Networking 3 routers. HELP

I think you'd be better off using only two routers:

Use the Belkin N+ as the primary, and then run a wired connection to the Linksys G, and set it up as per here: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Access_Point

That should do the trick.

Good luck!

 

They are on the same network, but the subnets are different I imagine, and that's the problem.

You are trying to use three devices that do the same thing on a single subnet. Not sure you can assign the ips from 3 devices on the same subnet, but that's what you iphone is trying to do when looking for your macbook. It's looking for devices on the same subnet.

If you can run both off the repeater, then they should find each other. If you can assign the specific IP in Remote for the Macbook, then it won't matter which subnet you are on. This is the same way with Folder sharing. The system looks for other systems that are sharing folders and files on the same subnet for auto discovery, but you can type in the specific IP on a different subnet and get the sharing setup that way as well.

For instance, Router 1 may be giving off DHCP for 192.168.0.2-255, and router 2 has the ip from router 1 as 192.168.0.2, but it gives off ips for dhcp from 192.168.1.2-255. That's the subnet difference that's most likely causing your issue.

192.168.0.xxx and 192.168.1.xxx

You want your WRT-54G to act more as a repeater, not sure that can be done, but check out the link in the previous post.

Hope that helps some....

 

I'm no longer running a DD-WRT box myself, but those instructions should wind up with everything on the same subnet.

The Belkin, for instance, might have a local IP of: 192.168.1.1. The Linksys, then, should be hardcoded to something like: 192.168.1.2 (make sure that address is not in the DHCP pool for the Belkin)

The instructions in the link I provided will have the Linksys pass the DHCP from the Belkin, so the Belkin will actually be the only device assigning IP addresses.

Hope that helps!

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The Linksys should be connected via wire from the WAN port to one of the Ethernet ports on the back of the Belkin.

From there, everything that you have set up sounds correct (DHCP on Linksys disabled, subnet mask set the same). I would make sure to following the following step in the setup instructions: "(Optional)" DHCP Server : DHCP Forwarder (Set your DHCP server's/router's IP address) (this will make sure that the DHCP from the Belkin gets pushed to everything that is being connected to over the Linksys)

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