[thagamex]

Hello

I am currently living for 5 months in a house where somebody was renting the room. This is their networking setup.

They have 2 routers. The first and main router is an all-in-one router + modem. With this router there are no problems and internet connection works fine. The second router is connected through a LAN port from the first router to the WAN port from the second router. Then from the second router all the other three LAN ports are used, from which one of them I am connected.

Now there's this issue with the second router where after one hour the connection just drops. I can't get an IP address anymore. Ipconfig /release /renew gives me 'Unable to contact DHCP server'. I can't even ping the router.

What can I do to solve this? It has a static IP address and gateway & DNS servers are pointed to the first router.

 

[Old Rich]

The second router is connected through a LAN port from the first router to the WAN port from the second router.

That is one problem . . The cable from the first router should connect to one of the LAN ports on the second router. The second router should have been set to act as a simple switch.

For more on using two routers, see this:

http:// Connecting Additional Routers - Tech Support Forum