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[wing_man]

I have a DGL-4500 as my only router on a cable modem.  The wireless is too weak in the far end of the house.  I have a D Link DIR615 router that I'd like to use as a Wireless access point.  I have a LAN wire that goes back there so I thought I would reconfigure the 615 and connect it that way.  I disabled the DHCP and UPnP and set the IP address on the 615 to one outside the DHCP range of the 4500.  I connected them LAN port to LAN port.  The 615 and the 4500 can't see each other.  I then tried changing the 615's firmware to dd-WRT and following their setting changes and got the same result.  The 2 boxes can't see or ping each other. 

Any ideas?  Need any more info to help???

thanks all

[FurryNutz]

Follow this:
Turning a router into an AP.
It should work well for you. Does for me.

[wing_man]

Ok I rest the router followed the instructions and it works!  I wish I could say exactly what change made the difference but I can't.   

No matter you helped it works I'm very HAPPY! 

[FurryNutz]

Enjoy.

[wildhare]

Dumb question, I have followed the same instructions but my indicator panel on the 4500 says "OffLine".  My coverage seems improved.  Should the indicator read "online"?
Thanks!

[FurryNutz]

Is the 4500 running as your main host router or in AP mode? If in AP mode it will probably read offline.

[wildhare]

Furry, yes, it's the AP.  Our ATT UVerse isn't so flexible, so the ATT is the host router.  Thanks for the confirmation!

[FurryNutz]

OK, making sure. Ya, if running in AP mode, some of the status messages will not work as they are dependent on the router working as a main host router.

Enjoy.