Cross Router Sharing

[Lonewind]

This is my current network setup

Cable Modem -> Dlink Gamer Lounge Router -> Vonage Wireless Router

main PC is on Dlink Gamer Lounge Router

VAIO media center on the Vonage wireless

how do I setup a network so that I could share a folder in the main pc to the VAIO media center? Currently they only found PC within the router they're connected to.

[Takedown3]

run a cable instead of doing wireless

[Kaisha]

What Takedown said.

You got two VPNs running currently from the sound of things, and last I checked there isn't any easy means of having systems on both sides be able to see each other, so you'll have to settle with a wired cable and make the one router act as a switchbox.

[Blabj]

Linking Routers - DD-WRT Wiki

You'll want Client Bridge or Repeater Bridge, both should work for what you want. But essentially, you'll want both routers on the same subnet mask (default is typically 255.255.255.0) with both routers on the same IP range (default is typically 192.168.1.x (1-255))

I'm unsure if you'll need DD-WRT to access these features (they're not typically accessible on default firmware packages, in order for companys to sell a seperate product which is almost entirely the same router model - just with different firmware and less internal components) However, DD-WRT is very simple and easy to install if you follow the guides on the wiki and website to the T. Ensure you read every step thoroughly and understand what it is asking you to do. If you are at all concerned, feel free to post any questions here or on DD-WRT's forums, I'm sure you'll get good feedback.

[Cephius]

Linking Routers - DD-WRT Wiki

You'll want Client Bridge or Repeater Bridge, both should work for what you want. But essentially, you'll want both routers on the same subnet mask (default is typically 255.255.255.0) with both routers on the same IP range (default is typically 192.168.1.x (1-255))

I'm unsure if you'll need DD-WRT to access these features (they're not typically accessible on default firmware packages, in order for companys to sell a seperate product which is almost entirely the same router model - just with different firmware and less internal components) However, DD-WRT is very simple and easy to install if you follow the guides on the wiki and website to the T. Ensure you read every step thoroughly and understand what it is asking you to do. If you are at all concerned, feel free to post any questions here or on DD-WRT's forums, I'm sure you'll get good feedback.

I've done this with a client bridge. Installing DD-WRT on an old WRT54G is very easy, just follow the directions carefully and you won't have a problem. The web interface on DD-WRT is very easy to use, the whole process start to finish took me about 20 minutes. Once you link your routers in this way, anything you hook up to the second router should be visible on your wireless network.

[Blabj]

Yeah, I should also add this is how my network is configured, and everything works flawlessly. Computers can easily share files between the two routers, and the hit in speed isn't really noticeable (it goes from 11mb/s to maybe 10.5mb/s when moving data between the routers)

Also to add to my "technical" breakdown of things to include, your client bridge (the router connected behind another router) shouldn't have any DNS settings, which means turning off your DNS server and any firewall settings it might have.

This is all covered in the guide anyways, I don't really know why I'm posting it in such a vague way, but still... I guess you could consider these posts cliffnotes. :/

[Cephius]

Yeah. Should also mention that only one router should be handling DHCP, probably the wireless one in the OP's post. When you configure the client bridge, make sure you turn DHCP off.

[Lonewind]

Thank you, I'll have to sort through a lot of the jargon and figure this out. Appreciated.

[bungiefan]

It helps to be trained as a network admin when having a network with more than one router in it. Especially with home routers all using private IP address ranges as their default settings. Two routers without knowing how IP networking and addressing works is asking for conflicts and trouble.