Can one wireless router connect to another for internet viewing ?

[mike63uk]

Hi all - perhaps I need to outline the oddities with my setup in order to get to the question:

- I have one old router (dunno the make, it was cheap) which used to work fine, but a while ago it refused to save ANY settings, so remains at default settings, which work but offer no security at all

- I have a Linksys 54G router as replacement, which is now my active router and nicely secure, thank you.

Connecting to it, I have a Dell desktop PC, and a (work) Dell laptop. I also have a Dell Axim PDA.

.... and here's where the problem is. I have tried everything I can possibly think of, but I can't get the Axim PDA to connect to the Linksys router.
When I first got the router, I put it into G-only connections, then remembered about the PDA and put it back to Mixed access. No luck.
I've tried every config change I can think of on both router and PDA. No luck

I resurrected my old router, plugged it cabled into the Linksys ( I guess as a client), and the PDA connects to it straight away... yippee..... except it can't actually do anything - does not connect to the internet

I have replicated this on both PCs as well - connecting to basic unsecured router OK, cannot see the internet.

I've looked for any setting I can see on the Linksys, and can't see what could be preventing a connection through... so any ideas ?


btw - I realised that the old router would always be fixed at 192.168.1.1 because it's not saving any changes, so I changed the Linksys to be 192.168.1.50, and checked that this functioned OK as it was before connecting up the old router


thanks very much
Mike

[bobbyzero]

If both routers support WDS then you can bridge the internet connection wirelessly. That's what I use between my PC and the XBox in the other room.

It can take a bit of fiddling with IP addresses and DNS settings though.

[ring.of.steel]

If not, just get hold of a cheap wireless bridge.