Hiku said:
Ganoncrotch said:
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.
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I see. Thanks for the eplanation. I don't understand all of the terms, but I'll see if I can follow the instructions anyway. Hopefully the IP can walk me through it. Or perhaps do it for me. One issue I forgot to mention is that I have no access to Router 1's settings. Due to security risks with that particular router, the IP has chosen to not let customers change its settings. So I'll either have to ask them to do it for me, or I'll have to do it with a switch that I buy.
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Wow that is pretty shit, they provide you with hardware with known issues and then don't let you change it for other parts or even alter the settings.
I think it's time for a new ISP (Internet Service Provider) Good luck getting it sorted out though if you can, sounds like they have you between a rock and... another rock.
