At 10:15 AM 2/16/2007, you wrote:
>What I am wondering is: if I piggyback my new wireless router on top of the
>old "firewall" router, will that give any added security to my network?  The
>satellite internet, while much faster than dialup, is still only 1.5Mbs,
>which should not be affected by the additional router, I would think.
>TIA,
>Dean Kukral
>

An additional router will give you an additional firewall block / 
protection. To cascade your router you will need to assign it a 
separate IP address.

For example, Linksys by default is
192.168.1.x
255.255.255.0

So to cascade your router, plug in from the LAN port of the new 
router and then into one of the LAN ports of the existing router and 
make it's IP address

192.168.2.x
255.255.255.0

If you want to isolate your wireless router from your LAN, then 
assign the new router a separate IP address and plug the new router 
into a LAN port of the Internet router, but to the WAN port of the 
new router. Then you will have Internet access to the new router but 
the  new router's firewall will keep things separated.

Before you try this, make sure you are using the latest BIOS 
available for your particular router.

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