Ok... not sure if this can be done or not, but I figured I would ask... Here is the situation; This is at my workplace. We run fractional T1 line that is connected to the server where all the stuff I need is located... Now the fractional T1 is pretty slow... The company just expanded and bought the offices next door, and for them they got a business RR line mostly wireless and much faster but it cant access the server... Basically all the computers in one office are on a router and can access the server, and all the computers in the office next door are on a seperate router and can not access the server... Is there a way that I can either jump from the fractional T1 line to the RR line and still access the server like normal, or maybe have the fractional T1 and the RR line going into my computer to access the server? I'm trying to figure out a way in which I can have the benifits of speed from the RR line and still be able to access the server. Unfortunatly I dont know a huge amount about these server/network type issues. Any help would be appriciated! Thanks! Chris

what is a rr line mostly wireless? I work with T1's etc and have never encountered this terminology. Who ever ordered this rr line wasn't thinking of the big picture. conecting them is easy. you don't mention the number of users so I will pick a number. In this case a 24 port switch. The T1 router connects to the switch as does the RR router. All pcs connect to the switch. Now you have one network physically. Next issue is ip subnet. They all need to be in the same subnet. If you are getting ip from the server you would need to change the ip of the lan side of the rr router to be in your ip subnet. All the 2nd office pcs would get their ip from the server so you may have to increase the ip scope on the dhcp server. Then the issue becomes how to deal with two gateways. You can have multiple gateways in the tcp/ip properties. If doing from dhcp though you would have to set one as primary and one as secondary and everyone would get that config. You would have been better off getting a 3meg DSL connection or upgrade the T1 to a Point to Point so you get the full bandwidth of 1.5mbps which you don't get with Frame Relay. Golly gee wilerkers everyone. Learn to Internet Search

Wanderer's solution is good if your company is willing to spend the money for a switch, setup and config. But if they are cheap skates who depend on the IT guy to "make it work", then you have a bit of a challenge. I didn't get enough info from your question to determine whether the routers are gateways to the Internet acting separately right now ( two different companies until now). But if so, they probably have a fixed address leased from the ISP. I also didn't get the physical arrangement of these routers. Are they in the same closet? In any case, if you have to make do with the current equipment, then a VPN between the two networks (the two routers) is a possible solution. It ain't pretty, but it would work. You'd have to establish routing on both sides so if traffic from Network A, for example, needs to go to network B, the translation from the internal address on A to the external address recognized by B can take place. If this didn't make any sense ( I tried to make it as vernacular as possible) then it may be time to beg your management to bring in a pro for this job. Of course if they're cheapskates...oh well, you know how that goes. Good luck, Chris.