Hi,

Recently attended a customer who had (mistakenly) cabled their laptop to 
their wireless router which had then connected to the next door neighbours 
wireless router and provided a good connection to the neighbours broadband 
service. I showed them the error of their ways! but it proves that 
piggy-backing routers is possible without significant loss of connection 
quality.

Michael Price
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dean Kukral" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 16, 2007 6:15 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] piggybacking routers in a home network for added security


> My current home network has a Wildblue satellite internet service 
> connected
> to a Linksys Broadband Firewall Router.  There are ethernet connections 
> from
> it to our two computers (XP and XP Pro) and two dvr's.
>
> I recently bought an HP dv9260 notebook with an internal wireless G, 
> running
> Vista Ultimate.  I want to connect this to my network wirelessly, so I
> purchased a Linksys Wireless - N broadband router.  I also bought a USB 
> card
> (G) to connect to the dvr and will get another card if the first one will
> work, thereby eliminating two long cables in the basement.
>
> I expect this all to work without problem.  :)
>
> 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
>
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