I know you wouldn't use the Wan port if you were uplinking to a second
switch and I believe the same applies here. I could be wrong



"Bob Willard" <BobwBSGS@TrashThis.comcast.net> wrote in message
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> RBM wrote:
>
>> I'm no expert but I'll take a stab at it. Connect the ASDL router to the
>> modem, connect the two PC's via cable to LAN ports and configure them to
>> static Ip addresses that are outside of the fifty addresses used by the
>> DHCP. Uplink the wireless router to the ASDL router by connecting the
>> cable between LAN ports on both, then disable the DHCP on the wireless
>> router and after it's working wirelessly, configure whatever security you
>> like
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> "badman3k" <badman3k.32sl8r@no-mx.wirelessforums.org> wrote in message
>> news:badman3k.32sl8r@no-mx.wirelessforums.org...
>>
>>>Hi!
>>>
>>>I've been trying to get my home network setup so that the main machines
>>>are hardwired into the network, and then there's a wireless network that
>>>will allow other devices to connect to the network, but I'm having a lot
>>>of trouble with setting everything up, even thought the two network
>>>devices are both Linksys.
>>>
>>>I have:
>>>
>>>- Linksys WRT54G v2.0 wireless router
>>>- Linksys AG241 ADSL Router
>>> /LIST]>>>
>>> What I ideally want is to have the ADSL router connected to the
>>> internet, and then the two main PCs connect to the ADSL router via
>>> Ethernet cables, with static IPs for both. Then the wireless router
>>> connects to the ADSL router and allows for wireless devices to connect
>>> to the network and all devices able to communicate with each other.
>>>
>>> I've tried a number of setups but nothing seems to be working and I'm
>>> at a bit of a loss. I thought it would be easy as the two devices are
>>> both Linksys, but the Linksys site has provided any results so far.
>>>
>>> Any help in getting everything to work would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>> Rich
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> Uh, disabling DHCP on the secondary router is correct, since you don't
> want or need two DHCP servers. And, setting the static IPAs outside of
> the DHCP range is correct, to avoid conflicts. But I suspect that
> connecting the two routers LANport-to-LANport won't work; you should
> AFAIK connect the WANport on the WRT54G to a LANport on the ADSL router.
> --
> Cheers, Bob