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Question

Router is failing after 1 hour

Feb 16, 2016 8:43AM PST

Hello

I am currently living for 5 months in a house where somebody was renting the room. This is their networking setup.

They have 2 routers. The first and main router is an all-in-one router + modem. With this router there are no problems and internet connection works fine. The second router is connected through a LAN port from the first router to the WAN port from the second router. Then from the second router all the other three LAN ports are used, from which one of them I am connected.

Now there's this issue with the second router where after one hour the connection just drops. I can't get an IP address anymore. Ipconfig /release /renew gives me 'Unable to contact DHCP server'. I can't even ping the router.

What can I do to solve this? It has a static IP address and gateway & DNS servers are pointed to the first router.

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Answer
Not a supportable setup.
Feb 16, 2016 8:55AM PST

Now if the second router was connected on a LAN port and used as WAP, that's a well known setup that works. The second router setup you have here causes many folk to ask what's wrong. My answer is that it's not a setup I'll deploy.

Try "How to use a router as a WAP" on a search engine.

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No ports free
Feb 16, 2016 9:08AM PST

The problem is that the second router doesn't have any LAN ports available anymore. They are all in use. Is there really not any solution to this?

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Sure. Add a swtched hub. 10 or so bucks.
Feb 16, 2016 9:20AM PST

No one I know in the support area will support or field the setup you noted in your first post. They won't even try to fix it. That has upset a few folk but your reputation is at stake here. So you reconfigure it so it works.

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Thanks
Feb 16, 2016 9:26AM PST

Okay, that was something I had in mind, but I wanted to be sure if there really wasn't any other option.

Thank you for your fast response.

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I forgot one thing.
Feb 16, 2016 4:29PM PST

There was a rare odd router that supported the WAP setup and let you use all 5 ports. Be sure to check the second router's manual. It's so rare I often forget it.