You can certainly cascade routers. My grandkids have done it at their house. I provided a wired router as a hardware firewall for the one computer in the house a long time ago. Then I bought my granddaughter a Lenovo notebook. She got a wireless router and plugged into a downstream port on the wired router. I have not inspected the installation to see exactly what was done. I would have put the wireless router plugged into the cable modem, and plugged the wired modem into the wireless one. That way, clients of the wired router have that hardware firewall between themselves and an wireless client.
Fred Holmes At 01:58 PM 2/7/2009, Mike Sloane wrote: >I have an office with an 8-port Ethernet router on a broadband cable >connection. I have been requested the ability to provide some wireless >capability temporarily (for outside auditors). I have a spare 4-port >wired/wireless Linksys broadband router, and I was wondering if I could >"daisy-chain" the latter to the former by using a cross-over cable between one >of the Ethernet ports on each unit. I know that I can daisy chain Ethernet >hubs this way, but have not ever tried to do it with wireless (802.11a/b/g/n) >connections. > >My other thought is to plug the wired/wireless into the broadband connection >and then patch the 8-port hub into that. > >Before I start chasing "the impossible dream", I was wondering if anyone had >tried it or had any thoughts. > >Mike ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
