How do you daisy chain routers?

i have a wireless router and a non-wireless router. the wireless one is linksys-G and needs to be first (connected to the modem). I ran a long ethernet cable from the wireless router to my upstairs computer, but now, i need to connect another computer upstairs. without running another 100ft cord from my basement to my upstairs, can i just set up a belkin router up there and split the connection for another computer? running another cable up there would require a lot of work, cutting holes in the ceiling, respackling, repainting, and buying another 100ft cable.


how do i just connect the router and make it act only as a switch?

How do you daisy chain routers?
Connect one of the ports from your wired router into the WAN or Internet port of your wireless router.





This can be extremely difficult to do, and always creates more headache than it's worth.





You would probably have much better reliability if you were to use a network switch instead of the other router. Network switches (or hubs) are quite affordable these days.
Reply:All you need is the wireless router you already have and a new linksys wireless usb module. Your router can use both the wired and wireless internet sharing all at once so no worries about your old setup. Just enable your wireless capabilities on the router and plug the usb module into the new computer.





As for using the second router as a switch it wouldn't work. Your first router would assign the second router an IP of 192.168.1.xyz on the WAN port which would confuse it as this is what it will assign to the pc's in it's ports 1%26amp;2. If you only used the second routers numbered ports it wouldn't share the internet at all, treating its port as a computer not an internet feed. Hope this gives you some perspective.
Reply:Do NOT use 2 routers on the same network, a router is for passing local network traffic to the internet and back. The second one will try to do the same and will upset the network. All you need upstairs is a switch, this connects multiple machines to the cable.

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