Jimi

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"I don't care if they're black, white, purple or green. Awww hold on now. Purple or green? You gotta draw the line somewhere. To hell with purple people. Unless they're suffocating. Then help them."


January 2009, the end of an error.

Ryan

be careful putting two routers on the same network. It can be done, but be wary of this:

Your parents router is the one connected to the actual internet. I'll assume its a name brand router using normal config. It's probably got an internal ip address of 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.1 (depending on brand). The router you get for yourself you'll want to put on a different subnet (that means if your parents is 192.168.0.1, you want 192.168.1.1 or vice versa).

On your router, you'll need to plug it in such that one of the numbered ports of your parents router (they usually have 1, 2, 3 and 4) has cat 5 going from it to the "WAN" or internet port on your router. Then in your router config, use a "static" WAN or internet address. You'll need to pick a valid IP on your parents network to assign to it. If your parents network is 192.168.0.___, then DHCP starts giving out addresses starting at .100 usually, but sometimes starts at .2. The safe bet is to assign your router an address of .254.

Then, give your router a LAN IP address on the opposite subnet (again, if your parents are 192.168.0.___ then your router's LAN ip needs to be 192.168.1.1). This way, the routers don't fight each other for control of each network.

Bottom line:

If your parents router has an IP of 192.168.0.1,
Your routers WAN IP: 192.168.0.254, subnet 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.0.1
Your routers LAN IP: 192.168.1.1, subnet 255.255.255.0

If your parents router has an IP of 192.168.1.1,
Your routers WAN IP: 192.168.1.254, subnet 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.1.1
Your routers LAN IP: 192.168.0.1, subnet 255.255.255.0

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