Trying to assemble home LAN with 4 routers, need help with subnets!

First let me describe the situation ... first comes a DSL router, then a
router that does my VoIP, then a router that does my firewall and VPN, then
a wireless router. What a pain.

I've gotten pretty good at getting things to basically function, but I don't
know enough to get things to work like I really want.

For example - the wireless router plugs into one of the ports on the
firewall/VPN router. Right now, I've got the firewall/VPN router set to a
subnet of 192.168.2.*, and the wireless router set to a subnet of
192.168.3.*. I used to have the wireless router set to "gateway" mode,
which meant that my laptop (on the wireless router) was able to use a
printer on my main computer (on the firewall/VPN router). However, some of
the multi-player games my son and I like to play didn't function properly in
that mode, so I tried setting the wireless router to "router" mode (it
recommended that anyway) and it didn't help the multi-player games, and now
the laptop can't share the printer.

Do folks have recommendations about where I can go to learn more about how
routers differ from gateways, how to get subnets working properly, what
Windows needs to have file/printer sharing work, what multi-player games
require of their network, that sort of thing?

Thanks!
Chris


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