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Question

Can anyone help with my networking issues?

Mar 4, 2015 3:16AM PST

I have a cable modem in the back part of the house in my wifes studio, it is hooked into a 4 port cisco router. Her DVD player (right next to the router) will not maintain a wifi connection so we hard wired it into one of the 4 ports.
I have my "man cave" several rooms away and have wifi connectivity issues all the time. My dvd player is a twin to hers and shares the same issues. I also have an Imac that drops wifi amost every time you blink.
I had heard somewhere I should daisy chain routers, adding a second router in my room where I could then hard wire my Imac and my dvd player.
I had an ethernet cable pulled from where the existing router is back to my room. I plugged that cable into another of the ports of the router and then into the internet port on the new router.
On my windows 7 laptop the network icon idicated that I was connected to the second named network and the internet was available, but when I try to ddo anything with any of the devices in my room they all return an error stating that there is no internet connection.

what all am I missing and or doing wrong here?


Thanks in advance for any assistance.

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Clarification Request
Did you configure the 2nd router as a WAP?
Mar 4, 2015 3:30AM PST

The common gaffe is to use the WAN port of the second router. There are many great articles on "How to use a router as a WAP" on google so I'll pause here for more detail.

In short, you don't use the internet port of the second router unless you need less hair.
Bob

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WOW
Mar 4, 2015 10:57PM PST

So simple it is scary. I changed the location of the :HOT" cable (Internet in) to a different location in the back of the router and suddenly it works beautifully., so far any.

Thank you so much.

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Thanks for the report back.
Mar 4, 2015 11:23PM PST

It's one of those things that once you know...