ADSL Router + Wireless Router Configuration

Pheww!! I finally got my Internet access at home back to normal...

We have been experiencing intermittent connection problem at home since the week before Raya and the connection finally came to a halt two days before Raya. Calls after calls to the Streamyx support at 100 (for those who are not aware, Telekom has standardized all their service hotline to 100), the technician who attended to our problem identified that our modem is the culprit. It decided to retire after serving us for 2 years plus. I got ourselves a new DLINK DSL-520B ADSL Router and after some setup, managed to connect to the Internet through direct LAN cable connection.

Now come the problem. Our old ADSL modem is just a modem, it doesn't need any setting and can be directly configured by the wireless router (Linksys WRT54G). Now, with the new ADSL router, how can i configure 2 routers to enable us to go online wirelessly?

I finally found a way and i thought i better jot it down here just in case i need to do the same configuration again! Searching through the Internet while i was trying to solve the problem, there was not much comprehensive explanation about how a proper setting can be done. Since i have gone through all the pain, i do hope that this will serve as a guideline for those who might need to do the same configuration in the future. (Note: If you are using the new Linksys Wireless-N Router, WRT310N which i just bought for office use, it is intelligent enough to configure itself through the quick setup)

If you found this useful or you came across other ways of configuring such setup, do drop a note or two so that other readers will benefit.

ADSL Router Setting:
* Set through direct LAN cable connection
1. Set connection type to "PPPoE" and key in your PPP username (i.e abc@streamyx) and password
2. Enable the Bridge PPPoE Frames Between WAN and Local Ports option
3. Enable WAN service option
4. Set the IP to be 192.168.1.1 and Subnet Mask to be 255.255.255.0
5. Enable the DHCP server with a valid entry for start and end IP following the IP you set earlier (i.e Start : 192.168.1.2, End : 192.168.1.1o) and Subnet Mask to be 255.255.255.0

Wireless Router Setting:
* Set through direct LAN cable connection - ensure the LAN cable was plugged into one of the 4 router port instead of the Internet port
1. Set Internet Connection Type to "Automatic Configuration - DHCP"
2. Set IP address to 192.168.2.1 and Subnet Mask to be 255.255.255.0
3. Enable DHCP Server with a valid entry for start and end IP address (i.e 192.168.2.2 - 192.168.2.10). Take note that you can only change the last number of the IP address but the router will automatically change the first 3 number to match your IP address after you save the setting.

With this, we are done! My experience is that you need to wait for a while for the PC to acquire the IP after the setting before you can go online.