Network Help Please.

[MadmaN]

Ok here's the deal... Got a 2 in 1 cable modem/router in my dads room - it's connected to my router up stairs...so my 3 systems in my room have access to the 50mb internet ...The problem I am having is the computers that is connected to my dads router can't access my ftp/http server What do i do?

 

[Skull]

Not quite sure how cable routers work, in the sense of what network services they do, but I can give you some rough stuff to check:

Can any machines access the FTP/HTTP servers? If not (or only the machine it's running on) then it's probably the firewall on that machine.

Since you're running two routers, you should have DHCP disabled on the one that's not connected to the internet (I know with a DSL connection, you have the gateway router doing DHCP unless you can configure the settings fully so that the gateway points to the router providing internet).
If you've had to change that, then you'll need to restart the secondary router (and renew IP addresses on all machines on the network) to get the single DHCP pool working.


If either of those don't do anything, prod me on steam or IRC and I'll see what else I can try for you

 

[Deep Blue]

As Skull says, sounds like you got 2 separate networks going on there. You can use a spare cable router as a hub, but you need to make sure you don't plug anything in where you'd normally plug your cable modem in to as that's definitely on a separate network to the switch ports on the router.

 

[MadmaN]

Thanks guys.. Just disabled the DHCP Server in the 2 other routers and it's all working perfect.

Thanks.