Bridge network
By krkchn
@krkchn (160)
Philippines
May 31, 2009 8:35pm CST
Can anyone help me bridge my two routers? I am able to bridge my two routers but the speed is kind of slow. My steps may be wrong and I want to hear from people who are more experienced. What i did is connect the two routers through their LAN. Changed the gateway of the primary router to 192.168.1.1 with IP range from 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.30 and the second router to 192.168.1.31 with range from 192.168.1.32 to 192.168.1.100. Should the second router's gateway be in the range of the first router?
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@kstanley7 (1171)
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2 Jun 09
unfotunatly this is a bit tedious but I will give it a try with my experiences, the only way I have managed to sucessfully bridge 2 routers is connect them both as standard, one of the routers would need to have the DHCP disabled, and the ip ranges would have to be manually assigned so that it can effectively communicate...
IF however you have two internet connections with different speeds what I Would suggest is build up a seriously cheap pc and build a smoothwall box which would allow you to bond the internet connections.
@kstanley7 (1171)
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2 Jun 09
actually I'll make it straight forward for you to easily understand.
EXAMPLE:
p: 218.208.45.254
subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 218.208.45.200
for the router
here's how you will be setting it up.
Pull a wire and connect one end to the LAN Router ports as if it's another PC and for the router, plug it into the WAN port (meant for the ADSL modem or WAN)
And for the setting up of the router, choose the Static IP connectivity type (or anything similar) and setup the chosen IP, ie:-
ip: 218.208.45.254
subnet: 255.255.255.0
gateway: 218.208.45.200
Then enable DHCP and configure it as you like and remember to enable WEP or WPA.
Voila!
Wireless devices will get IP from the wireless router and it will use it as the gateway to route all internet requests to the LAN router and then off to the rest of the world.
by default, the WAN port and the LAN port of the router is isolated and therefore will not meddle with your other LAN router's connectivity.
But beware, using this network topology, you won't be able to connect between your devices connected to your wireless router with the other PCs on the LAN router.
@krkchn (160)
• Philippines
2 Jun 09
Thank you man. You've been of great help. My problem must have been conflicting DHCP since I did not turn off the DHCP of the second router. I wont do the second option you suggested since I want the computers here to be able to transfer files and share the printer since I'm too thrifty to buy a print server. Thank you again.
@kstanley7 (1171)
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2 Jun 09
Your very welcome, I'm just glad to help out.. if you need any help with anything then please don't hesitate to msg me. :-)
