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prestons · 05-06-2008, 08:51 PM

I'm guessing that the FVS318 is where the internet connection is coming in & it is also acting as the DHCP server for the network. My personal experience with this is to let the wireless router be just a wireless switch. the way to do that is to statically assign it an ip on the same subnet as all the other computers, but not in the DHCP pool. (ex. DHCP pool is: 192.168.1.100-.150 assign the Dlink an ip of 192.168.1.10 which is an ip NOT in the DHCP pool) now configure it with the wireless settings you choose & then make sure that you DISABLE DHCP on the wireless Dlink. almost there, now make one of those existing cables or purchase a crossover cable & connect it to port 1,2,3 or 4. NOT the WAN port of the Dlink. Now the Dlink has a connection to the the FVS318 & will hand out ip's wirelessly to the wireless clients, via DHCP provided by the FVS318. Thus you have converted the Dlink router into a wireless switch.
Hope this helps!

05-06-2008, 08:51 PM	#2 (permalink)
prestons Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: West Virginia Posts: 53 OS: Xp Pro Sp2 & MacOS X My System	Re: Trouble connecting router to router... I'm guessing that the FVS318 is where the internet connection is coming in & it is also acting as the DHCP server for the network. My personal experience with this is to let the wireless router be just a wireless switch. the way to do that is to statically assign it an ip on the same subnet as all the other computers, but not in the DHCP pool. (ex. DHCP pool is: 192.168.1.100-.150 assign the Dlink an ip of 192.168.1.10 which is an ip NOT in the DHCP pool) now configure it with the wireless settings you choose & then make sure that you DISABLE DHCP on the wireless Dlink. almost there, now make one of those existing cables or purchase a crossover cable & connect it to port 1,2,3 or 4. NOT the WAN port of the Dlink. Now the Dlink has a connection to the the FVS318 & will hand out ip's wirelessly to the wireless clients, via DHCP provided by the FVS318. Thus you have converted the Dlink router into a wireless switch. Hope this helps! __________________ "The failure rate of hard drives is 100% — so it's not if your hard drive will fail, but when..."