IT related question.

[Ganoncrotch]

Hiku said:

caffeinade said:

If a switch does not work, you may have to try some specialized hardware like this.

http://fibertronics-store.com/Fiber-Optic-Switches_c937.htm

Fiber switch, eh? Duly noted.

Ganoncrotch said:

What is your end goal here, why can't you just get a router with more ports on it for example, what is the specifics of needing to have 2 routers on one line? not that you can't do that anyway, you can very easily have one router followed by another just with features like DHCP turned off on the second one. Is this a case if you are trying to split a single connection into two exactly down the middle with house mates over bandwidth sharing issues? if so there is better ways of doing this.

 

Edit - you are probably mistaking terms Router and modem here btw, if you are using it at the demark point it is most likely a modem+router you have and not just a straight up Router.

The issue is, there is a router with built in ports for IP telephony that needs to be plugged in so that one of the residents can use the telephone. I'll call it Router 1 for short. Router 1 has an instability issue where it will disconnect you from the internet usually multiple times a day. It seems particularly sensetive to live streaming. Router 1 was sent to us from our IP. I've tried getting a replacement from them, but it was exactly the same, and this is a known issue, they say. There are two people in the household connected to Router 1. And every time Router 1 malfunctions, they have to go out in the hallway to reset it.

What I originally wanted to do, was plug in a Router 2 into the wall, and then have the two residents computers hooked up to Router 2, and also connect Router 1 to one of the ports in Router 2, and simply have it there for the purpose of telephony, and no one has to be plugged into Router 1. However, Router 1 refuses to work when it's plugged into Router 2 that way. It only accepts the braodband into its WAN port if it's directly from the wall. My IP explained this to me, and it had something to do with Router 2 changing the signal before passing it on to Router 1.
Therefor, it seems Router 1 needs to be connected directly to the fiberoptics port in the wall. And there is only one such fiberoptics port available for this.

So to solve the issue of people having to deal with the very unstable Router 1, I thought there may be a way to connect two different routers into the wall. It sounds like a Desktop switch may do that.

As for if I'm mistaking a router for a modem/router, perhaps. This is Router 2: https://www.asus.com/Networking/RTAC66U/
Doesn't say anything about Modem on the specifications page. As for Router 1, I'm not sure.

It should be perfectly possible to do this middle paragraph with the settings on the second Router, but you'll need to go about setting up its IP address and default gateway inside the settings of the router, it's different for each router but normally home routers will try to assign themselves as 192.168.1.1 on a network they make of 255.255.255.0 subnet, when you connect the two without changing any settings there is a good chance they're both trying to take that address and just not going to work without a little setup since they're going to need to be on the same network.

What I'd advice doing is seeing if in Router 1 you could turn off a feature called DHCP, then assign it the IP address 192.168.1.2 by using the DHCP of Router 2 to assign a static address to the MAC address of Router 1, then set the default gateway of Router 1 to be [read final line before doing this step!!] 192.168.1.1 (router 2) and you could potentially have a functional system. Sorry my head is fried atm, it's 4am here and I literally spent the day setting up IP based cameras on a network lol, but yeah if the above stuff seems tough all I can say is you won't really have it any easier if you just buy a switch because you'll need to configure that too first since the Router 1 will still need to have that as it's gateway for all traffic.

 

Oh you'll also need to take the original Default Gateway from Router 1 and give that to Router 2, write that down before you alter it to be 192.168.1.1 you'll want to keep all the things you change written down just in case it doesn't work and you need to change them back. Good luck mate.