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Originally Posted by CKPThunder
It sounds like you are running two routers in sequence McG. Instead of doing this, why don't you just turn on bridging for your Shaw router? Why have two routers running back-to-back doing the same routing function? You could create some confusion though if you ever turned on wireless on your Shaw router or plugged in a computing device into one of the LAN ports on the Shaw router.
For Hockeypuck, if the wireless from his D-link router is able to give him satisfactory wireless coverage from its upstairs location, then I would also suggest to him that he gets his Cisco router set into bridge mode and use his D-link as his home router. If he does this, then the network connection from his Cisco would go into his WAN(internet) port on his D-link. For some reason, I thought he wanted two wireless AP's to give himself adequate coverage throughout his house.
The reason why Hockeypuck needed to assign a static IP to his D-link is that the router cannot accept a DCHP address from the LAN ports. This is according to the D-link manual on page 11.
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hi CKPT. thanks for your thoughts to my post. i mentally treat the shaw cisco as a modem, although of course it is more than that. i have plugged directly into the shaw cisco router and things seemed to work fine...but that was only to test the speed! maybe if i was doing other things it would cause an issue...and it was only for a short time. i don't think i will ever turn the shaw wireless on; your note tells me to keep the wireless turned off on the shaw!
is there any "danger" to having 2 routers running like i have them? everything seems to be working as expected 3 weeks in.
thanks for the explanation on the DCHP on hockeypuck's d-link. that makes sense!