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I'm trying to cascade my network to get better wireless reception in my room and more LAN ports for more devices.

The first/primary router (CH7486E Wireless Voice Gateway) is located in the apartment living room and was supplied by my ISP (Comhem AB) and it is connected into the wall with a special cable to get access to their network (they provide internet, telephone land line and television). This is a wireless router and provides internet access to mine and my room mate's devices. I also have a cable drawn from it to my workstation (without WiFi).

Now I want to connect that cable in to a second router (D-Link DIR-655) and then connect the workstation to that 2nd router, as well as my second computer and a NAS, and my Xbox, and I want to use it wirelessly to connect my laptop to it as well (the primary router is so far away that the WiFi signal is rather low).

The 1st router has IP 192.168.0.1 and UPnP enabled (not sure if it matters) This router also acts as a DHCP Server with Starting Local Address: 192.168.0.2 Operation Mode is set to Routing (NAT on)

There are also some WAN Settings in this router that I don't know how to change, and I don't know if they need to be entered in the second router or so. Not sure if it is a security risk to post them here, so I censor them somewhat.

IPv4 Address: 83.248.xx.xx
IPv4 Default Gateway: 83.248.x.x 
IPv4 DNS Servers: 83.255.xxx.xx and 193.150.xxx.xxx

If I type the Default Gateway into a browser it's not leading anywhere. Isn't the Default Gateway usually 255.255.255.0?

The 2nd router has IP 192.168.0.2 and both UPnP and DHCP Server is disabled. There is no connection type called "bridge" in this router so I just left it as is, and the DNS settings are left as is as well, set to dynamic. Should they be set to the same ones as noted from the 1st router above or something?

From my workstation I can get access to both routers via their IP adresses, so the routers seems to be communicating with each other, but I can't get access to the internet. In Windows (Windows 10) I have set it to get a dynamic IP.

I've tried PING and TRACERT to google via IP but without success.

tracert 173.194.222.113
Request timed out.
Transmit error: code 1231.

ping 173.194.222.113
PING: transmit failed. General failure.

The inner network seems to be working, I can share files between my devices regardless of witch router the device is connected to, but I don't get internet access from the second router, regardless whether I connect to it via cable or wireless.

My problem is I can't figure out where the problem is:

  1. Is it settings in Windows that's the problem?
  2. Is the 2nd router not "taking" internet access from the first router, or...
  3. Is the 1st router not "giving" internet access to the second router?
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  • Your not giving any real, useful information that is relavent... If the D-Link has DHCP disabled, a static IP on the LAN side and the feed from the first router is connected to a LAN port, your configuration is correct... What is the output of `ipconfig /all" connected to the second router's LAN port?
    – acejavelin
    Commented Jul 3, 2016 at 15:57
  • I'll rig it up again as soon as I can and run a 'ipconfig /all' to see what it says.
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 3, 2016 at 21:46
  • Kristoffer: How are the two routers connected? That is, is the 1st router connected to the 2nd's "LAN" port, or the "WAN" port? If there's no "bridge" option, it's not enough to just disable DHCP – you still have to bypass the whole "router" part by connecting everything to the "LAN" ports only.
    – grawity_u1686
    Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 6:21
  • The two routers are connected via the LAN-ports, not WAN. So on the second router one LAN-port is connected to router 1 and the other LAN-port is to connect the second router to the computer.
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 4, 2016 at 19:05
  • It's downhill I'm afraid. Now I can't even connect to the router admin. So I tried resetting it to factory settings, then I connected to the admin page and did all the settings again, but the now the Default Gateway is blank when I do ipconfig in cmd. And after a minute or so, the connection to the router admin via IP is not working any more. To clarify, if I reset the router and do all the setting again the router admin works for a few minutes, but then it stops, and I can't connect to it, it just say that that page isn't available, and yes I do connect to the new IP (192.168.0.2).
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 1:00

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(May be edited later based on more information)

  1. No, Windows should just be set to automatically acquire IP information (the default setting). The DHCP from router 1 should be everything the Computer needs.

2&3. The routers do not give or take Internet from either one... Router 1 is the router providing DHCP and other network services including the gateway to the Internet. The second router is essentially a switch, dumbed down to do nothing but act as a switch (and possibly an Access Point) only and perform no routing at all. Essentially it's a dumb "hub" only.

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  • But where do you suggest I start looking for the problem? Why can't the second router access the internet when the first one can, and the 2nd can access the 1st router itself. What more information can I give you to help you, help me? :)
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 3, 2016 at 21:39
  • It's downhill I'm afraid. Now I can't even connect to the router admin. So I tried resetting it to factory settings, then I connected to the admin page and did all the settings again, but the now the Default Gateway is blank when I do ipconfig in cmd. And after a minute or so, the connection to the router admin via IP is not working any more. To clarify, if I reset the router and do all the setting again the router admin works for a few minutes, but then it stops, and I can't connect to it, it just say that that page isn't available, and yes I do connect to the new IP (192.168.0.2).
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 1:00
  • All I can say is get router1 working... then config router2 before you connect it, give it a static IP on the LAN side that is not in router1's DHCP range and not used elsewhere and then disable it's DHCP. Connect a LAN port from router1 to a LAN port of router2. That is it, nothing more to it, I've done it dozens of times.
    – acejavelin
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 1:06
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    Unfortunately, that is exactly what I do, and it still doesn't work. And I have no idea of where I should start looking for the error. From all sources from the internet it sounds like it should be straight forward, but not for me apparently.
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 12, 2016 at 1:15
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    I dug out an old laptop and tried, same problem. So screw it! I gave in and bought a new router, fiddle a little with it and now it is up and perfectly :) The new router has got 2400 Mbps rather then 300, so I probably needed to upgrade any way in order to stream video over WiFi. I also found a lot of other forum post about the DIR-655 having problem accessing the internet and none of their solutions worked for me. Thank you very, VERY much for your patience and support - it has been invaluable! You'll the hero of day! ;) Cheers!
    – Kristoffer Helander
    Commented Jul 13, 2016 at 15:36

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