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

hello everybody today I'm gonna do a video showing you how to connect two routers together wirelessly I've got a couple of videos on how to do that connecting two routers and three routers together using LAN cables and people wanted to know how to do that wirelessly so in this video I'm going to show you how to do it now you can do this with most standard routers currently available today this is a net gear W in our 2000 version 3 this is an older router and I'm going to be using it as the primary router it's going to be connected by a cable to my modem and into the internet and wirelessly I'm going to share that to this router they're going to talk together and this is a tp-link WR WR 8 for one n router and it has something called WDS which is the wireless distribution system built into the firmware or into the hardware I'm not sure which one it is but basically it has WDS feature in it so in order for this to happen your your a secondary router has to have WDS well at least if you're going to follow this video and have it happen WDS capability the primary doesn't have to have it just the secondary so if you have a a router that has WDS and you want to connect it to any other router you can do that by following the instructions in this video so here's how I'm connecting the two routers in this video we're gonna have a main router in my case the net gear wnr 2000 version 3 and a secondary router a tp-link wr8 41 and now this can be any two routers as long as the secondary has this WDS technology in it and if you don't know whether your second router has WDS technology just check with the manufacturer and the model number and see if it's one of the specifications on the router most routers do have this at this point in time your primary doesn't have to have that technology only the secondary okay so the secondary is the only one that you have to check for to see if it has WD both routers will be connected together using the Wi-Fi a Wi-Fi connection the primary will be connected to the Internet through a modem most likely that's the way mine is going to be and that router will be able to be connected to with a hard cable like these two computers and also share out if the internet with Wi-Fi itself to any wireless device the second router will have the same capability it'll be connected to the Internet through the primary router it will share out the Internet to everybody that's connected to it wirelessly or to the land ports on the back of this router you can plug in hardwired devices like a printer or a computer to the remote router and have it connected to the network all these devices all the stuff connected to both routers will be a part of the same network okay so first thing we need to do is configure the primary writer there isn't much configuration to be done there but we're gonna find out where what the IP address of your primary router is I'll show you how to do that next and then we're gonna log into it so let's go get the IP address of our router because we need that to log into it and do the small amount of configuration and data harvesting that we need to do to finish this configuration so let's go to your windows button here then go to your gear button or settings once you get to settings we're going to go to network and internet and then down here you'll see network and sharing center click on that you'll get all this information but what you want is the link that says change adapter settings now we're not going to change in the adapter settings but we're going there and you see that I'm connected either through Wi-Fi here or through my Ethernet connection now if I disable or turn off my Wi-Fi you'll see there's a red X there so now this is how you know where you're connected the places where you see a red X you're not connected to if you can surf the internet you've got to be connected to internet connection wall network connection of some type somewhere oops and this is where it lists those connections so in my case it's Ethernet in your case it may be just Wi-Fi so I just disconnected the Ethernet and you can see how there's a red X on the Ethernet there and if I connect Wi-Fi then the Abed X on the Wi-Fi will go off but it doesn't matter either one will give us the information we need the information we need is basically we're gonna right-click on the active connection click on status go to details and in the details you'll see ipv4 default gateway and it'll give you a number that's the IP address of your router you'll also notice that it's 192.168.1.1 and that the DHCP server and the DNS server are on the same IP address that is perfectly normal yours may not be this way so what really counts is the DHCP sorry the default gateway at 192.168.1 so look for that that IP address is the IP address of your router so we'll take notepad and put that in there I think here 192.168.1.1 that's my IP address if you have something different whatever it says in that default gateway say it's 192.168.0.1 which is probably the most common second option or first option one of those two then write that down okay I'll deal with these two variations anything else you basically I'll show you on the next slide what you need to know about that but right now we know that the IP address of the router for me is 192.168.1.1 okay so yours will either be that or probably that or 0.1 either one and I'll show you in a slide how we're gonna handle that and close this off here so now we know that our router is on 192.168.1.1 and you can verify that by opening up a a browser window and plugging the number into the address bar so 192.168.1.1 and you get a login screen that's how you know the router needs to be logged into so we know we've got the router IP address so at this point let me open up the slide explain a little bit about IP addresses so you know so what we have is two routers the way we're with the way I'm going to configure them and the primary IP address or the main router is 192.168.1.1 so the next IP address on that network would be 192.168.1.2 and that's what I'm going to give the secondary router now if you have something other than this number 192.168.1.1 say you have 192.168.0.1 then basically at this point what that means is that you have to change the X number here so if X on your router your main router is 0 then X on your secondary router should be 0 - ok so you know this would change into 192.168.0.1 if that's what we found doing what I just showed you and this would change through 1 and 2 that went to fake that 0.2 and all IP addresses on a network need to be unique if they're not they conflict and then neither one or one of them will not work and we don't need that ok so we're gonna go with the unique IP addresses this is what we're gonna go with and you know basically if you've got 0 this changes to 0 this changes to 0 basically ok so these are the rules so next we've got the router we've opened up a browser window we put the IP address into the browser window and now it's asking us for a username and password now my router has been I've factored reset it and it's the default passwords for a Netgear router is min and then as the username and password as the password so we're gonna do that admin and then password now for the tp-link it's different and for various routers it's different so for the tp-link it's it's admin as a username and password as a username and that those are the default passwords if they've been changed then you need to find out what your new passwords are in order to log into it you know if you don't know what the default password for your router is just google it and you know just say whatever your net your your router is default password and you should get a set of passwords that are default for that router and you know that will allow you to log in with the default passwords one more thing if the passwords have been changed they may be written on your router they may be written on a sticker on the router and otherwise you're gonna have to contact the person who set up your router to find out what the password is or do a factory reset which I don't recommend okay because it races all your settings so here I'm going to sign in with the default passwords and we're gonna get a basically an overview of how the routers working you see that it's on an internet that the wireless is on everything's cool everything's green but what we're going in here to do is to configure something called DHCP and what DHCP is is the dynamic host control protocol so what it does is basically dole out IP addresses to your network let's not get too techy with it basically we need to make sure that that router this router doesn't create a conflict with the other router and to do that we've got to set it like this so in my case the DHCP server settings are in the Advanced tab yours that maybe somewhere else usually they're under land so in in the neck tier you go to advanced you go to setup and you go to land setup now yours may be in a different place if you have a different router but you know look at your documentation you'll find that DHCP server this is a common thing in every router all right now the DHCP server usually is set here I had it set before but it's usually set the 192.168.1.2 and well what that means is that this this server is going to give out IP addresses in this range between 192.168.1.2 and 254 the problem with that is that if it gives out for 192.168.1.2 it will knock your secondary router off the network so what we need to do is make sure that never happens and the way you do that is by by changing the starting address from two to say ten that gives us nine IP addresses before it this IP address to do what we want with basically this setting makes sure that the primary router never conflicts with a secondary router here we're gonna hit apply and I know it's all techie you don't really need to understand it just set it that way 192.168.1.2 254 okay so I'm gonna wait for this to come back up to make sure that the setting took that's gonna take a little bit maybe I can go somewhere else how about the LAN setup okay LAN is there let's go back to land ok so there it's refreshed and you can see that it says 10 so that's perfect so it's 192.168.1 10 to 254 done it's set right now if your IP address is different if this would happen in your router happen to be zero then this would be zero to see how it changes automatically so but in my case as we wrote down it's the one that do have one six eight that one that one so we're not going to change that just gonna hit cancel on that so it goes back that's perfectly fine next thing we need to get out of the router are the wireless settings because we're going to connect to this thing wirelessly and the other router needs to know what the SSID and the password is to log in to this router so next thing next place we're going to go is to wire to setup and there's the SSID so I'm gonna copy this information into notepad for myself you guys can copy it on paper I like copying in here notepad because I can paste it too so paste it and here we're going to copy what the SSID exactly is so it's main router so I'm copy that and I'm gonna paste it here and the other things we need to know from this are the security options right which in this case is WPA PSK to right this is important let's see what happens here I'll get back to notepad so we were just gonna take that and just paste it here so we know what it's set to and we need to know the passphrase or password required to get into this wireless with my case is silly Inc 256 of course it's not going to stay that but and just paste it in here so I'm copying it pasting it so cop it's highlighted copy it basic stuff and paste it so now I have all the information that I need for the secondary router to configure the secondary router to connect to this router ok so in the case of you know you can save this information print it whatever you'd like but I'm just going to keep it on the screen here for a bit so I minimize that we're done with this router the next thing we got to do is connect the secondary router I'm gonna physically connect it to this to this laptop so that I can log into it and I will do I'll show you that in a second so that you know how to do that and then from that we'll configure it connect it to this router and at that point I'll show you how to connect to the secondary router and see that it works all right I'm gonna heart connect to this router using a LAN cable alright 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 powered up and plug this cord into the back of it and I'll show you where one of any one of these four and reports 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 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 land 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 it's 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 there we go go to the one nine two six eight dot zero dot one and since I reset this router to factory defaults you know the factory default passwords in there and that's admin for the username and whoops got the caps off on here admin for the username and admin for the password that's tp-link default passwords of men 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 LAN and here you can see the IP address 192.168.0.1 well we want to change this to dot one . - 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 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 not doing let succeed that one not - right minimize that we'll 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 right next thing we're gonna do is go to wireless over here and under Wireless we're going to go to 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 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 ok 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 gonna connect my wireless to the main router which is right there I'm a router connect so it's connecting and then we're going to go to our command or das shell is what I call it but 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 half six two four five t see the ARP address gives you that same that same MAC address when you connect to the other router yeah our - a commander ok so a little trick it's for you to find out your MAC addresses 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 this 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 pick 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 gonna copy that I'll put it over here and the 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 t c b6 c 0 ok 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 water is passable word in this case is a number which is 7 8 1 1 4 4 3 1 6 so I'm going to ctrl I'm gonna copy that coppy no it's not giving the option okay well control-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 all right 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 that 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 going to 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 the d6c zero 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 zero 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 gonna 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 can log in and then log in and 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 one nine two 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 ok so I run associated successfully okay so when it says run according to here on the menu we're associated successfully but there's 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 admin password and tada we're into the neck year 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 that 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 I'm not sure about that anyway here we are we're surfing the internet we can go to doodles are archived prove that go wherever you wish do what you want you're basically on your way right so that's how you bridge two routers together to share the Internet right now we're connected to the secondary router right we can choose to connect to the main router but basically at this point we're done all right so remember keep notes keep everything organized certainly write down your information for your routers like the main router and the secondary router so you know where everything is the SSID and the passphrase for both of them so that you know how to log into them and yeah once you've got the WDS connected correctly and your router says run like this one does 192.168.1.2 and then admin and you can see WDS status run here we're done that's it for my video on how to connect to routers wirelessly using WDS tech WDS technology you should be able to do this with any two routers that have well at least one of them has WDS technology and that's the secondary it requires to have that the primary doesn't have to have it the net gear I don't believe does so it actually does work with just one router having that technology in it it connects you to the other router and then shares out the Internet and the network resources on the other router to everybody on the secondary router alright so I'll put notes in the video description below for you guys links to these manufacturers and so on and you know if you want to check those out just go to the video description below and have a look ok do me a huge favor on this video if it helped you out and if you liked it click on the like button here at the bottom right hand corner and give me a thumbs up it helps my channel it helps my video and I greatly appreciate it also over here on the top corner you'll see a picture of me that is the subscription link you click on that you'll be subscribed to my channel and as a part of the process of subscribing to my channel you'll have the option to click on the bell icon and the bell icon will be the notification icon that will tell you every time I put up a new video so you can 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Channel: Richard Lloyd

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Id: 21tRWUvsQ34

Length: 35min 42sec (2142 seconds)

Published: Mon Aug 27 2018