Large House Setup

I live in a large house and I am trying to configure a home network from a cable modem connection. The people that lived here before me left an 8 port hub and a 4 port wired router in the basement that are connected to an ethernet port in each bedroom (We have 9). I have my own linksys WRT54G wireless router that I want to put in my centrally located bedroom (instead of the basement) so the whole house can have wireless internet. When I connected everything, I could not access the internet. What would be the proper setup between the cable modem, hub, wired router, and wireless router? Thank you so much, this has been driving me crazy.
Kenton

Hi…
You network should be Cable Modem -> Wired Router ( Internet / WAN Port) -> HUB -> Bedrooms -> WRT54G ( EthernetPort). First make sure that the wired router is configured and you are able to go online thru the wired router. Then connect the HUB to any one of the Ethernet ports of the wired router, connect all the cables from all the rooms to the HUB. Connect a computer to the Ethernet port of the bedroom and make sure that you are able to access the internet.
Now the important thing is that you need to know what’s the IP address of your wired router. Let’s assume IP address of the wired router to be 192.168.2.1. We need to make sure that the wired router and the linksys wireless router are both in the same network range. To get both the routers in the same network, connect a computer to the Ethernet port of the wireless router. Reset the router using a pointer object for 30 seconds. Unplug the power…wait for 30 seconds and then reconnect the power to the router. When all the lights on the router are steady, open Internet explorer ……in the address bar type http://192.168.1.1 (default IP address). Leave the username field blank and in the password type “admin” ( Default Password). When the configuration page loads up fully…..first make all the wireless setting of the router. Save setting. Goto the setup page…Disable the DHCP server of the router. Also change the Local IP Address of the router to 192.168.2.2 (Assuming wired router to be 192.168.2.1). Save settings. Connect the Ethernet port of the bedroom to the Ethernet port of the wireless router. Powercycle the whole network

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