router help

[gilana]

I just bought a wireless router, so that my boyfriend can play networked games on his Nintendo DS and I can get better quality on streaming Netflix on my iPhone.  I already have a wired router in place for our cable modem in the living room, and I had hoped to daisy chain this one on in my bedroom, since I'm not sure the signal would be strong enough from the living room.  Turns out that you can't just plug it in with the default settings and have that work, though, and I don't know enough about networking to make sense of the solutions I'm finding online.  Anyone out there willing to help walk me through it?  Thanks!

Comments

[kelkyag]

What addresses have you tried? How about 192.168.1.1? (That is, move it to a different subnet -- does the other router also have a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0?

(I'm about to run off, but will come back and poke at this further if it hasn't been sorted out in a couple of hours.)

[gilana]

Hmm... just tried that, and it let me put in the values and save them, then had me reboot the router. But when it came back up I couldn't connect to it at the new IP address.

Tried pinging it, and I got:
PING 192.168.1.1 (192.168.1.1): 56 data bytes
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2
Request timeout for icmp_seq 3


I tried pinging the old router and got:
PING 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1): 56 data bytes
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 0
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 1
ping: sendto: Host is down
Request timeout for icmp_seq 2

Dunno if that's useful info... Thanks som uch for your continued help, I'll keep you posted if I figure anything out in the meantime!

(Oh, and the other router is also a D-Link, and seems to have most of the same presets, so yes to the subnet mask.)