3 routers, 1 network

[ferjero989]

i have 3 routers and a big house...
i manage to make all 3 give me wireless access from any place in the house (BTW those are eusso routers)
2 of them have options/features like WDS, AP, act as router or brigde, port forward etc...
(i dont understand most)
i manage to make them all give me access by setting them as brigde and something about that WDS (i dont even know what i did but it works)
however it seems like it is not one network because i cannot install a shared printer or even see others computers

[Ethereal_Dragon]

What you will want to do is to make sure that all of the wireless routers have the same SSID. You will also want to make sure that only the MAIN GATEWAY router has DHCP enabled. Also you will want to make sure that they all have different IP addresses.

Without having exact model numbers, it is hard to say, but from what I have found, the default IP address for Eusso routers is 192.168.1.254 255.255.255.0. Knowing this, you will want to keep the GATEWAY router at this address, and configure the other 2 to be 192.168.1.253 and 192.168.1.252, both with 255.255.255.0 subnet masks.

In order to see the PC's on the network, you will want to enable filesharing on them. For the printer, each host that will use the printer, will need to have the proper print driver installed. Also, if you are connecting the printer to a PC, and sharing it through a PC, then that host PC MUST be on for the other network hosts to be able to see that computer.

There are a few different ways that the network can be deployed. One way (what I would do), would be to have each of the 2 routers wired to the gateway router, and then have the hosts connect to one of the wireless routers.

Another way (from what I can tell, you are setup in this manor) is to have the gateway router separated from the other routers. Each other router then wirelessly connects to the gateway, and the hosts are then wired to the wireless router.

[peterhuang913]

A better idea is to buy (1) Wireless N router, saves you all the hassle and improved speed and reliability.

[Ethereal_Dragon]

It isn't QUITE that simple, as all of the remote hosts would then have to upgrade to the wireless N adaptors also, and that isn't cost effective when he already has all of the hardware. Sure, the old cards CAN be used, but many of the reviews I have seen show that Wireless N routers don't play well with a LAN of mixed standards (some 802.11b or 802.11g and some 802.11n). Let also not forget that the N standard is still VERY much in its infancy, and was rolled out by the OEM's BEFORE the IEEE drafted the N 1.0 standard.... and ALL of the products were, for lack of a better word, GARBAGE.

[peterhuang913]

omg i forgot you need to get client cards, my bad