Can I connect the wireless router to the regular router?

I already have a regular router that's connected with 2 desktop computers. I just bought a new labtop and is planning to use a wireless router for this labtop and continue to use the regular router for those 2 desktop computers.


Can I connect the wireless router to the regular router? Will it work? And Is there a suck thing as 1 to 2 DSL wire? So that I can connect to with router from my DSL moden.|||You can but why would you want to?





No DSL requires all the wires. Your wireless router should have jacks for you to plug your PC's in to.|||Yes, just setup the wireless router as an Access Point. It is easy.. only 2 things you need to do:





1) Disable DHCP on the wireless router.


2) Connect the wireless router to the wired router using a LAN to LAN connection (I.E. 1 of the lan ports on each)|||sure, it should work fine.





Most new routers come with a setup program that will scan for other routers on the network and make the right choices for you.





One DSL line is all you need, the router will handle the splitting for you.





Just be sure that only ONE of your routers is serving up DHCP addresses. The setup program should take care of that for you.|||You can connect the wireless router to the regular router.





If you connect the LAN port of the original router to the WAN port of the wireless make sure the LAN subnet of the wireless router is not the same as the LAN subnet of the wireless (e.g. if the original router uses the subnet 192.168.0.0/24 you cannot use 192.168.0.0/24 subnet for the wireless LAN; instead change the wireless LAN to a different one, e.g. 192.168.1.0/24; note the 24 means 24 bit subnet or 255.255.255.0 and that a 192.168.0.0 / 24 subnet would likely have the router ip as 192.168.1.0 and a 192.168.1.0 / 24 would likely have the router ip as 192.168.1.1) and make sure that LAN IP addresses via DHCP are consistent with the subnet. In this mode, you cannot share files from wireless pc to wired pcs as they are on different subnets unless you set up a routing table to permit this.





Alternatively you can disable DHCP on the wireless router, set its IP address in the same subnet as the original router but not the same as the original (e.g. original router IP address is 192.168.0.1, make wireless 192.168.0.2) and connect LAN port of original router to LAN port of second router. This makes the wireless router a wireless access point and does not use the routing ability of the wireless but it will work. In fact all you really needed was an access point.





The only reason to use two routers is if you plan to use the laptop at a distance so far from the original router that it would not function - and you needed to put the wireless access point closer to the point of laptop use. Unless I needed this I would just retire the original router.