Most(?) wireless routers can only act as access points when they are
connected by RJ45 to the "other" router... You may find something about that
in the docs for your router. I also don't think you want both routers to
have the same SSID... I'll have to do some more reading on this, but that
is my first suggestion of possible issues for you.

HTH

Kerry


<buonacorsi@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> In the next few days I am soon to join Orange, after leaving AOL, and
> shall receive an Orange Livebox, which, as far as I am aware, in
> basically a normal wireless router.
>
> I currently have a Netgear DG834G wireless router, and as the wireless
> signal can fluctuate in our house (environmental reasons I believe) I
> was thinking of demoting the Netgear to just an Access Point; having
> the Netgear upstairs, and the Livebox downstairs with the phone line.
>
> I really just need confirmation on how to go about this. I know I
> shall have to disable DHCP on the Netgear, and change the SSID on both
> routers to the same.
>
> Now, if I change the "Internet IP Address" on the Netgear to the IP
> Address of Livebox (making it the default gateway, in essence), and
> change the former "LAN TCP/IP Setup" option from what was the gateway
> to a new IP address within the range, would this be sufficent?
>
> i.e.
>
> PC --> Netgear (IP:192.168.0.10) --> Livebox (IP:192.168.0.1) -->
> Internet
> ^
> 192.168.0.11____________________________DHCP/
>
> (I hope that diagram comes out right).
>
> Basically I would be changing the Netgear Router's static gateway IP
> Address into just a static IP Address for access, and sending any
> traffic through to the Livebox Static IP (new gateway) through what
> used to be the IP that would access the Internet...
>
> Or am I just over-complicating things?
>
> Would this work, and would my computer upstairs find the SSID (Ch:9) on
> the Netgear, send traffic through to Livebox, with the same SSID
> (Ch:10) and DHCP come from the Livebox...
>