D-Link Wireless Problems

[ohindeed]

Ok here is the problem from the beginning.

firstly for the last few months ihave been using a NetComm NB1300 PLUS 4 as my modem, and then i purchased a D-Link DI-624S to have wireless internet for my Toshiba Laptop whch i installed with no problems and everything was working fine.... until my NetComm NB1300 PLUS 4 modem stopped working.

so i have just recently purchased an D-Link DSL-502T ADSL2+ Router and connected it up and now have internet on my home computer but now i want to have wireless internet for my laptop so i connected the 'D-Link DI-624S' to the DSL-502T and the internet for my home computer runs fine, but i can not get my wireless to work??

so did i have to re-install my D-Link DI-624S? ?
also my Wireless Network Connection has got a red cross through it.

[johnwill]

I think you need to reconfigure the secondary router. Both of them have the same base address, so the wireless one will not be able to connect through the wired router.

Here's the configuration I'd use.

Connecting two SOHO broadband routers together.

Configure the IP address of the secondary router to be in the same subnet as the primary router, but out of the range of the DHCP server in the primary router. For instance DHCP server addresses 192.168.0.2 through 192.168.0.100, I'd assign the secondary router 192.168.0.254 as it's IP address.

Disable the DHCP server in the secondary router.

Setup the wireless section just the way you would if it was the primary router.

Connect from the primary router's LAN port to one of the LAN ports on the secondary router. If there is no uplink port and neither of the routers have auto-sensing ports, use a cross-over cable. Leave the WAN port unconnected!

This procedure bypasses the routing function (NAT layer) and configures the router as a switch (or wireless access point for wireless routers).