Good day Troops,

I have a two level house and generally have not great conevctivty through the house.

 

I bnought 4 new Archer C80 wirless routers and I want to interconjnect them

 

The main router connects to the Cable Modem for WAN Access and I have the Lan set up as 192.168.123.1, 255.255.255.0,192.168.123.1

This Router has DNS set to 1.1.1.1 and 1.0.0.1, the DHCP is set to hand out IP's  from 192.168.123.100 to 192.168.123.200 with renews at 1440

I have the ssid for 2.4 Ghz set to darcy24 and the 5 Ghz is set to darcy5  - I Know I can set SSID the same, But I prefer to set them appart as some devices I want on the 2.4 and some I want on the 5

 

I have a hard connection to a lan port on the second router from a lan port on the first router

I left the wan port open and did not configure wan.  I set lan to 192.168.123.2, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.123.1

DHCP is off as It should grab it from the first router

I have wirless set up same as router 1 (same ssid's)

 

I have a hard connection to a lan port on the third router from a lan port on the second router

I left the wan port open and did not configure wan.  I set lan to 192.168.123.3, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.123.1

DHCP is off as It should grab it from the first router

I have wirless set up same as router 1 (same ssid's)

 

I have a hard connection to a lan port on the fourth router from a lan port on the third router

I left the wan port open and did not configure wan.  I set lan to 192.168.123.4, 255.255.255.0, 192.168.123.1

DHCP is off as It should grab it from the first router

I have wirless set up same as router 1 (same ssid's)

 

You may be asking why I used routers intestad of wirless extenders - That is becasue I also need physical ports at these points for devices that are not wireless.

 

Does this look right?

 

Should I (can I) set routers 2,3 and 4 to AP mode and go from Router 1 Lan to Router 2 WAN, Router 2 lan to router 3 WAN, router 3 lan to Router 4 WAN and still have all units get DHCP from Router 1?

 

 

So I kind of have the main router connected to Wan, then the other three set up as wirless extentions and lan switches using router 1 for DHCP leases.

 

 

Thanx for your advise.

 

darcy