Router won't Connect

Good Afternoon! We have a wireless network in our small business. We have several wireless router and everything works great.... until now. We have added another area and installed a wireless router to service the area. When the router is connected it will not obtain an address from the system. Light flash like it is trying, but it won't connect. We have run new wire, check connections, etc. In this particular line the are 2 router and a switch that the signal passes through. This router is at the end on the line and would make the 3rd router. Sequence of hard wire is: Router -> Router -> Switch -> Router -> New Router. Distance between router/switch never exceeds 200'. For some reason the new router will not connect to the network. Any Ideas??? Thanks!!

hi,
what make and model of routers are u using throughout.

are u using the same ip addresses throughout ur network.

how are these routers and the switch connected to each other, could u please detail out from which port on the routers to where on the next router down to the switch etc.

what device are u usng as ur dhcp server and how many of these dhcp servers do u have on the network.

how many ip address ranges are u using on this network.

how many of these routers have their dhcp server settings enabled or diabled.

what is providing the internet service and how is it connected to the routers and switch.

Thanks for the reply! I can get all this, however, another note. When I hook the NEW router to the existing router with a short cable it works. How far can the system be when daisy chaining the routers together? Try to make sure it isn't a distance issue.

Make Cisco(linksys) E1000 with some older

Each router has its own static IP

Typically, port 1 is used to connect router to router. If two router come off of one then ports 1 and 2 are used, and so on.

There is a single router with DHCP enable and the rest are disabled.

There is a single ip address range used, 50 IP address.

One with DHCP enable. All other disabled

We have a T1 line. an Adtran router accepts the 2 IP Trunks we have and a switch splits them for use. The main DHCP router is connected to that switch via the "internet" port.

100 metres = 328 feet = 109 yards = 3924 inches

with all that u have i see no reason why it should not work. everything is alright but i will suggest making the able lengths shorter than the 100 metres requirement as u cascade the devices along the way.

also since it works with a short cable, i suggest u test the long cable with a lan cable tester just to make assurance double sure that its crimpped properly.
what u are doing is just basic device cascading and so there should not be any much issues.

also i have found out that this simple technique helps attimes, simple crimp 1 end of the long ethernet cable STRAIGHT and crimp the other end CROSSED

and also check at the website of the manufacturer of the new router to see if there is any new firmware for the device and if yes, do an upgrade of firmware.
let me know what happened next.

Thanks for the reply's to this post. Turned out to be a wiring issue. Checked everything and MADE sure the wiring was correct. Works great!!

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