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[churin]

I changed the router IP of 192.168.1.1 to 192.168.1.2, and disabled the DHCP.  But I cannot access the DIR655 at the above new address by a browser. Note that the existing router's IP is 192.168.1.1 which the DIR655 is going to be cascaded with.
Could anyone help?

[FurryNutz]

Connect all LAN cables to the LAN ports in back, don't use the WAN port.

[churin]

I am aware that WAN port should not be used.  My present problem is that after changing the setting, I can not access the DIR655 at the new address of 192.168.1.2.  Another word, I have not gotten to cascading DIR655 with the existing router.

[FurryNutz]

Ensure that 1.2 is not being already used.
Setup Reserved (static) IP address on the main router for your devices?

[churin]

Please note that the DIR655 is not yet connected to the main router.  Before doing so I just want to make sure that the DIR655 is accessible at 192.168.1.2.  A static IP of 192.168.1.154 is assigned to the PC I am using to do the above test.

Is it realy necessary to reserve 192.168.1.2 on the main router?. 

[FurryNutz]

Should be able to access the 655 with the new ip address. it's preferred to use reserved IP addressing.

[Alezis]

I've been able to link two dir-655 together with absolutely no problem and issue. I'm still using 1.21 firmware but I doubt this will have nothing to do with your difficulties.

My main router is set to 192.168.0.1 with a DHCP range of 192.168.0.101-149.

Here is what I did in my second dir-655 :

1) Reset the 2nd 655 to factory default (no advenced features like port fowarding, routing, ect)

2) Then under "setup" and "network setting" of the 2nd 655, I have set a static ip adress of 192.168.0.2 along with the same subnet mask adress of the main router 255.255.255.0.

3) I have deactivated the DHCP server in the 2nd 655.

4) Save settings and then once all is done, I've connected one of the main router lan port to the lan port 1 (any port will work) of the 2nd dir-655.

5) I am able to acces the main router at 192.168.0.1 and the second one at 192.168.0.2.

6) I have set wireless settings exactly the same except the main 655 is fixed to channel 1 and the 2nd 655 is set to chan 11 (which won't overlap if you are using 40MHz bandwidth). I have disable auto scan feature on both routers. I gave both router the same SSID and exact same encryption.

Result : everything work great. Laptop and mobile phones roaming work great (windows 7 and android 2.2)

I've done a test by accessing directly the 2nd 655 directly when I connect my laptop direcly to it by wire. I just set the laptop ip to a fixed adress (192.168.0.25 with subnet 255.255.255.0 and did not put nothing in DNS) and I can access the 2nd 655 right away by typing 192.168.0.2.

I don't see what you are doing wrong since I looks pretty much the same way I did my setup here...