Hey Tek-
Recently, I bought a Steam Link for my living room. I was getting kind of tired of overheating while trying to game in my room. I connected it to my router downstairs and BOOM- I thought it was good to go.
Nope.
In my house, because of it's age and construction style, it isn't very well wired electrically or set up for Wi-Fi. So, I installed a second router in my room to combat this. It is connected by 100ft CAT-6 cable to my router downstairs.
This is where my problem lays- my Steam Link recognizes my PC when connected directly, but it won't recognize it when I have my PC connected to my second router.
What would be the best way to get around this problem? Network Card, port forwarding?
Thanks for the help!
Is the second router connected to the network via its wan port? If so you need to log in to the router, disable dhcp, change the lan ip address so that it's in the same subnet as your other router and then connect it to your network using one of the lan ports.
Steam relies on broadcast traffic to connect which means that both devices need to be on the same layer 2 network, if you're routing between the two networks (using the wan port instead of lan) they can't see each other.
How are they connected together? If you have the internet port of the second router plugged into the numbered internal ports of the other than that's your issue.
Look to see if you can put DDWRT on the second router. It will make what you're trying to do easier.
Yes, I have it connected to the WAN port.
And change LAN IP to match subnet of router 1?
I'll give it a try, see If I can get everything connected
Make sure you change the ip before plugging it in to the lan port otherwise you won't be able to log back in.
So disable dhcp, change the lan ip to something in your other sub net (if your other router is 10.0.0.1 then set this one to 10.0.0.2 or something like that). After you change the ip it won't let you log in (because you're on a different subent) that's okay, unplug the cable from wan and plug it on to a lan port, after which you may need to reconnect your computer so that it gets a new ip, then it should work fine.
You could also try using Ethernet power adaptors to move the signal where the Link is. IF the power network is good enough it might give you the signal streangth you need.