Static Routes?

Hey guys,
I'm having some problems with my network. It's set up with 2 routers on it - one wireless, one not. The trouble is each have certain features that I need. Mainly the wireless one, the problem being that I have a cable broadband net connection, and only the wired router is cable, while the wireless is adsl.
The main problem I'm having, is that my network has multiple devices on it, mainly gaming things luike 360s and PSPs, and I need to have ports opened and whatnot to connect online properly, however the router keeps changing the ips each time they connect, making this a nightmare. The wireless one on the other hand has a LAN setup to always assign the same addresses. I've seen the Static Routes option, and admit I'm quite possibly wrong, but if I understand right, I should be able to set up the router to direct to the wireless, and use the wireless as the DHCP server instead. Am I considering this right, or is it a fanciful whim?
I need 3 fields to set this up. Destination, Subnet, and Gateway. I know the subnet to be 255.255.255.0, but am unsure about the destination and gateway (more the gateway - the destination will be the wireless router IP I guess).
Would this work to solve my problem? I know it could screw things up if theres a disconnect, but both routers are always on, and in the same ip range (192.168.1.x), so I think that problem would be solved. What IP would I need for the gateway?
Cheers

 

You are basically correct if I'm understanding your situation correctly. You have a wired router connected to your ISP cable. You have a wireless router that is connected to your wired router and into which your networked devices attach. Currently your wired router is running the DHCP.

You can turn off DHCP in the wired router and turn on DHCP in the wireless router. Provided only the wireless router is plugged into the wired router and no other devices. You would like to set up your DHCP to deliver an IP address, a subnet mask and a gateway address to the machine that is requesting. So, your IP address should be an available one on your network...usually a pool of addresses. The subnet mask is fine as 255.255.255.0. And finally the gateway address is the IP address of the device that will move packets onto another known network. In your case it should be the address of the wireless router.

 

OK. I tried copying that.
I went into the setup and went to enable the Static routing before disabling the DHCP on the cable router.
The cable ip is 192.168.1.1 and the wireless is 192.168.1.254 - I set the destination as x.254, the subnet as normal, and the gateway as x.254, but then I get an error "The specified subnet mask is invalid. (Destination & Mask) != Destination."

What am I doing wrong? I assume its the destination since I couldnt figure that from the post, but I'm still not entirely sure
Thanks again

 

I'm sorry I'm not fully understanding.

What is the setup in the wired router? The IP address, the subnet, the gateway addres and the DNS addresses.

What is the setup in the wireless router? The IP address, the subnet, the gateway addres and the DNS addresses.

What is the setup in the computer?

 

The setups is like this:
Wired Router, IP: 192.168.1.1; Subnet: 255.255.255.0; DNS: Automatic
Wireless Router, IP: 192.168.1.254; Subnet: 255.255.255.0; DNS: Automatic
Computer: Via DHCP, ip changes each time.

The wired is connected to the modem, and the wireless router, and all devices are connected through the wireless. Wired has DHCP server on, wireless is off, so all IP addresses change according to the wired. I'm looking to get them to swap around so that the wireless is DHCP server, and the wired is disabled, which is what I estimate the static route to be, although this may very well be incorrect

 

OK.....you have two routers. What kind of routers are ane they and what model numbers. To talk any further I'll need to talk specifics to the type of routers.

 

The wired is a Mercury Kobian KOB-100
The wireless is a Netgear DG836GT