JasonC Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 Its been such a PITA! I reset both routers with the button on the back. I could not connect to either of them through the ethernet cable on my laptop, (running windows 7). Had to connect to a vista pc to do it. I give up with this, but one question, could the old dg834 be causing problems with using the new dgnd3300? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Detection Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Its been such a PITA! I reset both routers with the button on the back. I could not connect to either of them through the ethernet cable on my laptop, (running windows 7). Had to connect to a vista pc to do it. I give up with this, but one question, could the old dg834 be causing problems with using the new dgnd3300? Does the problem reverse itself if you swap the position and job of the two routers, so you are now using Router 2 as Main net connection and DHCP server, and Router 1 being at the other end of the house acting as the AP ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+BudMan MVC Posted June 30, 2012 MVC Share Posted June 30, 2012 "I could not connect to either of them through the ethernet cable on my laptop, (running windows 7). Had to connect to a vista pc to do it." That tells me there is something wrong on your win7 box, or you just don't have a clue to what your doing in the first place. If you reset the routers to factory default then their dhcp servers would of been running by default. So unless your win7 box was static, what your saying makes no sense at all. You could connect ANY dhcp device to them and get an IP from their dhcp server. Be it windows 3.11, 9x, nt, 2k, xp, linux, bsd, osx, etc. etc.. dhcp is dhcp is dhcp. So either your windows 7 box was not setup for dhcp. Or you had a software firewall blocking dhcp on the win7 box? From your issues with even getting a box to connect to them with a wire, I would say there is something really wrong with that box and that might be your problem. Do you have your issues with wireless connectivity with this vista box you used or only that win7 laptop? BTW you need to change your thread title - this has nothing to do with double routers. This is a router and Accesspoint - your title points to double natting or multiple routers on same network in routing mode, etc. Your 2nd router in your case is no longer a router but just a AP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted July 1, 2012 Author Share Posted July 1, 2012 The problem I had was, after resetting the routers, I'd plug it into my laptop, (running windows 7) and then the icon would have the busy animation on it, then the exclamation mark, then it would keep going in circles, I tried connecting to the routers by using the 192.168.0.1, but always got "this page could not be displayed". I eventually got it working, the first router that is. I gave up in the end, but i'll have a play later. Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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