Router hook up to another router

[GTT1]

Staying at a place that has internet and the apartment I am in has the cable modem and it is hooked up to a router which feeds internet to 3 other apartments.

Is it possible to take my connection from the router and hook it up to the incoming connection on my router then use the wireless function of my router with my laptop?

Tried but get no connection.

[Hello-]

Possible IP conflicts between the 2 routers?

[Asad_A203]

Possible IP conflicts between the 2 routers?

That shouldn't be an issue, the laptop still goes through the router which is assigned whatever IP it was originally given he has the router functioning with DHCP.

Check your router to see if it actually leased an IP to your laptop or ping your router from your laptop. I doubt your laptop and router is communicating and not actually an issue with having a router connected to a router

[olympic]

You'll have to turn off DHCP on your router. This basically changes the router into a switch. You can only have 1 router giving out IP's on a subnet.

[ItemFinder]

You'll have to turn off DHCP on your router. This basically changes the router into a switch. You can only have 1 router giving out IP's on a subnet.

The correct term is access point.

[GTT1]

You'll have to turn off DHCP on your router. This basically changes the router into a switch. You can only have 1 router giving out IP's on a subnet.

Thanks I will give that a try.

[Gee]

Just plug your cable into port 4 on your router. DO NOT PLUG IT INTO THE WAN PORT.

Then disable DHCP and you are good to go.

[Matrixvibe]

Go into router settings first, disable DCHP, then plug in the cable from main router to port 1 of your router, just dont plug it into WAN, and you'll be good to go!

[Gee]

Go into router settings first, disable DCHP, then plug in the cable from main router to port 1 of your router, just dont plug it into WAN, and you'll be good to go!

Isn't that what I just said?

[macuser]

Also change the default IP of the second router, turn off upnp, "gaming mode", or whatever useless features it might have if you're using it as an AP.

[Gee]

If you disable DHCP, you don't need to worry about the default IP.

[infamouskid]

dhcp has to be off. your also forgetting nat and firewall should be disabled on the second router behind the modem as well.
otherwise you will run into issues with certain protocols and services.
it just requires more configuration for the 2 to work in harmony.
dhcp, nat and firewall should all be handled by router 1.
op what are you trying to do exactly?

[Gee]

op what are you trying to do exactly?

He wants to use a wireless connection for his notebook. Says so in his original post.

[mexanh]

Is it the same thing if he plugs in LAN port and assign a router IP??

[Matrixvibe]

Isn't that what I just said?

My bad, lol, i clicked post reply at the top before i scrolled down.