So I was messing around with some of my old stuff that I had laying around
I had a Qwest DSL router (Actiontec GT701-WG) that had wireless. It only has one network port and one DSL phone line port on it. I was a Qwest DSL beta tester when the first rolled it out here, so it's been gather dust along with my really old Cisco 675 router from them
In place already was a linksys 4port switch router without wireless.
I thought hey why not hook up the LAN port of the wireless router to one of my ports on the linksys so I could get wireless going on the cheapskate side
Googled and couldn't find anything. Manuals and Qwest said you couldn't rig it up that way
So here's what I did
My linksys does DHCP
172.16.1.1
255.255.255.0
My current computers don't use DHCP (no reason to with three)
I set the wireless router up as follows under advanced settings
LAN IP 172.16.1.2
255.255.255.0
WAN IP set to Transparent Bridging
Disabled DHCP
Disabled the firewall
Static route 172.16.0.0 255.255.0.0 172.16.1.1
Setup my wireless like normal (WPA, No ESSID broadcasting, MAC Filtering)
Connected the LAN port to my linksys, and away it goes.
So don't belieive all the manuals or the ISPs support people, as the said it would work
Maybe this will help someone else with spare stuff laying around
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