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I have a Modem and two new and old router, my room and new router is 2nd floor and the old router and modem is 1st floor how do i connect the new router to the modem if i'm upstairs?

 

 

oh and i do game a lot and i'm planning to put ethernet to the new router but if i connect the ethernet will i keep the internet to myself and not distributing the internet?

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Your second router needs to be placed in Access Point Mode (durn off DHCP server functions and give it a static IP). You will want to double check your unit, but often you just connect to the new router by plugging into one of the 4 LAN ports. and then plugging it into one of the LAN ports of the old router. 

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You plug the one router into the other router and like ^^ said you have to turn WAN off, tell it manually that the DHCP address is the address of the first router, disable DHCP, enable DHCP forwarding, etc.

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You plug the one router into the other router and like ^^ said you have to turn WAN off, tell it manually that the DHCP address is the address of the first router, disable DHCP, enable DHCP forwarding, etc.

im Confused af right now :o

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im Confused af right now :o

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point

 

What you want to do is convert the second router into an access point.  If you don't want to run a ethernet cable between the two then you need to look into running the second router as a *wireless repeater*.

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im Confused af right now :o

So from what i can hear, you have a modem/router on first floor, you want to connect it to the router on the second floor.

 

1. If your MODEM has more then one output connecting just run that to your second router.

2. if not run a cable from one the ports on the current router into port 1 on the second router (NOT THE WAN PORT ON THE SECOND ROUTER, JUST ANY ONE OF THE FOUR PORTS) 

 

this should make your router a access point/network switch

 

EDIT: True this sometimes on older routers will make the second router the "host" and it will hand out the DHCP ips, but this really doesn't matter 90% of the time for most people, if possible turn OFF DHCP on the second router. google it if you dont know how to

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