Wireless Internet Access - Wrt54G/RT31P2

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 2

I have comcast cable internet. I have had success running a Linksys WRT54G Broadband Router, with both wired and wireless connections. I just added a Linksys RT31P2 Broadband Vonage router between my cable modem and my WRT54G, ie MODEM->RT31P2->WRT54G. The wired ports on the WRT54G work just fine. My wireless notebook still sees the WRT54G wireless router, but I cannot access the Internet from the wireless connection.

Can somebody grant me the wisdom to see what silly setting needs to be changed for this to work.

Thanks

Tom Pietrzak

Posts: 2 · New Forum Member Joined: Jan 26, 2005 Posts: 2

Please ignore the previous post. I have figured it all out.

Tom Pietrzak

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:02 pm Post subject:

tpietrzak wrote:

Please ignore the previous post. I have figured it all out.

Tom Pietrzak

Well, this is a first... LOL

Hey Tom, please post your solution for future readers of this post.

Posts: 44 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2005 Posts: 44

Yes please post what was your problem. I haven't yet gotten to testing my wireless connection yet, but intend to do o tonight or tomorrow. Just in case I hit a snag, would be good to know a pitfall in advance to look for.

Posts: 41 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2005 Posts: 41

I have a WRT54G and the RT31P2. For the past few weeks I have had the RT plugged into an output of the 54G, and everything worked great, except sometimes people told me they couldn't hear me well on the phone, and my voice sounded robotic at times. I decided to put the RT inline right after the cable modem to get rid of any QOS issues that might be causing the problem.

So this morning I did that. I enabled DHCP on the RT, disabled DHCP on the 54G. Called the 54G 192.168.1.1 and the RT 192.168.1.2. Told the RT to give out address starting at 192.168.1.100. I figured that I needed the 54G to just function as a switch, so I plugged 1 of the 3 RT outs into 1 of the 4 54G ports. That worked great for my computers hard-wired, but I had no wireless internet. I could login to both routers wireless, but not get out on the internet. I took the cable out of the Port 4 on the 54G and plugged it into the WAN port. Now I could get on the internet wireless, but my hardwired computers are out of luck. So I had to take 2 outputs of the RT, and plug 1 into PORT 1 on the 54G and 1 into the WAN port.

Not sure if that's the way it is supposed to work or not.

Posts: 62 · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:15 pm Post subject:

That is definately a make shift way around your problem. If I recall you need to take account the number of available users also in the Linksys main menu. My parents have 2 wireless routers at home daisy chained with no issues connecting wired or wireless to either (one running 802.11b and the other g) that I set up. I'll try to poke my head over there when I get home from work to see how I have all the settings.

You could also try using Linksys "live support" I have used it before to get old firmware needed for a few routers that weren't available via their website. Not to bad of service as long as you can wait for your turn.

Posts: 79 · Posted: Thu Jan 27, 2005 1:25 pm Post subject:

Ok, so u put the Vonage RT first & the WRT behind it. Why did u feel it neccessary to change the local IP address of the Vonage RT? It is different than the WRT, so there is no conflict there. Also, both of them should remain set for Obtain An IP Address Automatically (DHCP), unless u plan on setting static IP's.

Posts: 41 · Full Forum Member Joined: Jan 19, 2005 Posts: 41

If I have my 54G set up as 192.168.1.1, and leave the RT31 as 192.168.15.1, then I can never log in to 1 of them, depending on who I have giving out DHCP. Disabling the DHCP on the second one in the chain, and putting them both in the 192.168.1.x subnet puts the whole house on the same subnet, and I can login to both routers from 1 computer.

Posts: 79 · Posted: Fri Jan 28, 2005 8:38 am Post subject:

Tru

Posts: 6 · New Forum Member Joined: Feb 11, 2005 Posts: 6

Hi, I am not a highly technical person and have a problem. Please help.
Using murphyrulez's instuctions from this post, I set up my Vonage modem to be ahead of the router. Now the problem is whether I use the phone or not, my Internet connection has become noticably slow. Below are the details of the setup. (It is the same as murphyrulez's setup). Please advise what to do to get the phone what it needs and at the same time be able to enjoy the power of broadband surfing.

I was able to do the folowing connection:

COMCAST INTERNET -> RT31P2 -> WRT54G

and from WRT54G to my wireless computers and one direct connection back to RT31P2 making it accessible wirelessly. Followed the same instructions as the user in the above posted forum and got the exact same result. My RT31P2 is not 192.168.1.2 and WRT54G is 192.168.1.1. Both of them are accessible over a wireless connection and have Internet connection too. However, the connection is noticably slow (and I mean almost like dial up).

When I restore to COMCAST INTERNET -> WRT54G -> RT31P2, ecerything is fine, except when the computer is in use and the phone also, then there is echo.

Now I have read these Qos settings stuff and I don't understand what to try. I believe my COMCAST connection is 3 Megabits download, don't know the upload. The problem is with download and general surfing. Please advise what settings to change and where to get better results.

Thanks