Help Please - need to connect BEFSR81 to BEFSR41

[DanAlexov]

I am a beginner and really need help to understand how to fix the
following:

I am a teleworker for a major marketing company - for my home office
they set me up with a 4 port router(Linksys befsr41) and a cable modem
which runs VPN to access the corporate network. When I bought my new
house last year, knowing that I would have such a setup and wanting
more connections, I had the electrician run cat5 wire throughout the
house (into 6 rooms) which all lead to 1 room (setup to be the router
/ cable modem room).

Here's the problem:

1) since the befsr41 only had 4 ports (I needed 6), I bought the
befsr81. It worked fine on its own and each port worked. The issue
is that only one of the 6 wires runs into the basement, and I now want
2 additional connections in the basement. Thus I thought I would use
the spare befsr41. The instructions on the befsr81 say that each port
is capable of uplink (this router does not have an actual uplink
port), so I simply connected port8 of the befsr81 to the WAN port on
the befsr41. Although the WAN link green light comes on, no PCs
connected to any of the 4 ports works. So I tried to connect port8 on
the befsr81 to the uplink port on the befsr41. This allowed all the
PCs connected to this 4 port router in the basement to work, though
none of the PCs connected to the source 8 port router upstairs would
work?

I know it can work, and I assume it is easy for someone that knows
this stuff. Can someone please offer some suggestions.

BTW - I am not too familiar on how to configure these routers. My
company supplied us with a quick 1 page step by step instruction sheet
on how to make VPN work. It made us access the 192.168.1.1 Linksys
site to make some changes - is this how I configure the router?

Thanks

 

[BRIAN CROSBY]

Try connecting to a port other than the WAN. With my old SpeedSteam router it did not have a Uplink port and all the ports could act as an uplink to my hub.

--
Brian Crosby
(e-mail address removed)
I am a beginner and really need help to understand how to fix the
following:

I am a teleworker for a major marketing company - for my home office
they set me up with a 4 port router(Linksys befsr41) and a cable modem
which runs VPN to access the corporate network. When I bought my new
house last year, knowing that I would have such a setup and wanting
more connections, I had the electrician run cat5 wire throughout the
house (into 6 rooms) which all lead to 1 room (setup to be the router
/ cable modem room).

Here's the problem:

1) since the befsr41 only had 4 ports (I needed 6), I bought the
befsr81. It worked fine on its own and each port worked. The issue
is that only one of the 6 wires runs into the basement, and I now want
2 additional connections in the basement. Thus I thought I would use
the spare befsr41. The instructions on the befsr81 say that each port
is capable of uplink (this router does not have an actual uplink
port), so I simply connected port8 of the befsr81 to the WAN port on
the befsr41. Although the WAN link green light comes on, no PCs
connected to any of the 4 ports works. So I tried to connect port8 on
the befsr81 to the uplink port on the befsr41. This allowed all the
PCs connected to this 4 port router in the basement to work, though
none of the PCs connected to the source 8 port router upstairs would
work?

I know it can work, and I assume it is easy for someone that knows
this stuff. Can someone please offer some suggestions.

BTW - I am not too familiar on how to configure these routers. My
company supplied us with a quick 1 page step by step instruction sheet
on how to make VPN work. It made us access the 192.168.1.1 Linksys
site to make some changes - is this how I configure the router?

Thanks