Router Design

I have a wireless at&t router a 2wire one. I don't have the dsl service with at&t now.?

Currently i'm using time warner cable internet, they supply me with a the modem and i have a dlink wireless router connected to the modem that time warner cable gave me. Instead of using the dlink can i use the wireless router that i used to use when i had a contract with at&t? or is thei 2wire wireless router is only design to work when you have a contract of dsl with at&t. The reason why i want to do this is because the 2wire is better in my opinion than the old dlink wireless router that im using.

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1. I think you are correct that the 2wire is a better router, problem is, it was built as a DSL modem/router. No DSL, no router. There are a few of them that can be changed to standard ethernet routers in the setup pages but not many. You can check your model at http://support.2wire.com but most were built for DSL only.

You can hook it up as an access point however. Connect it up to your computer (no internet) configure the 2wire to NOT act as a DHCP server and set it to a static address for the WAN using an address from the DLINK's range. (Usually that range will be 192.168.0.x) You can setup the 2wire to say 192.168.0.10 with a 255.255.255.0 subnet and use 192.168.0.1 (or whatever the dlink address may be!)

Then connect any of its LAN ports to your dlink routers lan ports. Poof you have a good solid access point, the dlink still acts as the router.