It has no responsibilities around IP addresses. Make sure the wireless settings of the second router is the same as the first router.
Same SSID, same security type, same password. The only difference will be the channel. Moreover, we'll want to make sure the channels are sufficiently far apart. Of course, if you're rich and famous and have a HUGE area to cover, you can add a third wireless access point and just make sure that third AP uses a channel that's sufficiently far away from the other two. Try to make the second router be 5 away from the first router's channel.
The guidance is channels 1, 6 and 11 are a good guideline. I used 11 for the first and 6 for the second. Here's a great chart showing the channel spread from Wikipedia. I used channels 11 and 6 for my two routers. Of course, you'll need an ethernet run going from a LAN port on your first router to a LAN port on your second router. In my case, each room has ethernet in the wall goingn to a gigabit switch. I pluged the second router into the wall from its LAN port and it worked.
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About Scott Scott Hanselman is a former professor, former Chief Architect in finance, now speaker, consultant, father, diabetic, and Microsoft employee. About Newsletter. Hosting By. Share on Twitter or Facebook or use the Permalink. September 13, Scott Hanselman. To hold us over until we got around to wiring our house, I use one downstairs, plugged into a WAP to extend our wireless coverage for the Wii.
These days, I think Netgear and a couple others make them as well. As a bonus, if you are on FiOS, the router Verizon supplied you likely already has one MoCA adapter built-in for the router end of the connection. PK If your router is compatible with DD-WRT, you might wanna check it out, its a much better firmware than most routers have and gives you tons of new options, including setting up a wireless bridge. Basically router 2 should be able to get some decent signal from router one, so it picks up the signal and then re transmit it again.
You should try putting router B between router A and the place you wanna get the wireless. NOTE: router 2 will be working half-duplex so it will have its bandwidth reduce by half, since it cant receive and send at the same time so it will switch very fast between the two operations. I'm sure no one knows the long-term affect of this due to the rapid increase in bluetooth, wireless, and other frequencies Is that your FIOS modem just dangling in the cabinet?
Opener up, Scott! Let's see exactly what you got in there!!! Hi Scott this setup is simply setting up a repeater. Mentioning this bc the title is kind of cumbersome - you could say, "Setting up wireless access points as repeaters". By definition, repeating a wifi signal means a single SSID with multiple access points. Joseph But it's not a repeater setup.
The second router is not repeating the WiFi signal, it gets the connection from a hard wire. I've got the same setup at my house using Apple gear routers that do expect you to do this, making it a bit easier , and it differs greatly from the former repeater that I did have setup.
Google OpenID guy above describes setting up the spare router as a repeater, and the disadvantage of doing so half speed. Scott's setup has the advantage of full speed, and probably better reliability as I never had great luck with any kind of a repeater. If Scott wanted to shorten the title, he could use "roaming", but then it wouldn't be terribly obvious to any but the initiated.
I did the same a few months back and overall it works well. This happens if one moves devices around the house, but naturally is ok if devices are relatively static.
Hi Scott, you shouldn't need to unplug your existing router to configure the new one. If your laptop supports MDX and most do, unless it's really old you can plug directly into the router, configure your settings and once it's complete connect it to the main network.
Powering down your router really should be a last resort type of move. For me, it also handles the television and phone. Something like that definitely gets noticed. Also, what your doing is, I believe, called a wireless distribution system WDS. Joe Chin. Technically speaking your secondary "router" is not a router, but an access point. It will route nothing, it just passes all packets from the Air to the Ethernet and back, regardless of the IP-Addresses or Networks used in them.
It wouldn't even need an own IP-Address, that's only used to configure the device. Hmmm, now I'm wondering if we've hit upon a solution to "jamming" my neighbor's open Wifi so the kids don't jump on his to surf the net at night. If I setup a spare router to have the same SSID as his and the same channel, my "fake" signal would be stronger and the kids would attach to it and not the neighbor's.
I'm sure the kids would initially think the neighbor got a new router or something since the signal would be better. So then I could send the iPod Touch requests to the big bit bucket in the sky, or better yet, let it get to the net and monitor what they do in the middle of the night. Would this work? What I did was setup two Linksys routers using ddwrt custom firmware.
Then I set the Verizon router to pass through from the fiber box directly to my primary Linksys router. The benefit here is, that both Linksys routers are connectible wirelessly AND via wire, with only the primary dealing out IP addresses. It's a pain to setup, and annoying because the fiber box in the basement is tied to Mac Addresses, and kind of shuts off for an hour after a mac address cloning. Get more. Verizon Up.
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Device must remain active for 45 days. See vzw. Turn on suggestions. Auto-suggest helps you quickly narrow down your search results by suggesting possible matches as you type. Showing results for. Search instead for. Did you mean:. How to set up my router to have two SSID's one for 2. All forum topics Previous Topic Next Topic. Posts: 2. Message 1 of 6. Have same question. Accepted Solutions. Gold Contributor VII. Does this sound like something that a cable internet company would prevent? They can't tell it exists yes it did answer.
Inside router 1, x. From inside router 2, the gateway address x. Chose to be sure it didn't conflict with any DHCP assignments starting from up. Last edited: Dec 28, There are other choices, but start here and we'll deal with your needs as we go.
Last edited: Dec 29, Couple follow-up questions: 1 IF we wanted to, could we have chosen any type of number for the 3rd set, so rather than "2" we might have used a "3", I. In fact, could we just make up a number for the whole thing? Does it have to start with for the IP of the 2nd router?
I experimented with reconnecting them to the "hidden" network, but they still did not function. Message "Out of range" was displayed. Is it possible to turn off the radio but still maintain connection with devices that use that WiFi? Seems like a silly feature if by turning off the radio nothing works any longer. Thanks for all the info and help. Jobeard, I was mistaken. Things were not setup the way you told me.
When I incremented the Default Gateway by 1 to When I pinged the system yesterday, it was using the Automatic IP on router 2 for the WAN , and getting the results we were looking for. Last edited: Dec 31, Should I do that? Use whatever pleases you. Hi, I know this chat is kinda old but happen to chance upon this yesterday. I'm looking into separate my IOT devices on Router 1 and other important devices on Router 2 and yet I can connect to the internet from Router 2.
Also, I can still access devices on Router 1 with device on Router 2. Does the above mention work? Can I use subnetting instead? Is it similar to the above setup? My idea of subnetting is set Router 1 to Also, using M. Will those device be able to access internet?
Or do I need to set them on Router 1 instead? Ambious said:. MattS said:. The first scenario would be exactly the same as specified in this post. It depends what you are trying to achieve and what routers you have.
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