How do I use two routers in the same network?

[SAS88]

The scenario is: I have a PC running Windows 7 which is wirelessly connected to my Netgear modem-router. I wish to install a security camera outside my house, instead of running a long ethernet cable all the way back into my house from the camera to the Netgear, is it possible that I can connect the camera to another router outside, and then get that second router to communicate with my Netgear inside the house, and thus be able to control my security camera from inside?

Now I know the security camera can be connected to a router, and I can install software to remotely control it, but I'm not sure how I can go about using my Netgear to communicate to a second router. I haven't purchased the second router or the camera yet, but I want to know if it's possible before I do.

 

[Zepher]

Give this a read,
Wireless Bridge - DD-WRT Wiki

 

[SAS88]

Thanks, but I realized I was being thick, can just use the wireless features in the camera instead of doing a direct connection, doh -.-

In either case, wireless bridging is not possible with most Netgear routers.

 

[logicearth]

Also...I think you were thinking more of a switch and not a router. It just happens most consumer routers are a combination of a router and a switch in one box. A switch would have been less expensive then getting a second router. Furthermore a second router would have made a second network.

 

[Zepher]

Also...I think you were thinking more of a switch and not a router. It just happens most consumer routers are a combination of a router and a switch in one box. A switch would have been less expensive then getting a second router. Furthermore a second router would have made a second network.

No, he wanted a wireless router to transmit wirelessly from one location to another, making a wireless bridge between 2 locations.
A switch wouldn't do anything for him in this situation.

explain to me how you would use a switch to achieve the result the Op is after.

 

[logicearth]

...stuff..

You obviously misread my response. I was not giving a solution. Please go back and read.

 

[Zepher]

...stuff..

You obviously misread my response. I was not giving a solution. Please go back and read.

If you weren't giving a solution, then why even mention a switch when he obviously wanted to bridge 2 wireless locations.

And using 2 routers doesn't mean you will have 2 different networks, you can have 1 or 2 or more networks using 2 or more routers. The other routers would have DHCP turned off to keep all devices connected to it on the same network as the first router.

 

[logicearth]

If you weren't giving a solution, then why even mention a switch..

Because I wanted do. What is your problem? Do you not like other people posting responses on a public forum? Is their some unspoken rule about not posting supplementary data to a relative thread?

 

[Brink]

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Let's keep this friendly shall we. :sarc:

 

[logicearth]

For the record, there is such a thing called a Wireless LAN Switch. Which functions smiler to a wired Switch but broadcast both wired and wireless.

 

[Zepher]

For the record, there is such a thing called a Wireless LAN Switch. Which functions smiler to a wired Switch but broadcast both wired and wireless.

Which is basically a router with DHCP turned off.

 

[logicearth]

Which is basically a router with DHCP turned off.

No, a Wireless switch is not the same thing as a router with DHCP off.

If you go and buy a wireless router, you are buying three things. A router, a switch, a wireless hub. They just happen to all be in the same package. You see all those ports on the back of the router? Usually about five? That is the switch portion. Normally next to the outbound line port. The router portion, takes the external and translate traffic from the internal network that is connected to the switch inside the same box, vise verse. The same with the wireless access point.

A consumer router contains all three in a single package, for the sake of simpler operations for "consumers". In turn more expensive then getting something that is not a hybrid of different devices.

 

[2xg]

Hello,

You might want to look on some other options as well like wireless extenders/repeaters or high gain wireless devices.