Westell 9100EM and Linsys WRT54G together

In my house, the Westell 9100EM router is in the Far Northeast corner of the home where my (rather old) home computer is located... Our bedrooms are located on the exact opposite corner of the home, in the SW area. Wireless service is quite poor in that area.
I have an existing Linksys WRT-54G router that worked very well when I had SBC DSL at an older house in another area. What I'm thinking is to put the WRT-54G in the middle of the house or in the back bedroom to provide wireless to that corner.
I see a lot of information on the boards and so forth about the Actiontec router and doing this but very little on the 9100EM router. Can anyone point me in a direction that gives more thorough directions for this? Has someone made this work?
Thanks in Advance for the help!
CJ
Lewisville, Texas

CJRadioman wrote:
In my house, the Westell 9100EM router is in the Far Northeast corner of the home where my (rather old) home computer is located... Our bedrooms are located on the exact opposite corner of the home, in the SW area. Wireless service is quite poor in that area.
I have an existing Linksys WRT-54G router that worked very well when I had SBC DSL at an older house in another area. What I'm thinking is to put the WRT-54G in the middle of the house or in the back bedroom to provide wireless to that corner.
I see a lot of information on the boards and so forth about the Actiontec router and doing this but very little on the 9100EM router. Can anyone point me in a direction that gives more thorough directions for this? Has someone made this work?
Thanks in Advance for the help!
CJ
Lewisville, Texas
Only if you have an ethernet port where you want to put it. If you do connect to it locally hard wired and change the subnet to 192.168.2 and set the wanport to a fixed address on the 192.168.1 subnet e.g. 192.168.1.254 Then connect the wan port of the linksys to a lan port of the 9100em via the in house wiring. the linksys by default cannot connect by wirelss to the 9100em.
If you have no inhouse wiring and are somewhat technically savvy and your wrt54g is a newer rev you can hack the firmware to change it to a wireless forwarder - see tomato. Google it on the net. Be warned that if you mess it up you have a very light boat anchor.

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ajhartman wrote:
I got a new router (ASUS RT-A68U) and want to replace the Westell 9100EM that came installed w/ my FiOS package.
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Slow connection with westell 9100Em router...

i decided to make my own thread and mayb a tech support will see it and solve my problems or anybody that know why this happens and can help me with this.
1. my first problem is my speed, i never get what i paid for which is 20/5 and i know u wont always get your max speed but atleast close to it. the only time i get close to that speed is when i reset or reboot my router which is a hassel to do everytime i get on internet or when i call tech support to reset my ONT which is also a hassel to do everytime i get on the internet.
they tried to resolve it by saying its the router but i just got a replacement router yesterday, which is also a westell 9100EM router and still the same problem. if its not consistent with the speed, i will call tech support again but so far its not, its down to 5/1 and even 2/0.8.
2.my ping is really high, 500ms average and the max today was around 900ms and that i know its really bad when i know its suppose to be less than 100ms or even less than 50ms. so with this high ping, i cant play online on my 360 b/c the connection to each player is really bad with that high ping. my bullets for call of duty 4 modern combat is really laggy, so bad it lags for about a second or two which makes u a dead duck when you are out in the open.
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