Connecting Three WIFI Routers With WDS And Sharing The Internet And Network

hello everybody today I'm going to be doing a follow-up video on my connecting Wi-Fi routers together my my first video I connected to Wi-Fi routers together in this video using WDS technology in this video I am going to connect three Wi-Fi routers together using WDS technology again so just let me recap and what I'm gonna do here and what the purpose is number one I'm gonna connect my net gear W and our 2003 yes this is an old router but it's an oldie but a goodie and it works just fly this is gonna be my main router and it's gonna be connected to the internet and my modem it does not have WDS technology and it will work just fine because it is the main router the main router does not have to have the WDS technology at all to work if it does it won't hurt it if it doesn't it won't hurt it either so I'm just showing that as an example on this so that'll be the primary the secondary is gonna be a WR 841 n tp-link which does have a WDS technology in it and you can get one of these for under 25 bucks on Amazon or Ebay I'll put links for that in the video description below if you don't have one but it has the technology the WDS technology in it and it works great so this is a tp-link WRA 41 that'll be my secondary router my tertiary router or a third router is going to be another tp-link router this is a WR 940 in and it's a slightly faster slightly more advanced router but it has the WDS technology in it as well and again I'll put the link for it in the video description below and it's under $30 again on Amazon or Ebay again in the description below if you want to get that you do need two routers that have WDS technology they don't have to be these two they can be any two routers that have WDS technology they should work just fine regardless so who made them as long as the WDS technology is inside them so in this case it's applying to well this video applies to the hardware I'm showing but if you have a technology in your hardware and it's not the same just follow the instructions and you should be able to get this done so next I'm going to show you what we're going to accomplish in this video and then I'm going to go through the steps on how to do it here's the configuration that I'm proposing on this video I've got a primary router the wnr 2000 version 3 Netgear connected through the internet using a modem it's got Wi-Fi on it and it's enabled and working and it is the DHCP function on it is on by default both those things are on when you take this router out of the box most routers that are Wi-Fi will have both of those features turned on I will show you in this video where to check to see if that is on on your router also it's connected to the internet using a modem so I'm assuming that yours is connected likewise or at least is connected to to the Internet in some way now the secondary router is a Wi-Fi router as well the WRA 41 and tp-link and it will connect to the primary using Wi-Fi so it has to be within range of it so it has to be able to see the primary router and once it connects using WDS technology to connect to the primary it will be able to share out the Internet to clients as well it'll be able to share out all network resources to anything connected to it whether it's through Wi-Fi or through a hard wired connection now I mentioned WDS technology the primary does not need to have that technology only the secondary and the tertiary or the third router need to have that technology the third router again can be anywhere I'm proposing the garage on this one living room on the first one and it has to be within Wi-Fi range again of the primary router so it needs to be able to see the Wi-Fi signal broadcast from this router in order to connect to it once it connects using WDS it will share out the internet to any clients connected to it whether they're hardwired or Wi-Fi now a nice thing about this is all three of these routers will be part of this saying Network so anything connected to the primary like say a network printer will be able to be seen on the secondary and the tertiary sorry the secondary and the tertiary regardless of where you're connected so it's everything on this network is shared amongst everything on this network so again if you're sharing a printer on this router this router and this router will be able to see it as well they'll all be part of the same network next I'm going to show you how to connect all this together what is going to be required as far as configuration goes here's the information we're going to need to gather in order to have this happen the number one and most important piece of information is the IP address for your main router you know I will show you how to do get this information regardless of the router that you have you know so I'm just showing you what you need here like I said the primary can be any Wi-Fi router it does not require WDS technology and DHCP needs to be on and that's usually on by default so don't stress too much about that what we need to find out is what the IP address is of the primary in my case is 192.168.1.1 in your case they may be this as well or it may be something else like 192.168.0.1 which is the most the most common other than 1.1 that it can be so in this video picture what I'm showing is if you have a IP address on the primary that is not 192.168.1.1 its 0.1 then I'm showing you how to change that but in this case if it's 1.1 then your secondary it's going to have to be 192.168.1.2 your third router is going to be 192.168.1.3 again as you see here if the primary is not that if it's 192.168.0.1 I lay it out here you can see I say X is zero and you can see that basically whatever you have in the primaries X octet or this number goes into the secondary into the third so if you had zero here where the X is then zero goes here and zero goes here so you'd have 192.168.0.1 when I two dot one six eight dot zero dot two and 192.168.0.0 but I'm not going to go through both of those configurations I'm assuming that you will follow the example I show here and change it accordingly if it needs to be otherwise these are the three IP addresses we're going to be dealing with so next I'm going to show you how to physically know how to connect to the primary router to get your primary IP address which is the 192.168 number that you see here so let's go find the IP address for the router I'll show you how to do that quickly let's go to your Start button here or your windows button then we're going to go to gear which is settings and under here we're going to go to network and internet scroll down to network and sharing center here we're going to go to change adapter settings and you'll note that I have three connections here and you can tell from the red X's that I'm not connected to Ethernet or bluetooth I'm connected to Wi-Fi because you see the little green bars that tells you I'm connected to it now you may be connected through Ethernet so I'm gonna connect my Ethernet here so you guys can see what that's like there we go and I'm going to disconnect the Wi-Fi down here there and now you can see that I have a red X on the Wi-Fi that's how you know you're not connected to Wi-Fi and I have no X on the Ethernet okay so whatever it doesn't have a red X on it that's what you're connected to okay and you should be able to browse an Internet the Internet when you're currently before you come and get this setting so make sure you can browse the Internet and then once you you've done that and you can browse the Internet you know you're connected to your main router here what you're gonna do on either one of these connections depending on which one is not read xed you're going to right-click it and choose status now if you right-click the wireless connection and that's what you get that you're connected to it will give you the same information so here we're going to go to details and then we're going to go to ipv4 default gateway and here you see a number that number is your IP address for your router that's 192.168.1.1 on my case so I'm gonna open up a notepad here so notepad and note that down write that down so it's important 192.168.1.1 and you may want to print this or save it keep it for future reference so you don't have to go looking for this so that that's what we have there and you can see here I'm gonna close this off and disconnect my my Ethernet now I'm not connected to anything everything has a red X to it turn on the Wi-Fi connect to my main router there we go and you can see that instantly changed over here then we're gonna go right click it choose status same procedure as it is on the Ethernet connection click on details and you'll see that I have the same number one not do that one six eight that one not one so that's where my main router is now again you don't have to do that on both connections just on the one that's active and the one that allows you to surf the Internet so close this off close this off close this off so let's take the IP address I'm just gonna highlight it right-click it choose copy open up a browser window and we're gonna go to the router and get configure it and get some information from it okay so we're gonna right-click here paste it in you can just type it in if you want when I do want to succeed that one that one and if you're going to the router the correct place it should ask you for a username and password you know it's different for every different manufacturer but the default username and password for the net gear router is admin for the username and password for the password now you should change those they shouldn't be left to the defaults your if you have a different kind of router like a tp-link you'll have a different default password on in the case of the tp-link router the default password would be admin for the username and admin for the password and whatever manufacturer of router you have there will be a default password hopefully you're not still using that because if that makes your router really easy to hack you should change it it should have been changed when it was set up so it's either in your documentation on a sticker on the router or whoever set up your router will know what it is ok if you don't you don't have any of those things the only way to get back into your router without the username and password is to do what they call a hardware reset which I don't recommend because that will take every setting on your router off and you turn it to the default settings but the default settings will also return the default password but in my case I'm still using it I don't recommend you do so here we're gonna go admin and password for next year those are the the admin those are the user name and password to get into it the default okay and it's gonna login to the main page let me move this down here out of the way and in the neck tier settings what we're looking for in any router that we're setting up regardless of the manufacturer we're looking for the DHCP settings or the DHCP server settings in in this case we're gonna find it in this router under setup and LAN usually in most routers it's under wherever your LAN setup is so we're going to click on LAN setup and here you'll see the DHCP server settings as well as the routers IP address setting which is of course when I do want to 6:8 that one not one and in in pure case if you've got a different IP address as you saw on my router picture you had there's a possibility that your IP address may not be 192.168.1.1 it could be 192.168.0.1 or 2.1 or 3.1 and this picture here will explain to you how to handle that so if yours is not on 1.1 then you will go through the browser page of 192.168.0 that one for example okay usually it's either one sorry 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 but once you check using my procedure you'll know and the DHCP server is set to assign IP addresses to all the network devices on your network and by default it will be assigning a unique name or IP address to every device on your network we need to make sure that it doesn't do that for a certain amount of IP addresses and in my case I'm just going to hit 10 here and that gives us nine free IP addresses that the DHCP server will never assign an IP address to because we don't want it to do that to your default so to your second router or your third router so we're just going to set it to 10 that gives us lots of space we'll hit apply and again you don't really need to know why you're doing this just set it correctly and you won't ever have a problem just so you know so 10 is fine it gives you more than enough space for two more devices actually gives you enough space for 9 more devices so you want to make sure that you check these settings to make sure that they took so let's go back to LAN setup some reason to kick me out and you can see that it's set to 192.168.1.2 n and that's perfect ok so next thing we need to get out of this router is and again if you're on 0.1 then you just put 0.1 in here for the address and you go to the same places and change these settings here we're gonna go to the wireless setup and under the wireless what you need is the SSID so what we're gonna do is is write this stuff down so highlight at that right-click it she was copy put her into my notepad sounds away and you want to keep this information why not right you don't want to go hunting for it every time so you can see I'm using the IP address and I'm gonna put it specifics down so it's SSID and what the SSID on your router is just so you in case you don't know it's the username you use to log into the Wi-Fi account or the Wi-Fi connection on your router so we've got the SSID in my case it's main router at yours it may be different whatever yours is called the other thing we need is the passphrase down here okay so we're gonna again I'm gonna copy that put it into my notepad so I remember it right and in my case that's silly Inc 256 yours would probably be different no doubt let's go here and we've copied that so that's all we need to know from that router we're gonna minimize this so we can close it if you wish get out of the way so we go back to my picture here and now we've got the information we need from the primary router and it's configured correctly DHCP is enabled it's got the right range everything's cool and now we can continue to the secondary router and after that's the tertiary or third router and you can see what formula I used here and again if your IP address is not 1 not 2 and 1/6 8.1 got one it's say 0 then all these ones here with the underscore will be changed to 0 ok so whatever you have change it to that and then go to the routers IP address and configure it correctly so next what I'm gonna do is I'm going to physically connect the tp-link wr8 41 N wireless re with a wire to the laptop and then we'll I'll show you how to deal with that from there all right I'm gonna hard connect to this router using a LAN cable all right this this is a patch cord that came with the actual router itself and it's two rj45 male connectors just a patch cord and I'm going to power up the router so plug the power into it power it up and plug this cord into the back of it and I'll show you where one of any one of these four amber ports not the blue port in this case that's the LAN port we only want to connect to the LAN ports and another thing is after if this router is actually configured and connected wirelessly to have a router these ports are available for you to plug anything you want into them to either access stuff on the network or surf the Internet so these four ports will actually become useful after you configure this router to connect to the other router this board is the LAN port a side of the LAN port it won't be useful you don't use the blue port or the Internet LAN port just the LAN ports you can okay so for more devices can be plugged into that so we're gonna plug in the LAN cable to any one of those amber ports and yes you can do this wirelessly if you know how to get to this router wirelessly when it's powered up but this is the easiest way to configure it so then we take the other end of the cable plug it into the laptops LAN port or network port and we're off to the races now if you don't have a laptop you can do it you could do this on a PC if it has a network card in it outside of that I would say hey log on to it wirelessly using its wireless settings but this is the easiest way to do it and that's the way I'm going to show you they're powered up and physically plugged into the laptop at this point we want to turn off any wireless so we have because we want to make sure that we're only dealing with the hard wired connection so I'm gonna click on my Wi-Fi here and just turn it off there we go so click you know click on the Wi-Fi icon at the bottom and click on well main router for mine I know what yours would be called but just turn it off then at this point we have to connect to the router and if you don't know your routers IP address it's the same procedure as finding it for the main one just go to your windows button go to your gear button and then go to your network let me get this out of the way Network an internet here and down to network and sharing Center and of course change adapter settings once you go there then you'll see that connected to the tp-link here with the Ethernet connection so right click it to status go to details and once again we see the ipv4 default gateway this time its 192.168.0.1 but we're going to change that according to our graphic here to 192.168.1.2 so we're gonna do that first let's go do that so again we know right now that it is on see right here 192.168.0.1 so we're gonna open up the browser window let's do it clean there we go go to one nine two six eight dot zero dot one and since I reset this router to factory defaults Wow you know the factory default passwords in there and that's admin for the username and whoops I've got the caps off on here admin for the username and admin for the password and that's tp-link default passwords admin and Men so here it's trying to go through some sort of default setup we're not going to do that we're just going to click on exit here then we're at the Status page which is generally the first thing on the on the menu over here what we want to do is go to network and then land and here you can see the IP address 192.168.0.1 well we want to change this to dot one dot two like this then we're gonna hit save and it says modification of the land settings will result in rebooting the device so we're gonna do that hit OK and the device reboots and I'll pick this up on the other side of the reboot all right so the reread the router rebooted itself now it's on 192.168.1.2 you can verify that by opening up the browser window clean again like I said so that we're not doing with cached information on the browser if we're gonna go 192.168.1.2 and that is according to what we what I showed you on this graphic right so secondary router one Naidu unless you say that one not to write minimize that will go here hit enter and we got a login again once again a default password you should change these admin admin for tp-link and login all right next thing we're gonna do is go to wireless over here and under wireless we're going to go to or actually right here enable WDS bridging so that's what we're doing basically we're going to use WDS bridging to connect to this router now connect this router to another router so that's our option there so just do that here you could just put in all the information manually but it's a hassle I'll show you how to get the information well the SSID to be bridged is your mate for mine would be main router that's the the SSID for the main router and but this information here like the MAC address is harder to get so I'll show you how to manually get that information but right now we're just gonna hit this button right here the survey button which makes this basically almost automatic so let's go and then you see all the listed information for all the routers in my area that it's found right so we've got main router here that's what we want that's what we want to connect to and look how handy this whole thing is choose the one you want click on connect and it auto populates these fields okay now if your router doesn't have a survey option but does have WDS I wouldn't see why I wouldn't have the survey option but if it doesn't the way to find the MAC address for your other router is to connect to the other router and open up a command window and I'll show you how to do that that's CMD like so and they say you'll see command prompt up there so we're gonna click on that and once you're connected to the other router you do this command which is a RP - a ok and that shows you all the MAC addresses of all the routers and devices on your network and you can see there that the MAC address for my 192.168.1.2 is this number right here dynamic now as you can see here you don't see 192.168.1.1 because I'm not currently connected to it you got to connect to it so you have to either connect to it with a wire with a LAN cable or with your wireless connection and once you do that you'll get that IP address so let's do that I'm going to disconnect quickly here from my Ethernet just disable that I'm going to connect my wireless to the main router which is right there main router can and then we're gonna go to our command or da shell is what I call it but this is the command prompt and here we're gonna type in a P - a again and now you know the MAC address of the primary router right there okay so you know you have the ability to do this manually as well as automatically using the router so I just wanted to show you that as a quick aside so if you don't have the ability to survey your network and get the MAC address which is right there as you can see 10 0 d7 off 6 2 4 5 t see the ARP address gives you that same that same MAC address when you connect to the other router yeah our - a commander okay so a little trick for you to find out your MAC address is on everything on your network but you have to be connected to the network that you want to find the MAC address - so all right so let's reverse what we just did we're going to disconnect from the main router so now we're not on any network because I've disabled my network card here my Ethernet card so I'm gonna enable it again alright so like I said just to you know now I'm connected to it again just an aside to show you how this all works how basically what I just showed you the router doesn't that automatically when you hit the survey button but you may not have that on your router tp-link stew so we're here we're setting up WDS we Peck we pick the main router from the survey page if you don't have that survey functionality now you know how to get that information then we'll go here to WDS mode leave everything on the defaults but it's looking for a password ok so the password field in this case is going to be the same password as your SSID password or your passphrase that we put into over here on our notepad for the main router which was silly ink okay so that's the SSID for the other router to connect to it wirelessly we need that over here so I'm just going to copy that I'll put it over here and me there we go silly ink 256 so we're gonna say save here it says channel cannot be Auto while des bridging is enabled do you want to change the channel on the app on the bridge app channel yes we're gonna say ok on this so it automatically changed the channel to the other machines channel which is 11 so that's automatic too so which is really nice so now we've got that changed over we want to scroll down here and hit save to save all those settings alright now let's get some information out of here first you can see that the wireless network name of this router is tp-link d6z c0 so I'm gonna copy that put it into my notepad so we know that the secondary's routers SSID is tp-link PC d6 c0 okay so that's what we're going to connect to on wireless for the second router now in order to connect to the second router we also need the password so we're gonna go to wireless security over here and you can see that the waters passport word in this case is a number which is 7 8 1 1 4 4 3 1 6 so I'm going to control I'm gonna copy that okay well ctrl C will copy it for me some reason I'm not getting the option to copy that which is probably a security feature so here we're going to do passphrase so you can see that I like to keep records so you should keep records so you know what all this stuff is alright so there it is seven eight one four four one three one six so now we know the SSID and password for secondary router right so here we can hit save one more time if you wish doesn't really matter the information was saved already there's one more setting we need to do on this router in order to not create a conflict with the other router and that is the DHCP and you can see here that it's clearly labeled so DHCP all right start address 192.168.1.1 the other router to serve out IP addresses okay so we turn that off you never want to DHCP servers run running on the same network segment it's called the rogue DHCP router and it's no fun so we'll just turn it off by disabling it note that you know not take effect until this device reboots okay then it gives you the option to reboot it so we're going to hit OK and then once again choose to reboot it one more time okay so it's restarting when it comes back up it will be ready to be connected wirelessly so I'm gonna disconnect my LAN cable here and I'll show you what happens well you know what happens let's disconnect it here and you see I got the red X and I got a red X on everything because my Wi-Fi is turned off so let's turn the Wi-Fi on here we go okay and where do we want to connect we want to connect the tp-link dd6 c0 now you can change it to whatever you wish but let's let's just click on that to connect to it and then you can choose to connect automatically to so let's do that and there we go and you can see my connection was interrupted because I pulled the cable out of it right so we'll just wait for the connection so here we are look at that boom so now we are connected wirelessly to the tp-link dc-6 0 and if we've done everything correctly we should at this point be able to browse the Internet knows that notice how it's on 192.168.1.2 ok exactly where it should be and where it's going to be forever once you set it and you can put that IP address for the secondary router right here if you wish so you know like I said keep records there you go right now save this somewhere and whenever you need this information again you don't have to go digging for it you can even put the arc number the MAC addresses in there if you wish but in this case you don't really need it so let's minimize that I can try logging in here we're not trying I'm good I can log in and I log in as you can see I can log in no problem now are we connected to the other router let's find out let's do 192 actually let me show you on this router where that where that's going to tell you ok WDS status run ok so I'm assuming that means it's connected so let's see if it big and on the menu over here says anything about it no W status status is in it connection is down scan again authenticate associated try to associate run okay so let's run associated successfully ok so when it says run according to the here on the menu we're associated successfully but there is only one way to find that out for sure so let's go 192.168.1.1 and that should get us to the neck your router which is at man password and tada we're into the net gear router now last some final tests can we surf the Internet let's go take a look at Google look at that we're on Google and if you want to know what your IP address is actually we're not going to do that right now and not really important let's do I'm feeling lucky here feeling lucky or playful or whatever and boom we are currently running and today is Robert Moog's 78th birthday well good for him he had some really neat digital music probably the first synthesizer type music not sure about that anyway here we are we're surfing the internet we can go to doodles archive prove that go wherever you wish do what you want you're basically on your way now that we have that secondary router connected to the main router and surfing the internet through Wi-Fi we're going to do the exact same thing with a third router we're going to use the patch cable again we're going to plug it into one of the LAN ports on the back again only one of the orange or amber type ports we won't be using that one same thing applies when this router is connected to the network you'll have four ports on the back that you can plug into and connect anything you wish to it so first LAN cable on one of the land ports not the blue LAN port the other end into the computer or laptop in my case I think so and then we're going to power up the the router by plugging in power and turning it on so basically hit the power button watch it boot up and once that's happened oops didn't get that quick in there on the LAN port and if you don't have a laptop you have a computer a normal PC as long as you have a again a LAN port on it you can go that way otherwise if you know how login to this router wirelessly though I don't suggest that it's not the easiest way to do this then login to it wirelessly and you can configure it from there I just don't recommend that I would recommend that you use the patch cable and connect to it physically like this so now we're gonna go and configure that this router exactly the same way we did the second router third router will be the same as the procedure for the second router except the IP address will be a one digit difference it'll be 192.168.1.3 so let's go set that up again Windows like icon button at the bottom left click on settings the gear icon network an Internet network of sharing Center and change adapter settings and you can see here that under the network connections of that we've got the Wi-Fi is currently on we want to disable that we're gonna work only on the physically connected black router that we just plugged into the laptop so I'm just going to disable the Wi-Fi we'll come back and turn that on no big deal you know before we're done so let's go right-click the Ethernet connection where we're connected to that black router and then choose status and that will give us the ipv4 default gateway which is 192.168.0.1 so we're gonna go to a fresh browser window and log in to that router using that IP address so let's do that so it's going to be 192.168.0.1 enter now you put in whatever you found if it's not 192.168.0.1 if it's 1.1 go there so here we're going to type in the default password and on the TP link it said Minutemen remember change these there we go and then it's it's trying to do a default configuration because I reset it I'm just going to exit here first thing we're going to setup is the wireless so we've got the wireless settings and you can see here all the default settings which are fine the wireless network name or SSID as it's called in most places is tp-link tp-link underscore 0e 4 6 you can change it to whatever you want but that's what I'm going to keep here and I'm gonna note it I've noted it notepad right there ok so remember keep keep these things in a notepad write them down print them out so you don't forget in the future it makes your life boy easier I always you can always come and see this video again if you need to look at yours or how I set mine up so here we're going to go and enable WDS bridging again which gives you ok the same screen that the the last router gave us SSID to be bridged so on and so forth we're going to click on survey again and then we're going to connect to the main router as we have indicated in our graphic right here we're going back to this one ok so it needs a password and in our case it was still the link 256 I believe for the primary yep the main router so copy it if you wish and paste it in here control V will paste it in so hit the control key and the V on your keyboard and it says channel cannot be Auto while WDS vs bridging is enabled do you want to change your channel to bridge apps channel yes we're gonna hit OK on this so it'll save that then we're gonna hit save we'll hit save again just to make sure it's already saved here we're going to go to wireless security on top of that why because we need to set that up so why are the security for this router the wireless password is eight zero three zero seven six zero zero so I'm gonna copy that so trol see into my notes and you can see that I have already done that okay so control V we'll put it back or right click and hit paste and though you'll put it back in there too so now we know the SSID and the passphrase which is what we need to connected wirelessly to this router when we got it fully configured so let's go back here we need to turn off DHCP so we're going to disable that hit save okay and it says no DHCP configure this thing reboots that's fine it ok on that we're not going to reboot it yet because we've got to change its IP address to 192.168.1.3 as we show here in this graphic right so let's go to network again and yes follow my procedure in order of doing this because if you do this out of order or out of sequence it won't work right it'll kick you off and you won't be able to do this anymore so just follow my sequence exactly ok so here we're gonna go to land and you can see here that it says 192.168.0.1 is the IP address of the router which is what we have up here in the browser page we need to change that from 192.168.0.1 to 192.168.1.3 which I showed it in the first graphic there says modification is land setting or result in rebooting this device that's perfectly fine we want to do that right now I'm gonna hit OK and it's going to reboot and I'll pick this up when it reboots and show you what you need to do from there so the router rebooted and brought me back to this web pages which is the 192.168.1.3 web page if yours doesn't automatically do that just put the address into the browser and it should bring you back here we're going to actually at this point we're just going to log into it we're still physically connected to using the land connection okay so I'm gonna hit admin and I've been here for the password username combination and what we're looking for after we log in is right here WDS status it says run if you look over here run means associated successfully which means this router should be connected to the network wirelessly right now with WDS technology so what I'm gonna do is unplug the router physically from my computer you can see that the I got the X there we're going to re-enable Wi-Fi because we want to connect to everything on Wi-Fi wait for that to happen and once that happens we're going to go down here to the wireless icon which has now connected so now we're connected to tp-link DC does d6 see zero underscore d620 and if we look at our notepad you will see that that means we're connected to the secondary router okay so let's see what we can see on the secondary router let's go and go to the primary and then go to the tertiary or the third router I just turned the second the third router on and off just to reset it just to make sure we're clean there so here we're going to go we're connected to number two so let's see if we can connect to both the primary which is the 192.168.1.1 that's the neck here it looks like I can add min and pass word there we go boom we're in let's see if we can connect a number to which we're wirelessly connected to so there really shouldn't be any issue connecting to it there we go admin admin and you can see here the it is the WR 8 41 n so log into it again the status on the WDS is run which is successfully associated everything's working I'm sure if I hit on Google here we can see Google yes we can alright and the last but not least let's see if we can go from the third second router to the third router which is the WR 840 right into it ok so here we can go admin and then again again remember change these passwords WDS status set to run on that router so we can see all three routers from the second router and from the third router if we connect to it which is right here I'm going to forget it so we can connect to it forget I'm going to connect to it as if it was the first time I connected to it so let's see where is it here it is so we're going to connect it's going to ask me for a key of course we've written it down in notepad oops wrong one here notepad and the key or the passphrase is right here that number so I'm going to copy it highlight it copy it go over here and pick it again connect right-click and paste you see the eye here if you want to look at it there it is and next okay so there we are connected to the third router just as we should be right so at this point I don't know if it's gonna let me do this but see even just get back into it no of course that I says I can't log in from more than one place so I'm gonna to close the browser window see if that allows me to just come back in again there we go so we're gonna go1 92168 that 1.3 excuse me the same problem I'm gonna reset that router powering it down powering it back up again yeah they're funny that way some of the routers especially the TP links don't allow you to log into it and neither that's the neck year the neck here doesn't like you logging in from multiple places so I'm gonna do this connection to it again all right click it go back here there we go and make sure that we're connected to it yeah see because I reset it it's switched over and I'll wait for it to show up again so we can see the main router or the secondary router and soon we will see the third router there we go there it is and it's connecting automatically connected secured right let's go to 192.168.1.200 drought err don't really need to connect to it to really prove anything let's make sure we're browsing the internet while we're on it sure enough we are let's see if we can see the other two routers one nine two two wants to fake that 1.2 there it is won't let us login right please try again later weird little quirk basically all you need to do to get past that is reset the router go back in again and on the one one that - when I succeed it's allowing us to get back in so dot one dot one and oops what am i doing hello admin and password okay now I just reset the second router just to you know reboot it and it's so that you guys can see that you can actually see all three routers from all three routers so so let's go back 192.168.1.2 right that's the second router we are currently connected to the third router the e46 I guess I could have used better names for that but it's okay I got it written down and once it boots up it will allow me in hopefully let's see there it is so admin man we're in and third router there it is so that's all three routers configured and on the Internet now if you want to connect a fourth router or a fifth router in the same way it's just follow the same procedure as you as you did with the first and the second router but you would just keep changing the IP address from three to four to five so on right so you could actually make quite a network of these routers connected to the main router okay in a future video I may show you how to connect one router to another router and to another router in other words daisy chain so that it's not a star topology but it's it's a train topology or a serial connection from one router to the next router to the next router okay that may be my next video that's it for my video connecting three wireless routers together using the WDS technology if you like this video and it helped you out in some way do me a huge favor and click on the like button here in the bottom right hand corner and give me a thumbs up okay also if you want to see the notes for this video or links for the routers that I used in this video they're in the video description below as well just go down there and see the links for them and that way you can get them where I got them I like TP like routers I think they're great Netgear is good too it's up to you which which you get and if you get the kind that I've shown on this video you'll be able to configure them exactly like you saw me do because they'll have the right pages okay also on this video you'll see a picture of me up here in the top corner and that picture is a subscription link if you click on that picture you'll be subscribed to my channel and then also as a part of that process you'll see a bell icon the bell icon is the notification icon and if you click on that as well you'll be notified every time I put up a new video and then you can watch it at your 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Channel: Richard Lloyd

Views: 100,336

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Id: zCwJlC_dZgw

Length: 52min 25sec (3145 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 04 2018