Using cable router for ADSL

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Ok I have switched from vm to sly.
Sly have sent a nice looking router but the adsl cable is quite short and the wifi signal will not reach the other side of the house. As I have the vm router already wired I'm thinking, can I have the sly router near the phone socked and have an ethernet cable running to the vm router to the other end of the house which then outputs the wifi signal? Both are dlink.
 
I think that should work, so you would connect one of the switch ports on the sky router to the wan port on the VM one, just remember to make sure the IP range of addresses are in a different subnet, so if the VM is giving out addresses 192.168.1.x then make the Sky give out addresses in the another subnet 192.168.2.x for example.

I would also disable the wifi on the sky router, or at least make sure the channels are different, if using channel 1 then use 6 or 11 on the other devive.

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If it is the DLink615 why dont you flash it with DD-WRT. (on the VM one)

then you can assign the WAN port to the switch place as you described and use as another hotspot. Mind tell it where the defailt gateway is.

set as DHCP forwarder and put in ip of dhcp server in this case your main router or gateway.

Like said before maje sure your channels are at least 5 apart. You can give both the same SSID and encryption etc so you basically overlap the wifi signal and have roaming so you dont need to change connections when u move laptop or tha from one side of house to the other. or you can just have 2 seperate wifi hotspots with different SSID's etc
 
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Sounding good.

Think i might experiment reflashing it. The roaming thing sounds even better as well.
 
With the seperate ip ranges on it, would it still be an internal network?

What i mean is, i have a dreambox client on 1.5 and a server on 1.3.
The client currently is obviously saying server is on 1.3.
Now on the new setup, can i tell the client to look at 1.3 still or do i have to use an external IP?

Also, if i got port 1234 open on the cable router, i take it i have to also open port 1234 on the adsl router?
and anytime i allow an external device to connect, i have to open the same port twice on both routers?
 
Eh not too sure bout your dreambox n server, but you dont need 2 different subnets, just use the one.

eg, main router on 192.168.1.1 and the other one if u have flashed and asigned WAN port to switch, give that an IP of 192.168.1.254

both with a net mask of 255.255.255.0

so all your devices will be on the same subnet, if you are using DHCP then make sure you have big enough pool to accomodate all your devices.

now the one you have flashed and have done what i said above is no longer a router, it just a switch so shouldn't need ports open for traffic to go trhough if connected at that end.

not sure bout DM server etc but could open port or just stick in in the DMZ for access from outside your network.
 
Eh not too sure bout your dreambox n server, but you dont need 2 different subnets, just use the one.

eg, main router on 192.168.1.1 and the other one if u have flashed and asigned WAN port to switch, give that an IP of 192.168.1.254

both with a net mask of 255.255.255.0

so all your devices will be on the same subnet, if you are using DHCP then make sure you have big enough pool to accomodate all your devices.

now the one you have flashed and have done what i said above is no longer a router, it just a switch so shouldn't need ports open for traffic to go trhough if connected at that end.

not sure bout DM server etc but could open port or just stick in in the DMZ for access from outside your network.


Ah i see what you mean now!
 
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