Cadcading two WRT160N

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• WRT160N - URGENT

  Hi guys,.

  I just ordered two WRT160N and I have some doubts. I will use one of the routers connected by cable to my modem and my PC.

  I wanted to use it as a "wireless adapter" for my tank Multimedia Networking (PopCorn Hour A - 110). My question is: can the WRT-160N to work in client mode?

  If you know, please answer as soon as possible so I can later cancel the order.

  Thank you.

  Gotenks

  Hello gotenks, Nope it won't work because the WRT160N device you have does not have capacity to receive the wireless signal, it can send wireless signals. If you want to get your fill of wireless network media, then get a WGA600N! This wireless device will be the adapter wireless for your media tank network and you can receive the signal from your wireless router wireless. I hope this helps...

• Linksys Router WRT160N - Wireless does not connect to the cable modem

  I installed the Linksys WRT160n router to replace an existing G router. When installed the new wireless router works, but the router does not receive a connection (IP address - look under status) of the cable modem (so no internet). When I reconnect the old router and then connect the new router, I get any internet connection through two routers (so the old dishes router the IP address that accepts the new router).

  I have configured the router N new for

  "Automatic configuration - DHCP", no need for connection, IP address dynamic, etc (as required by ISP - Timewarner)

  I tried to renewal and release IP address by the router N when it is connected directly to the main switch (the switch to connect to the cable modem). In so doing, shouldn't that assign a new IP address to the router?

  I am allowed 3 IPs from the cable company (because of the switch) and I use all three with three different internet IP cameras to each address for home security system.

  Any suggestions on why the router is not connecting to the internet? Do I need to reboot physically everything on the network, including the cable modem?

  If I understand your post, you said that your ISP gives you 3 Internet IP addresses and you have 3 cameras that use one of these Internet IP addresses.  If this is correct, then that leaves no IP Internet address for your WRT160N use - so that would explain why your WRT160N cannot get an Internet connection.

  If I misread your post, and you have an Internet IP address available for the WRT160N, you might have a problem with your modem and two WRT160N tries to use the same 192.168.1.x subnet.  To check this, follow these steps:

  (1) Please indicate addresses that use your cameras (IE before you take the test below).  If the addresses do not begin with 192.168, then erase the last half of each address.

  (2) Please indicate your ISP

  (3) Please indicate the make and exact model of your modem (not the WRT160N) number.

  (4) Please do the following test:

  Put your entire network.  Disconnect the switch (including cameras) to the modem.  Using an ethernet cable, connect your modem directly to your computer.  (Do not use the WRT160N for this test).  Turn on the modem and the computer.  Make sure you have an active Internet connection, then go ahead with what follows: (even if your Internet connection does not work, include this and move forward.)

  Go to 'Start' > all programs > Accessories > command prompt.
  A black DOS window will appear. Type "ipconfig/all" (with no quotes), and press the Enter key.   Copy all results in your next post.  To make the copy, highlight the results, and then use the keys copy (Ctrl-c) and paste (Ctrl-v) keys.  If your "IP address" does not begin with 192.168, then for security reasons, delete the latter half of your IP address.

• Extend a home network with two router WRT160N.

  Hey guys,.

  I have a WRT160N and router WRT160N v2. I would like to extend my home network, so that I have more bandwidth throughout different areas in my house.  Should I create one of these routers as Repeater or maybe even a bridge? If so, how would I go all this?

  Thank you!

  -Jay-

  1. If you are referring to wireless bridge, this router is NOT capable of it. You must use separate bridge wireless to connect to Router 2.

  2 cable to fill, but is possible. Here is the Setup of this one;

  3. instead of a 2nd router, use a wireless access point

• A WRT160N V3 can be used as wireless access point.

  I have an AT & T's broadband router.  A WRT160N is connected, so I now have Wireless N capabilities.  I have a second WRT160N I want to put in my living room as a point of access, so I can connect my BluRay player and video stream.  How can I configure the second WRT160N as access point?

  Thank you in advance,

  Andrew

  Topic 1. Yes, you can use your second WRT and put in place as a second access point to your network. First of all, unplug the second WRT to your network and wire a computer in one of its LAN ports. Open the web interface at http://192.168.1.1/ on the main configuration page, change the address LAN IP of 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.2 and disable the DHCP server. Save the settings. Unplug the computer and connect the cable to the first router on one of the second router's LAN ports. Do not use the internet port of the second router! Now you can use the wireless access point in the second router as access point additional for your network.

  For a wireless roaming the two Wrds with identical wireless settings (SSID, wireless security, etc.) and don't forget to enable the SSID broadcast. Only the channel assignments should be different. Different channels spaced at least 5 avoids duplication of canals. Now your laptop can connect to your network via either WRT and internet through the first WRT. It must also be able to move between the two Wrds without losing the connection.

  Re 2. Because the WRT160N has only the ethernet 10/100 ports a CAT5e cable should do. Of course, you can consider getting a better cable, for example a cat6 for future enhancements to your network. It depends on how much effort it is necessary to replace the cable later if you decide to go for gigabit ethernet on your local network.

• WRT160N with firmware not upgrade V2.0.03 no scale - 40 Hz drop-down

  Just received a refurbished WRT160N installed upgrading firmware of subject. I do not have the broad - band of 40 Hz in unrolling Strip Radio announcement.  Is this a firmware problem, a configuration problem or the router does not work properly?

  Laughing out loud. It is ok.. Under the Radio band it has only two option in WRT160N v2... Auto and Standard.

• Bottleneck of Wi - Fi WRT160N

  I have recently known bottlenecks to speed wireless with my WRT160N router.  When my laptop (and my roommates) are wired directly to the router, we can achieve expected download speeds (about 20 MB/s, which is what we pay for).  But what connection via the wireless, in the optimal settings (sitting two feet from the router, no other connected computers) download speeds 1-4 mb/s down.  Router transmission speed used to always register at 54 mb/s (we use all g, so 54 is optimal), but recently, you end up longer than 1 Mbps or 5.5 MB/s.  He rarely recorded higher speeds (yesterday all of a sudden it worked perfectly for about 8 hours, were of transmission speeds up to 54 Mbps Wireless and I was able to achieve download speeds via the wireless about 18 MB/s.)  But it dropped again last night and received no more than 1 or 2 Mbps wireless speed and download speed was blocked at 1 or 2 Mbps).  So it seems that the speed of wireless transmission is the bottleneck - when it increases, my download speed increases.  How can I speed up wireless routers to a consistent 54 mb/s?

  I've updated the firmware, changed channels, beacon interval, frag threshold, rts, security settings, radio band, modes of network threshold and everything that I saw recommended on these forums, but have not found any combination that helped.  Router is v3.0.02.  Any suggestions?

  I had this problem, turned out be a person on the same channel to the top of my jamming signal.

  First, change channels.

  Two, make sure that the speed on the router is set to g and 54 megabits only.

  This will force a connection with your laptop to 54 megs.

  The last thing to try and I amassuming that you have a router 160N V2) return to the version of the firmware 2.0.02 8.

  I tried 3.0.02 version 7 and it was totally unstable.

• With the help of WRT160N with Time Capsule

  Hello!

  I recently put in place the router on my existing network that uses Apple's Time Capsule. I chose the option 'use this with existing router' vs 'replacement of the existing '.

  I have a main tower and laptop. The laptop connects fine to the new network on the WRT160N and find the shared main tower connected to the Time Capsule network. But the Tower cannt see the laptop shared.

  I noticed that the IP address ranges are different bewteen the two networks. The Capsule is 10.0.1.X while the WRT is 192.168.1.X. This has nothing to do with why a computer can not see the other?

  Thank you!

  ~ GST

  The connection that you have enough to make his name as a cascade.

  Follow this link how connect 2 routers to each other.

• I can run router WRT160N wireless switch wireless E900

  Recently the range of my Ipad has declined. So I bought an E900 to suplement my WRT160N (2 areas served by two different wireless).

  My question is can I connect my modem cable in the E900 and have both the wireless on this work and feed the WRT160N via a wired connection so that the WRT160N can also act as a wireless router?

  If so what needs to be done as I tried to connect them without the Linksys E-series installation CD and it did not work (surprise ;-()

  JB

  Sure here ya go.

  http://KB.Linksys.com/Linksys/UKP.aspx?pid=80&login=1&app=search&VW=1&articleid=3733

• WRT160N v2 resets every 30-60 minutes

  Hello!

  I had a problem with my WRT160N v2 router.  All began a few weeks ago, in which he will hang up every thirty to sixty minutes or so, disconnect us from our game online and preventing the webpage loading for a minute or two.   By the looks of the flashing lights, it seems to be reset.  This problem affects our wired computers as well as (I assume) our wireless devices.

  I already updated the firmware to the latest version and did a hard reset of the parameters. This fixes for about a week, but the problem arose again.  Only about half of the router, so I'm rather at a loss of what he done and why.  I scanned the forums here, but apart from problems with earlier versions of the firmware, I don't see anything about this specific problem.

  Any ideas?   Thank you!

  Open the router configuration page and reduce the value of the MTU to 1365 and click on save settings... Cycle power to the router and check.

• Two routers on the same network wireless?

  Last night I bought a WRT160N, to replace my old WRT54G. The 160N is now in my room, connected to a cable modem. The 160N ethernet ports, I have a cable that goes from my room, through my attic and comes out in my living room. In my living room, I'm willing to hang the cable that comes from my 160N to my WRT54G. Then ports ethernet on my WRT54G, I want to connect my Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I have this connected physically this way, but the PS3 does not connect to the internet through this wired connection. (Have not tried the Xbox 360)

  Basically, I'm eager to share the connection from my wall between my PS3 and the Xbox 360 so that they both have wired connections. Also, I would like to know if I can have both routers broadcast wireless on the same channel, so they appear as two wireless networks. Is this possible?

  Looks like you will get almost everything on your wish list.  You can have two wireless routers, and they can both diffuse.  Normally, you would use the same SSID for both routers, but different channels.  Your wireless computer automatically selects the channel harder, so you can "roam" between two routers.  However, this "roaming" is not as good as with cell phones, then you should only "roam" when your wireless connection is idle (i.e. not an active download).

  See my post on this topic for more information on the configuration of your system:

  http://forums.Linksys.com/Linksys/board/message?board.ID=Wireless_Routers&message.ID=108928

• Problem setting up Port Forwarding with two routers.

  I can't set up by Linksys RT31P2 and routers port forwarding WRT160Nv3.

  My setup is Webstar Modem = RT31P2 = WRT160N = Mac OS 10.6.5. (No configurable modem and ISP do not prevent port forwarding. It comes with two Linksys routers).

  I had a Monty Python-going around with the support of Cisco cat; and follow up with telephone assistance in which the agent knew nothing about port forwarding and his supervisor expressed the view that it was not possible with two routers. Sigh.

  If anyone can help me with step by step specific and simple instructions to configure routers. I know that the basic procedures. I'm not clear, what exactly changes on routers.

  I read that portforward.com has to say and it does not work so I must be misunderstanding something.

  The ip address of my computer is 192.168.1.103.  Are the last three digits of this speech concluded the two routers in the area on the port forwarding page? What other changes should be done what router?

  I know the port numbers that I use are OK because I can implement successfully if I connect to one or other of the routers (but not both), and my software of p2p shows port are open.

  Any help and suggestions most welcome.

  If you set up as I have suggested that you have only a single LAN that will be using in your addresses * 192.168.15 case. So in your case:

  1. change the address LAN IP of 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.15.2 WRT.
  2 disable the DHCP server.
  3. connect the LAN of the WRT port to port LAN of the RT.

  That's all. Disable the DHCP server will not affect whatever it is that you're connected LAN - LAN and DHCP server on the RT is still operational.

  After the change, previously the WRT computers may require a reboot to get a new address 192.168.15. *.

  Your computer to which you are transferring must have an IP static and not dynamic (or variable). Check the current IP information on this computer. It must have an IP address like 192.168.15.103, mask 255.255.255.0, gateway 192.168.15.1 subnet and DNS 192.168.15.1 server or maybe two other IP addresses instead. Note DNS servers if you do not 192.168.15.1.

  Then configure a static IP address on the computer. Use something like 192.168.15.10, 255.255.255.0 gateway 192.168.15.1 and the DNS servers you found before.

  After this implement 192.168.15.10 port forwarding.

• Xbox 360 slim connect to the interface on WRT160N wireless - g

  Hello:

  I bought a new Xbox 360 Slim a month ago. Before that, in anticipation of the console to my new wireless capabilities I advanced and changed my old WRT54G (1.1) for a wireless-N router WRT160N allowed.

  When I plugged the console for the first time it was a nightmare to configure wireless settings... It wouldn't connect, in every possible way... And when I finally made a connection that he deleted just after 1 hour (I think it had something to do with the renewal of WPA key, if you must ask) I've updated the firmware and all was good again. BUT! It only connects to wireless-G... I have the router located on 'Mix', so she accepts my notebooks 802.11 G and my 360 Wireless N, but just, it detects the router mode G and connects like that...

  I tried EVERYTHING, but nothing works.

  It connects fine, I even get open NAT on the console and play online with no apparent problems, but I need Wireless N, because the router and 360 are too separate, and the signal is becoming weak. Also I usually stream 1080 p content so I need more bandwidth.

  I tried setting that "only wireless n" router, but then the console just does not connect, says he "can't connect to the wireless hardware.

  I could not test any hardware wireless-N, so I don't really know if it's the fault of the router, the console or is that just, they are not compatible...

  Any tips?

  Can't... My only two options are 'automatic' or 'only 20 Mhz'... :/ I can only change the channel on 20 Mhz. But thanks for the tip.

  EDIT:

  OMG, I can't believe it... It is NOT a malfunction N wireless network... This has to do with security... I had my personal WPA authentication method... According to joint works like a charm and everything connects, but the Xbox connect just the wireless G. Under Wireless-N only, it just does not connect. But I tried to disable security, and he comes to connect n wireless!

  Now, I switched to WPA2 Personal... it connects perfectly on Wireless N even if I set the 'Mixed' router and broadband radio and the way to the car.

  My problem is solved, however, I got to know is always:

  Why he doesn't connect WPA enabled?

• WRT160N V3 wired and wireless speeds are reduced

  I'm runing Windows 7 64 bit on all my machines. I get 50 + MB/s when connected directly to the ethernet jack. I added a WRT160N V3 (refurb) of 3.0.02 firmware and all my gear now peak at 20 MB/s, the two cables to the router wireless and more. Network and internet work well, just weird half my flow is gone. What gives? For wireline areas, this seems unreasonable.

  I tried a few settings setting I found research, including disable Ipv6, but nothing has changed.

  Because you tried to connect directly to the router and continue 20 MB/s speed, you must update the firmware, or if you already have the most recent, re-flash.

• Issue with WRT160N v2 and victory. 7

  First of all all good morning to you all - I'm new here

  OK, here's my problem.

  I have WRT160N v2 at home and his job very well.

  Two desktop (wired) and two laptops (wi - fi) worked very well until I decided to try the new Windows 7.

  Now I have a laptop (Dell Studio 1735 with Windows 7) even not see my wireless network, while the other (Dell Inspiron) work very well - as usual. Also, desktop computers connected by cable have a problem with the router at all.

  I don't have any idea what's going on, but any help would be great.

  Best regards

  Vedran

  Have you ever tried setting level or flashing of the firmware on the router?