Can you connect 4 port wireless routers together to add more computers
to your network and if so how?? If. not, are there wireless 8 or 16
port routers available.

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Request for Question Clarification by mathtalk-ga on 20 Jul 2003 18:16 PDT

Hi, richpeine-ga:

Is it critical that both routers be wireless?

A wireless router with 4 ports can handle dozens of wireless
connections in addition to the 4 "hardwired" Ethernet connections.

I have ("upstairs") a Linksys wireless router with 4 ports, connected
via its uplink port to a ("downstairs") non-wireless Linksys 4 port
router.

I can point out the difficulties in connecting two wireless routers,
if you wish, and suggest workarounds for these.  But I'd like to hear
more from you about why you need both routers to be wireless.

regards, mathtalk-ga

I'm a little confused by this question.  When you refer to a 4 port
wireless router, usually this is a wireless router with a 4 port hub
for wired connections.  Typically a wireless router can support 30-75
nodes of wireless computers.  If you want to add more WIRED
connections to a wireless router with a 4 port wired hub, you can buy
a regular network hub and link them together.  Network hubs come in a
lot of flavors and can be chained together.  The router itself can
probably support a lot more than 4 connections, and another router
would not be necessary unless you go over the physical connection
limit.

If you really meant wireless connections, as I said usually the
wireless routers will support a lot more than 4 of these.  The 30-75
node limit I mentioned is mostly due to the amount of traffic on the
frequency and you may not necessarily be able to improve this.  In
this situation you may in fact need a wireless router added that
operates on another frequency.

You would be better off connecting an 8 or 16 port switch to one of
the 4 ports on your four port wireless router. 8 port switches can be
had for around $30 from a variety of places. Last one I got was a
gigafast 8 port switch off newegg.com. There's no reason all the ports
have to be on the router.