Hello! I do my best to help people on here so now hopefully all you wonderfull people will help me. I've googled this many different ways but i'm not finding that to be of any help. I actually have 3 linksys wireless routers, a WRT54G, WRT55AG, and a BEFW11S4. However I only want to use 2 of them. The main is the WRT54G and I use that as a wired and wireless router...the IP for that one is 192.168.1.3 That works just fine for everything, but I want to setup one of the other linksys routers waaaayyyy at the other end of the house and connect the two. I already have a cat5 cable ran from one end of the house to the other to connect both linksys boxes together. How do I configure them to talk to each other so that when I plug my laptop in to the LAN port it will connect to the internet. I want to be able to sit on the couch with my laptop plugged into the living room linksys which connects to the bedroom linksys via the already ran cat 5 cable and out to the internet. Can you please help me? If you need more info I will be glad to post it. thanks in advance. oh by the way i've already downloaded and installed the latest firmware on all the boxes. And, in case you are thinking why don't I just use the already ran cat5 cable and plug it into my laptop...well thats because i have other things in the living room i will be connecting to this 2nd linksys box. I have 4 computers plugged into the 4 lan ports of the linksys box in the bedroom and i have 3 more devices that I want connected to my LAN in the living room. thanks.

Do whatever you have to do to make sure that both routers are physically connected, first. Once the physical connection is made, disable DHCP on the second router that you just want to be able to plug into and browse the internet. Make sure it has a LAN IP address on the same subnet as the main router, and it should work. Make sure DHCP is enabled on the main router. All you are doing here is daisy-chaining the switches in the routers together. The "routing" feature of the second router will never be used. Hope that helps.

thank you for your help. I guess I was thinking to hard on this one. I've been reading about different linksys firmwares to put the router in client or bridge mode and I thought that was what I had to do. I'm at work right now so i'll try this when i get home and let you know how it goes. thanks again!

ok I got home and did what you said...you were right!!! thank you so much for your help. One last question....I've disabled wireless since I wont use it on this router, i've changed the default password but is there anything else I need to do to secure it or will it be ok sitting behind the original linksys box? thanks again for everything!

No, nothing else. Right now all you have is a simple 4-port switch. Glad I could help.

May I impose on your knowledge... I have done the same thing and have 2 routers, but the reason is so that my daughter can use her wireless connection upstairs.. I have bought an new Netgear (811g) router and it connected to the network without any fuss.. Now I took the SMC (which was working ok) router and put it upstairs.. I took one of the wires which were connected to the router downstairs and linking my son's computer and pluged it into the LAN port of the SMC.. then from there I connected my son's computer to the second router... It does not work.. Any suggestions?