[boorishid]

Ok so i have a wifi network in my house. The number of computers in one room is growing all the time. I dont mind having all these computer run on a cabled network.

Ok anyways i have this thing called a d link game adapter. Basically is a lil box with an antenna which recives the wifi and you plug it into a computer/xbox whatever via a cat5 cable. Now im assuming its basically a bridge ( this is the device). So everything ive read about bridges says there a transparent devices and all you need to do is plug them into a switch. Figured this out after plugging it into the wan port of a router trying to get that to work for a few hours.

Anyways when i plug this thing into the switch and then plug a computer into this switch everything work properly, but when i plug a second computer into the switch the first computer stays connected just fine but computer 2 doesnt act like its pluged into a network at all. Anyways im assuming this may be a dhcp problem? Should i configure all the computers on there own network then plug the bridge into the switch? I dont think that would work though becuase then the wirless bridge wont be on the right network... This problem is really bugging me. Im not understanding why i cant just plug the bridge into the wan port of a router and and run two seperate networks.

My last resort is to plug it into a cheap linux box and just try to configure ip chains or something. I really dont want to run a whole other computer for routing though, nor do i really wanna buy anymore hardware.

[thehacker010]

Do not use the WAN port, use the LAN port for the bridge. Using the LAN ports only uses the router as a switch.

Also, turn off DHCP server on the second router, let the main wireless router do all of that.

One basic way to think about this is WAN ports are always going to something OUTSIDE of your network, i.e your ISP. Since you are trying to add more computers and routers/switches to your INTERNAL network, you want to use LAN ports.