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Is it possible to connect two wireless routers together?

I have a situation I need resolved. I live in the basement of a house, and there is a wireless router on the main floor where I connect to the internet. I pay the guy upstairs my share of the bill. His router has a very basic setup. No encryption whatsoever, and the SSID is linksys. It is connected to a cable modem for internet service. I have a router in the basement (we both have the same one, a Linksys WRT54G) and wanted to know if I can make my OWN wireless network, and not have to use his by connecting my wireless router to HIS wireless router. The only reason I need to connect to his wireless router is so I can have the internet. So will my idea work? Can I, without any wires, connect MY wireless router in the basement, to HIS wireless router upstairs, and the connect my two laptops to my router and still have internet access? Is it possible to do this without touching the router upstairs? I know DHCP is enabled upstairs. Or am I out of luck, and I have to buy a wireless bridge?

Public Comments

1. no an access point can't be an access point and repeater at the same time, so it will be 2 different networks
2. I'm pretty sure that you would have to buy a wireless bridge. Then you could set the router's public IP address to the 192.168.1.whatever your laptop was when you connected to his router via DHCP. Then set the private or your side of the router to something like 192.168.0.1. Hope that helped. If you have any other questions about it, let me know.