I have an existing Verizon Actiontec Router.(192.168.1.1 wireless network) and it is wired via phone line dsl to the internet. It has a unique ssid and wpa2.
I want to route local wireless client traffic to the Verizon actiontec internet router from a new Linksys wrt3200 located on another floor. There are no wire connections between the two routers. The wrt3200 is addressed as 192.168.7.1. Its own dhcp is set to provide addrs at 192.168.7.100 to its clients.
Note. I do don have experience with wireless routing. Is this typically done between separate networks? Is there a problem with the Linksys in this regard. At one point a Linksys rep rep said I could set the wrt3200 for a wireless connection type of dhcp. But that does not work and there is no provision for specifying the actiontec ssid anyway. So I don’t know how that would have worked. I do not want to use a wireless bridge mode but want the Linksys clients on their own network. Would a different router provide what I want to do?
I don’t know how to do this. I don’t want to use bridge or extender modes. Everything works but there is no connection between routers so internet access fails of course. Please help.