I have been having a heck of time connecting two routers together. Here is the setup. One laptop, wired/wireless connection. One iPad 2. Zyxel DSL Modem that is also a wired router. NEW Asus RT-N16.

You don't need a router. If you set the subnet mask on all of the PCs to be 255.255.0.0, then they should all be able to ping each other. Basically, opening up the subnet mask puts all of the PCs on ...