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Hello, I need to connect two DLink wireless routers (DIR655) to one DLink wired router (DIR130). the two wireless routers will be in both ends of the building and connected to the wired router in its LAN port. The wired router will be the one handling the internet connection.

I am hoping someone who has done this could give me advise so I wont spend too much time trying to get this to work.


Thank you.

ikehiker

I haven't done it with D-Link equipment but what has worked on other brands is to access the setup utility on the wireless routers, disable DHCP, change the LAN IP on each router to something different from 192.168.0.1 (the first three number sets stay the same but the last number needs to be changed. I'd use something far from '1' - probably 192.168.0.100 and 192.168.0.200. When you change the number, you'll need to log back on since you'll lose the access to the settings utility). It would be best to make the changes by having a wire connection to each router but once the changes have been made, you'll want to plug the cables from the wired router to one of the LAN ports on both wireless routers (that is, do not use the WAN port on the wireless routers). You may actually need a crossover cable for these connections but most modern devices are autosensing and a normal cable will work.

You will also probably need to set the SSID on the two WiFi routers to different names and use a different channel. I think D-Links typically use channel 6 as the default so I would change one of them to 1 or 11 (use only 1, 6, and 11 since all other channels overlap one or more of these and will cause interference).

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