Greetings,
As a newbie to the wonderful world of networking, I thought that I would get some advice before beginning this little adventure.
I have a Linksys WRT54G in an existing upstairs office, there is one computer connected to it. I have another home office downstairs on the other end of the house. When I first moved my office downstairs, I just ran a Cat 5e from downstairs to the existing WRT54G router upstairs.
That was fine then, this is now!
I now need to add two additional computers downstairs (hardwired) and utilize the wireless portion of my new router. (It is closer to the wireless devices that are using it and the new one is faster!). My room mate has provided a Netgear WNDR3300 for the downstairs office.
I would like to physically connect the Netgear to the Linksys with my existiong cat 5e cable and enable the Netgear to be used as a wireless access point.
1. Is this hard? (can a newbie do it and not kick his wife off the internet for a week while he figures it out?)
2. How EXACTLY would I do this?
Thank you in advance for any and all help...
As a newbie to the wonderful world of networking, I thought that I would get some advice before beginning this little adventure.
I have a Linksys WRT54G in an existing upstairs office, there is one computer connected to it. I have another home office downstairs on the other end of the house. When I first moved my office downstairs, I just ran a Cat 5e from downstairs to the existing WRT54G router upstairs.
That was fine then, this is now!
I now need to add two additional computers downstairs (hardwired) and utilize the wireless portion of my new router. (It is closer to the wireless devices that are using it and the new one is faster!). My room mate has provided a Netgear WNDR3300 for the downstairs office.
I would like to physically connect the Netgear to the Linksys with my existiong cat 5e cable and enable the Netgear to be used as a wireless access point.
1. Is this hard? (can a newbie do it and not kick his wife off the internet for a week while he figures it out?)
2. How EXACTLY would I do this?
Thank you in advance for any and all help...