Guest WiFi

[DragonTamer1]

So pardon my ignorance when it comes to the subject, but I'm a Scrubosaurus Rex when it comes to networking.

 

I just installed a new router today and it comes with more speed and better wireless. It has been moved from the worst position in the house to right in the middle so that now every room gets decent coverage (pain in the ass to rerun all those wires though).

 

I'm now left with this old router that I wanted to do something with. I thought about setting it back up as a guest wireless access point (and maybe connecting the xbox to it). My understanding is that to best do this I should configure it so that the ethernet coming from one of the outputs on the new router go into the WAN port on the old one (which I've done). Then I need to configure the settings in the old router so that the second to last digit in the IP is a 2 since the new router is a 1 (xxx.xxx.2.x) the problem is that I'm not sure where exactly in the router to do this.

 

The old router is a Actiontec MI424-WR and the online tutorials are very unhelpful.

 

Any input would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

 

[Dargenfire]

The problem with having one router chained to another is doubling up on stuff like DHCP (which dynamically assigns internal IP addresses to devices when they connect to a router), and that gets real messy real fast.

 

Just give people your password to the router.

[Donut417]

2 hours ago, DragonTamer1 said:

So pardon my ignorance when it comes to the subject, but I'm a Scrubosaurus Rex when it comes to networking.

 

I just installed a new router today and it comes with more speed and better wireless. It has been moved from the worst position in the house to right in the middle so that now every room gets decent coverage (pain in the ass to rerun all those wires though).

 

I'm now left with this old router that I wanted to do something with. I thought about setting it back up as a guest wireless access point (and maybe connecting the xbox to it). My understanding is that to best do this I should configure it so that the ethernet coming from one of the outputs on the new router go into the WAN port on the old one (which I've done). Then I need to configure the settings in the old router so that the second to last digit in the IP is a 2 since the new router is a 1 (xxx.xxx.2.x) the problem is that I'm not sure where exactly in the router to do this.

 

The old router is a Actiontec MI424-WR and the online tutorials are very unhelpful.

 

Any input would be appreciated, thanks in advance.

 

At lot of router have guest SSID's you can setup. These create a isolated wireless network that wont have access to your home network. Just allows to access the internet on the guest network. So you might check your routers settings. My old Wireless N router has this. I can setup a easy password for the guest network. 

[DragonTamer1]

I found the setting on my new router that allows for guest connections. It wasn't available during the initial setup so I was under the assumption that it was just a general firmware package attached to a wide variety of routers that may or may not have the feature.

 

I was also able to successfully bridge the old router to the new one to expand my WiFi (sort of). It needs to be moved to a better location but it should give the old router the ability to cover the back room and the back yard that currently have no connection... I just need a longer ethernet cable...

[Guest]

9 hours ago, Dargenfire said:

The problem with having one router chained to another is doubling up on stuff like DHCP (which dynamically assigns internal IP addresses to devices when they connect to a router), and that gets real messy real fast.

 

Just give people your password to the router.

DHCP isn't really the issue - you can have 400 DHCP servers on a network if you really want to provided they're setup correctly. The bigger problem is NAT and PAT