Using 2 routers at home

armour87

First off, is this possible!?

Our original Netopia router has never had any problems and I've altered settings easily enough in the past to access Xbox Live etc.

What Im planning to do now is to use a second router at home. The new one (which is actually someone elses old one) is a Netgear DG834GT. Its picking up the DSL alrite but won't show web pages. I tried ipconfig and accessed the router settings after finding the appropriate passwords online. All I need now is to know what settings to edit in this new routers page in order to browse the web and play xbox.

I've had a look on portforward.com but I can't seem to find the right thing.

I remember on our Netopia I had to change firewall settings and instruct it to accept xbox live but I can't see anything similar here at the minute.

Any help, much appreciated.

Ta.

watty

one router per phone line.

ethernet

You can only have one using your DSL connection at a time unless you put one intro bridging mode (assuming it supports it).

Have the same Netgear. You need to create a new firewall rule for port forwarding (running latest firmware -- it was a little different on older firmware).

dub45

If you are thinking of trying to extend the wireless range you need equipment that is wds compatible or some of the power stuff that the likes of netgear do.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wireless_Distribution_System

http://netgear.co.uk/extra/wallplugged_range_extender_wgxb102.php