I have a double router network. The first router connects two computers and a second router to the internet. The second router connects two other computers to the first router. This means I have 4 computers on the internet. There is one problem: the two computers on the second router can't see the computers on the first router. I mean that I can't share files or printers between them. What I have done so far, is this: I have made it so that the first router is seen as an ISP to the second router. The second router is using static DHCP so that it doesn't have to change IP's every so often. Therefore, I am able to access the internet through every computer. However, as mentioned above, I have no LAN capabilities. I heard that the second router would have to be put in switch mode. However, this router is a D-Link Di-604, and doesn't seem to have this option. Please help, thanks sjd9910 "Gimme gimme!!!" -Bill Gates

This is a post that has been answered here many times. Search would have given you the answer already. You have to disable dhcp on the 2nd router. You have to connect from lan port on first router to lan port on 2nd router. This way 2nd router is just a switch and all pcs are in the same dhcp scope so you will have lan Give a person a fish you feed them for a day. Ask a person to internet search and they learn a skill for a lifetime.

"Switch Mode" means to disable the DHCP Server in the router configuration menu. Then all the clients will get an IP assignment from the first router in the network and "see" each other on the same Workgroup.

Wanderer is 100% correct. That question comes up at least twice a week. I don't understand why so many people split minature networks with extra NICs and routers that aren't needed.

I apologize for posting this (as it seems there are a lot of posts about this issue), it's just that I couldn't find an explanation that fit into what I was doing. Is wanderer saying that I should use a LAN port on the first router to plug into a LAN port on the second router (aside from the WAN port of the second router)? I Have already turned off DHCP in the second router. This answers all the questions I've had except for the one about the computers seeing each other. Sjd9910 "Gimme gimme!!!" -Bill Gates