Networking routers - Part 2

Well.....today isn't Monday but oh well Monday was iPad rant. Well i'm sure you were all riveted by the massive cliff hanger. Well you weren't but on well. YES SO WHAT I DID. What I did was dug up an old router so now I have three. I then turned the second and third router into an access point. This is like something you would see in a school or your workplace where there  is a large area to cover wirelessly or otherwise. I did this by turning off all DHCP things and UPnP on the access point routers. I then changed all the routers the the same wireless name but on different channels (1,6 and 13 i did because they are the furthest apart). Then I changed they IP address on the two extra routers to something different to the default but outside the DHCP range set on the primary router eg.

default = 192.168.0.1
DCHP range = 192.168.0.100 to 192.168.0.199
Router 1 = 192.168.0.1
Router 2 = 192.168.0.2
Router 3 = 192.168.0.2

Now after that you just need to plug them in. The order you do this is not important (eg. 192.168.0.2 can go into 192.168.0.3). Just make sure they both end up connected to router 1. The must important step is to connect the routers between two LAN ports not the WAN ports (port internet modem connects into on the main router).

I connected mine up like Router 1<->2<->3 but you could do 3<->1<->2. The later configuration would mean router 3 and 2 can not communicate though.

Well this has been incredibly geeky as far as past posts have gone:) Hardly anyone will understand it......that will probably because of grammar errors rather that geek levels though.

OH WELL. Next post will most likely be on the iPhone OS4 as the sneak peek is Thursday.
AndrewCow