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
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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