Connecting two wireless routers together (by cable)

I have a wireless network in the office at the back of the house,
providing shared internet connection using a 2Wire 2700HG ADSL wireless
router. The wireless signal isn't strong enough to reach to the front
of the house, so I have a CAT5 cable connected to the router, which
runs all the way to the front of the house, so I can connect a computer
to it to access the local network and the internet.

I happen to have a Netgear WGR614 wireless router. My question is this:
Can I connect the Netgear to the end of the cable and thus provide
wireless access to the local network and the internet, from the front
of the house?

I assume that I will have to disable DHCP on the Netgear and give it a
static IP address? Do I assign it an IP address in the same range as
the 2Wire, or a different range?

Do I give the Netgear the same or different SSID to the 2Wire? Same or
different wireless channel?

Anything else I haven't thought of?

Steve

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> I have a wireless network in the office at the back of the house,
> providing shared internet connection using a 2Wire 2700HG ADSL wireless
> router. The wireless signal isn't strong enough to reach to the front
> of the house, so I have a CAT5 cable connected to the router, which
> runs all the way to the front of the house, so I can connect a computer
> to it to access the local network and the internet.
>
> I happen to have a Netgear WGR614 wireless router. My question is this:
> Can I connect the Netgear to the end of the cable and thus provide
> wireless access to the local network and the internet, from the front
> of the house?

Yes - plug the Cat5 into a LAN port, not the WAN port. You may need a
crossover cable.
>
> I assume that I will have to disable DHCP on the Netgear and give it a
> static IP address?

Yes - do it before you hook up the 2 routers.

Do I assign it an IP address in the same range as
> the 2Wire, or a different range?

in the same range as the LAN address of the 2Wire, but not in the DHCP
range.
>
> Do I give the Netgear the same or different SSID to the 2Wire? Same or
> different wireless channel?

AFAICT same SSID, different channel, at least 4 channel "gap" between the 2.
>
> Anything else I haven't thought of?

you probably cannot get any "alerts" or logs out of the WGR as Netgear boxes
want to send such stuff out of the WAN port.

i have an earlier 802.11B Netgear router (MR814) - i hooked the WAN port to
a LAN port locally and gave it another adr in the LAN range - now it can
email reports, pick up NTP etc.

>
> Steve
>
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Regards

stephen_hope@xyzworld.com - replace xyz with ntl

stephen wrote:

> AFAICT same SSID, different channel, at least 4 channel "gap" between the 2.

Thanks very much - it's working nicely.

Steve