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Originally Posted by McG
this is a great thread. the dlink 815 is a simultaneous dual band router so you can assign different devices to the 2.4 or the 5.0 networks.
when i set up my shaw docsis 3.0 router, i disabled the wireless on it and plugged my linksys router with wireless into it to provide the same dual band functionality. i did not reassign IP addresses or anything like that and so far everything works fabu. of course, i am only using one lan port on the docsis router, but i have a gigabit switch behind the linksys router to give me extra ports. i do not have the shaw router operating in bridge mode.
i was just wondering if someone could explain why my setup works...but hockeypuck and others have had to manually assign IP addresses in their solution? i'm not sure why mine works when i didn't do any of that stuff. thanks!
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McG,
I'm going to try your setup tonight. A couple questions. So when you plug your network cable into your Linksys coming from the Cisco, is it plugged into the LAN port or the internet port?
Did you have to keep the SSID that's assigned to your Cisco or can you make up your own?
Sorry if these are dumb questions.
