugging standard ethernet into ports 1, 2, etc. on the MAIN router, and by plugging the ethernet into the link or port 4 (or whatever the last port is,) on the other routers. Usually the link port works, but sometimes you have to use the last regular port. Additionally, some routers may require crossover cable. I've never experienced it though.

3. That should work. Some routers need to to be setup particular ways to work, however, that should do it for ya.

thanks dude, thats all i really needed to know. +rep


i recently was given a motorolla wifi cable box. it involves the cable from the wall going to the motorolla box and then directly to my comp and wifi to the world.

so what i was wondering could i use both the motorolla box AND my lynksys wifi boxes together and get like massive signal strength? or would it just be like not adding at all and just make things more complicated.

Is the Linksys wireless?

And even if it is, unless it's places further away from the other router so it can send it's signal further, it's not going to do much difference.
And i'm not sure you can share the wireless connection like that anyway.

yeah, the lynksys is wireless,

would you suggest switching over to the motorolla router as my dependable wireless access point, id think that its motorolla company of cell phones it might be stronger than my linksys.

heres the stats on it:
motorolla SBG900
802.11g, motorolla SURFboard cable modem and some super firewall.

im thinking since it has all this software it would be a better advantage to behind 2 firewalls rather than just the linksys router and the non firewall cable router my ISP gave me.

P.S. What is that little USB port on the back of all the cable modem, its the square USB port you find on printers.

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ok, i just thought of something, i can easily just do what i described above and just turn off the wifi on the motorolla thinger majiger BUT BUT BUT BUT if i were to replace my current broadband modem would i have to call my isp and give them the mac address to the motorolla gateway? because i know if i want to check my usuage i have to use the MAC address on the bottom of the modem.

If the Motorolla modem/router doesn't have a firewall, then I'd disable the wireless on it and use your Linksys for your PC and wireless needs. I'm assuming the Linksys has some type of firewall, NAT, DHCP, etc.

As for the MAC address, you shouldn't have to change anything. The ISP will see the MAC of the modem and everything else will be (I assume) hidden behind NAT on your Linksys.

---John Holmes...

the usb connection on the back of the modem is for when you dont have a ethernet port in the back of your comp. You cant use both of em at the same time.