connecting a wireless router to my excisting cable router

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I need help, I am running a cable network(netgear security router
RO318) connecting 3 P.C's. I have just bought a wireless laptop and
want to connect to the network, I have bought a wireless router
(netgear MR314). I have been informed that i can connect the wireless
router into my cable router, by plugging into 1 of the local ports at
the rear of the router. I did this and had a very brief connection with
the wireless laptop. Is there something that i am not doing or is there
some steps that i need to do or a set up i need to run to enable this
Laptop to connect to the network.


grumpyonetwo
 
grumpyonetwo said:
I need help, I am running a cable network(netgear security router
RO318) connecting 3 P.C's. I have just bought a wireless laptop and
want to connect to the network, I have bought a wireless router
(netgear MR314). I have been informed that i can connect the wireless
router into my cable router, by plugging into 1 of the local ports at
the rear of the router. I did this and had a very brief connection with
the wireless laptop. Is there something that i am not doing or is there
some steps that i need to do or a set up i need to run to enable this
Laptop to connect to the network.


grumpyonetwo
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you need to turn off the router functions on one of them :>

also see if MAC filtering is setup to work properly
 
grumpyonetwo said:
I need help, I am running a cable network(netgear security router
RO318) connecting 3 P.C's. I have just bought a wireless laptop and
want to connect to the network, I have bought a wireless router
(netgear MR314). I have been informed that i can connect the wireless
router into my cable router, by plugging into 1 of the local ports at
the rear of the router. I did this and had a very brief connection with
the wireless laptop. Is there something that i am not doing or is there
some steps that i need to do or a set up i need to run to enable this
Laptop to connect to the network.


grumpyonetwo
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Alas...you should have bought a wireless *access point* - not a
router/gateway device. Can you return or exchange it? [NB: I suspect you've
mistyped the model numbers for both of the devices....neither of those is
listed on Netgear's website.]

Barring that, you could *replace* the existing wired Netgear with the new
device.
 
Maybe an MR814? Anyway if don't want to simply replace your existing router
with the new wireless router:

1. Disable DHCP on the new router and change its LAN IP to a compatible,
nonconflicting address in the subnet used by the old router.

2. Run an ethernet cable from a LAN port on the old router to a LAN port on
the new router.

Doug Sherman
MCSE, MCSA, MCP+I, MVP
 
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