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Connecting modem/router to wireless router
LockedI have BT Voyager 190 modem router that I would like to connect to another wireless router (TPLINK 641G). I’ll call BT Voyager as router 1 and TP LINK as router 2. BT Voyager connects to BT socket for DSL. Now router 2 does not have built-in modem – that is why I want to link router 1 that has built-in modem in it to feed router 2 with internet and share it to other pc’s as well as wirelessly. I set up router1 and tested it on its own connecting direcly to pc, configuring it as to have ip of 192.168.1.1 and Internet works fine. When I connect router 1 to WAN port of router 2 – 2nd router gets Internet IP adderss as well as DNS server ip address – but does not share internet connection at all. I set up the second router to be with ip of 192.168.1.5 and enabled DHCP to be out of range of first and second routers. From pc I can ping second router – the one that connects to pc – but I cannot ping the first one. I can ping DNS server and internet ip address. Do I need to set up some sort of routing for the 1st router to pass internet to the other one and that the other one could share it? I connect second router to my pc using CAT5 straight ethernet cable. I tried all sorts of combinations – but nothing works. In the first routers settings I also have to set it up not to use NAT but opt to PPP extention – this way second router picks up internet IP address from the first one – otherwise it would nit want to pickup LAN IP address for the WAN port sayig that LAN and WAN cannot coexist. Please help set this whole thing up.