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[xbeakerx]

With my Linksys router i could give a gap between my wired and wireless connections but with the 4500 i can do it sort of. I just can't see the wired connections in setup. I have it setup like this.

all wired connections are 192.168.1.200-299
all wireless connections are 192.168.1.300-above

What can i do and plus i would like to hook up my old router to this one for more Ethernet ports. How can i do that?

[FurryNutz]

I would manually reserve the IP addresses for your devices using the router on the Basic/Networking page.
I would start by adding them one at a time or just turn them all on, they'll be displayed in the Dynamic Clients list at the bottom. Just select the Reserve work link to the right on each row for each device. This will autofill in the Add Reservation section. Here you can give or change the NAME and Change the IP address too, then select Add. After all the wired is done, start adding the wireless.

You can use the other router as an AP or switch if you connect the LAN cable from one LAN port on the back of the 4500 to the back of the other router using his LAN port. Don't connect to the WAN port.

Review the sticky for turning it into an AP in this forum.

Was curious, how many connected devices do you have?

[xbeakerx]

Thank you

I have 5 wired Computers, 2 PS3, One wired port open for LAN Party, then 5 wireless products and its just me and my wife. I'm a computer nut. My whole house is Geeked out.

[kargo27]

Thank you

I have 5 wired Computers, 2 PS3, One wired port open for LAN Party, then 5 wireless products and its just me and my wife. I'm a computer nut. My whole house is Geeked out.

I don't feel so bad, now.  There are 4 of us and we have 22 wired/wireless devices.     Some of these are wifi for our cell phones, wireless adapters/print server, etc.

[FurryNutz]

I would do this, set a subnet mask of 255.255.255.192 this will give you a IP address pool of 192.168.0.1 thru 50.
If you only have 12 devices, theres no need to have the address pool for 100 or more. I have 20 devices and there all set up for reservations and the subnet mask is at .192.

[Kamikazi2142]

how did you manage a subnet of 300? i'm just curious, cuz it won't let me above 255, it pops up a warning about 255, but not 254 or below, i was unaware of the possibility to go higher than 255.  i honestly though that 255 was the very highest a router could go... i have set my router to be 192.168.0.10 - 192.168.0.250, default subnet mask, but when i tried 300 it said invalid.

[fraggboy]

The last octet that can be used is .254 (x.x.x.254).  .255 is reserved for the "multicast" address or Broadcast address.