Are you looking to learn how to connect a router to a wireless router in Cisco Packet Tracer? Welcome! In this blog post, I’ll guide you through the steps to make it happen.
If you’ve attempted this before, you may have encountered some challenges when trying to connect a Cisco router to a wireless router (or WiFi router, as some call it). This is because the process is somewhat different from connecting two standard routers in Packet Tracer.
I personally encountered these challenges while working on a project, and after figuring it out, I decided to share this post to help others like you.
Here’s a video on how to connect a Cisco router to a wireless router:
Network Topology
The network topology we will be making use of in this blog post is shown below. As you can see, it consists of a Cisco router connected to a PC and a wireless router connected to a smartphone.
How to Connect Router to Wireless Router in Cisco Packet Tracer
Here are steps to connect a router to a wireless router in Cisco Packet Tracer:
Step 1: Join the Router to the Wireless router with Crossover cable
The right cable to join a Cisco router to a wireless router is a crossover cable. Many people make the mistake of using straight-through cable to join the router to the wireless router, and this results in an issue after the whole configuration. Make sure you join the router to the wireless router with a crossover cable.
Step 2: Configure the interface of the router
Configure IP address to the interfaces of the router as labelled in the network topology.
Here are the command to achieve this;
Router>enable
Router#configure terminal
Router(config)#interface GigabitEthernet0/0/0
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#exit
Router(config)#interface GigabitEthernet0/0/1
Router(config-if)#ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.0
Router(config-if)#no shutdown
Step 3: Configure the interface of the wireless router
Navigate to the LAN interface of the wireless router and then configure the IP address as shown in the image below.
Then navigate to the “internet interface” and configure the IP address to it as shown below;
Note: The default gateway IP address configured above is the IP address of the interface of the router connecting to the wireless router.
Step 4: Configure the host devices
Configure the IP address to the PC and the smartphone as labeled in the network topology above;
On the PC;
On Smartphone;
Step 5: Test Connectivity
After completing the above configuration, the next step is to test connectivity by pinging from the PC to the smartphone. As shown below, I was able to reach the smartphone from the PC.
You can watch the video below for more clarification;

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