Ok so I just wanna Know if this is possible cause i have two routers one wireless and one regular were not using the regular one cause well its pointless, but i was just wondering outta curiosity, can you hock a router to a router using the RJ-45 from the router(connetcted to modem) to the WAN of the second router and be able to have full internet bandwidth of the internet as if u were using one router also can u all be in the same workgroup, for easier mental images i have made a diagram using the almight paint rofl lol, and posted it on tinypic.com here is the link to my nasty diagram, it is all color coded and the weird grey boxes are suppose to be 3 computers http://i5.tinypic.com/2md3vrl.jpg PC: CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ RAM: 1GB DDR 400 HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce 6150 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB DDR2 533MHz HDD: 160GB GPU: Mob R

What you are proposing can be made to work providing to connect the DLink to one of the Linksys LAN ports via a crossover cable. If you connect to the WAN port it wont work because the Lynksys will be getting a private IP address that won't be routable and will be ignored. It wont do anything for your Internet bandwidth. That is determined by your ISP and modem talking to each other and nothing will change that. Unless you disable DHCP on the Lynksys the two computers on that router will be on a different network the the one connected to the Dlink. There is really not much to be achieved with this setup unless there is some reason why you cannot run two cables to the Dlink instead of just the one as shown in the diagram. Retrictions on cabling is the only possible reason for using this setup. Stuart

well i only have one really long cable but i guess it wont work cause its a regular cable not a patch cable but i was just wondering cause it seemed interesting kk thx :) PC: CPU: Athlon 64 3200+ RAM: 1GB DDR 400 HDD: 20GB ex wont give me back my 250 :S GPU: Geforce 6150 Laptop: CPU: Turion 64 x2 Tl-50 RAM: 2GB DDR2 HDD: 160GB GPU: Mo x1600

The term "patch cable" usually refers to the cable running from a patch panel port to a switch. It is also frequently used to refer to the cable going from walljack (or switch) to a PC. What you need to connect two like devices (ie: router to router, switch to switch, PC to PC etc) is a crossover cable which differs in how it's wired from the "straight through" or "regular" network cable (aka, patch cable).

Cable Modem > WAN Port Dlink > PORT 1 Linksys switch (do not use WAN) (enable linksys as gateway device) >< computers Run DHCP on the dlink, disable (if optional since forced as gateway) DHCP in linksys router - same network otherwise just purchase a switch Cable>Dlink>switch><pc's yup!