Am I missing something

Hello all I am new here in search of an answer as with everyone else here. My question is this, First the problem, my home is using the Netgear DG834 wireless modem router for internet access. On that router we have 2 computers 1 in the front room next to the router and another in our office connected via a really long cat 5 cross over cable, and a HP 6800 wireless printer connected also with cat 5 crossover. Now I have 3 computer in the office, 1 as I have stated is already connected to the router the other 2 are not, as I don't want to go out and buy more 50ft cat 5's I decided to use a router in the office of the 1 cable that is already been run down to the office and, the router I have is a Linksys etherfast cable/dsl router with a 4 port switch model number BEFSR41, it works as far as getting the internet to all the computers in the office but when it comes to setting up a small network so that all the computers in the house can share files and such, only the computers in the office are being recognized and the the 1 out front is not ,but when I remove the router and plug the cable back into the computer directly then the computer out front and the 1 computer in the office is networked and ok, So what do I do? I would like all the computers networked and sharing files and internet. Should I buy a switch or can I resolve the problem with the equipment I already have

 

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Learn to use paragraphs?

OK, enough of me being a wiseguy.

A lot depends on that second router.

First, log into the computer connected to the original router and get your ip address. SHould be something like 192.168.0.X, with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.0

Now, log into the Linksys router and look for a DHCP setting and set it to disabled. Now, see if you can manually set your Linksys router to the same network 192.1768.0.X--set X to equal some number like 99, so you have 192.168.0.99

Now, do not connect the long cat5 cable (and it is not a crossover cable) to the WAN port on the Linksys router. Instead, connect it to a switch port.

The problem I think you may be having is you have two routers on one network--routers pass packets BETWEEN networks--so you only want to use the switching function.

Now, all devices on your network should get an ip address from the original router, and they will be on the same network, instead of two networks

 

Thank you for the English lesson and much thanks for the info and yes I am sorry as it is a cross over as I made it myself. But you have my gratitude and much appreciation

 

Hmmm. You're right. I was being sloppy. Since a crossover cable is for joining two like devices, that is what you would need for joining the two routers. As it were, the routers likely have auto-sensing ports so it won't matter.

Were you able to see if the Linksys can change networks? I had an early linksys router that had a fixed network. Since you are only using the switching function, it may not matter, but it might cause a wrinkle