HOWTO : Wireless Router connects to Wired Router

*** This tutorial is written on July 16, 2007 by me. I repost it here for reference. The origianl tutorial is here. ***

I have a wired and a wireless routers. I connect them together to make them looking as one router. Then, I can access all the computers within the same intranet.

Router A (connect to the internet)

Step 1 :

I assigned the wired router to be router A which is connected to the internet directly. I did nothing on the Router A. The LAN IP is 192.168.0.1.

Router B (connect to the Router A)

Step 2 :

I assigned the wireless router to be Router B and I should change the settings of it.

WAN -
Set the WAN IP to be static 192.168.111.2, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0 and gateway is 192.168.111.1, no matter your Router B is wired or wireless. For me, Router B is a wireless. (You can change the WAN IP and gateway to meet your requirement, here is only an example)

LAN :
Disabled DHCP and set the LAN IP to 192.168.0.200, subnet mask is 255.255.255.0, no matter your Router B is wired or wireless. (You can change the LAN IP to meet your requirement, here is only an example)

Step 3 :

Connect Router A and Router B via a cable on LAN ports only. WAN port will not be used at the Router B. Connect Router A to the internet as normal. Now, you can access Router A by 192.168.0.1 and Router B by 192.168.0.200 via your browser. Any computer or laptop will be assigned an IP of 192.168.0.XXX.

That’s all! See you.