Two routers setup??

[ehazard]

Hello everyone

 

(UK) I am trying to make a setup in my home to have two separate routers with their own SSID and for them not to be able to see each other's devices/files/printers. My Pre-filtered master socket will have the HG633 by talktalk and a standard phone line socket will have the DSL-3680 also by talktalk. I need to connect these two somehow, I was thinking an ethernet cable connecting the two from their LANs would work? I'm not sure.

 

Any help appreciated,

@ehazard

[dalekphalm]

The easiest way to do this would be to use three routers, in a setup like this:

 

Phone line -> (input into RJ-11 WAN port) Modem - DSL-3680 (output to RJ-45 LAN Port #1) -> Ethernet Cable -> (input into RJ-45 WAN port) Router #1 *note: I'm unfamiliar with the DSL-3680, but if it's a combo modem/router with more than one LAN port (typically 4 LAN ports), you can skip Router #1*

 

Router #1 (output to LAN Port #1) -> Ethernet Cable -> (input into RJ-45 WAN port) Router #2

Router #1 (output to LAN Port #2) -> Ethernet Cable -> (input into RJ-45 WAN port) Router #3

 

What this does, is has two routers, both accepting your Internet connection into their WAN ports, which creates isolated networks for each end router (#2 and #3).

 

Note: Make sure each Router (#1, 2, and 3) use different subnets (an example of a subnet is 192.168.0.x (x being the IP range of the subnet - .1 to .254, typically .1 being the router itself) for each router.

 

For example:

Router #1: 192.168.0.1

Router #2: 192.168.1.1

Router #3: 192.168.2.1

 

Make sure to keep NAT and the Firewall enabled on all routers, and it should keep traffic separate.

[Alex Atkin UK]

Its worth bearing in mind this is a horrible setup though and many services like gaming are likely to be fairly broken.

[dalekphalm]

Just now, Alex Atkin UK said:

Its worth bearing in mind this is a horrible setup though and many services like gaming are likely to be fairly broken.

Agreed - you'd have to do some mad port forwarding to get things working, and even then, it may end up simply being too complicated to keep track of and keep working correctly.

[dalekphalm]

1 hour ago, ehazard said:

Hello everyone

 

(UK) I am trying to make a setup in my home to have two separate routers with their own SSID and for them not to be able to see each other's devices/files/printers. My Pre-filtered master socket will have the HG633 by talktalk and a standard phone line socket will have the DSL-3680 also by talktalk. I need to connect these two somehow, I was thinking an ethernet cable connecting the two from their LANs would work? I'm not sure.

 

Any help appreciated,

@ehazard

Wait a second - the HG633 is a VDSL modem. The DSL-3680 is an ADSL modem.

Why are you using 2 modems?