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    Use g-router and n-router at same time?

    Discussion in 'Networking and Wireless' started by timgrotheer, Oct 13, 2009.

  1. timgrotheer

    timgrotheer Notebook Enthusiast

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    My daughter has an laptop with a wireless-g card and we also have a wireless printer that is wireless-b, I believe. My wife and I have wireless-n in our laptops. I purchased an n-router and still have my g-router. Is there any way to set up our home network so the printer and my daughter's laptop connect to the older router while my wife and I connect thru the n-router?
     
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  2. Alex

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    I think you have several options
    One option is configuring you N router to broadcast N only


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    Alex, Oct 13, 2009
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    Trottel Notebook Virtuoso

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    You can manually connect them to whichever one you want. If you secure those networks, as you should, it is as easy as only giving the password to the devices you want to run on each network to prevent lets say your daughter from possibly connecting to the wireless n network.
     
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    ** PROBLEM IS YOU CAN'T USE MORE THAN ONE ROUTER ON EACH IP ** If you are using Wirelss Access Points instead of Routers, then it would work as the specifications for A, B, G, and N require use of different frequency ranges. Even with two routers on the same frequencies there are 11 channels on wireless G to choose from. Thats why more than one home PC'c can connect up to the same wirless router. As mentioned above, have only one WAP broadcasting in the 54mhz wireless G range at a time to avoid conflicts.
     
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  5. timgrotheer

    timgrotheer Notebook Enthusiast

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    I'm still not understanding what is being said. I have a cable modem with the n-router plugged in currently. Can I connect the g-router WAN to the n-router via a regular ethernet port in the n-router, assign the g-router a different IP and then have my daughter connect to the g-router? Or am I thinking about this wrong?
     
    timgrotheer, Oct 14, 2009
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  6. Trottel

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    You don't need a different IP. I'm not sure what he's talking about. I have two wireless routers at my house daisy chained together and they work fine.
     
    Trottel, Oct 14, 2009
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    firstwardo Notebook Consultant

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    Why use 2 routers? Just have the n-router broadcast at 2.4 ghz and your set! Unless you want it to broadcast at 5ghz...
     
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    He has machines that run on wireless G and B, and others that run at wireless N and he doesn't want the G devices to slow down the wireless N network. He also has both routers already.
     
    Trottel, Oct 14, 2009
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