How To Connect Three Routers On One Home Network & Sharing The Internet Using Lan Cables TpLink/NetG

hello everybody recently I did a video on how to connect to routers on a home network using a LAN cable as you see here these two the two routers are used and I got a lot of questions on that video on how to connect a third router to that whole system so today I'm going to show you how to do that we're going to go through connecting to first and then we're going to connect a third router and all these routers will see each other they will all be using Wi-Fi and it all be connected with a LAN cable and they will all be sharing the internet so just like the first video where I showed how to connect to we're going to do three now I'm using a LAN cable to connect all three but you can use powerline adapters but I'm not going into that in this video I will do a video in the future where I use a power line adapter instead of a LAN cable to do this same thing here is the network diagram of what I'm going to configure in this video I've got my main router which is the net gear connected with a LAN cable over to my secondary router which is the tp-link WRA 41 N and then from there I got another LAN cable that's going to go from it to the tp-link w dr 4300 now all these routers will be part of the same network they'll all be sharing or they'll all be supplying Wi-Fi to clients and they will also allow you to connect laptops through Wi-Fi or tablets through Wi-Fi or you know hardwire clients like pcs through a LAN cable or LAN connection so basically all three will be able to do this the same function and they'll all be part of the same network that I'll be sharing internet between each other and every device connected to any one of these three routers will be able to see the other device and other device on the network they'll all be part of the same network so pretty cool setup now first thing we need to do is that determine what the structure of this router of this network is going to be by finding out what the IP address of your home router is so let's first do that let me minimize this out-of-the-way so I'm connected to my router or my home network through Wi-Fi here we go Netgear 73 that's my connection but you may be connected differently but regardless finding out the IP address of your home router is pretty simple right click your network icon down here choose open network and sharing center and then go to change adapter settings over here and then you'll see all your network connections now of course mom connected through Wi-Fi so that's what's active here if you were connected to Ethernet or LAN cable then your Ethernet would be active but regardless the procedure of getting the IP address is the same just right-click your network icon the active one then to status then go to details and under details you'll see all your IP and network configuration information basically the first sorry the information that actually counts is the default gateway the DHCP server and the DNS server you'll note that they're all the same IP address 192.168.1.1 ok that's significant so that's the IP address of your home network make sure you write that down and note it somehow I can just remember it but that is going to be that the the basis of the IP numbers you're going to use to assign those to assign to the other routers so let's just minimize the stuff out of the way or close it and go back to our network diagram so I'm going to go over here now I've got this all labeled out but my IP address on my primary was 192.168.1.1 and the third number or the third octet of the number on that router determines the network so whatever you found if you found 192.168.0.1 then basically you would change the third octet on all your routers or all the devices you're assigning an IP address to to X so if it was zero then you know here you instead of one you'd have a zero that's determined by X here and the same on the third router if it's if it's 2 or 3 or whatever it is that whatever that third number is it should be the same all the other routers then you will change the last number appropriately from 1 to 2 and from 2 to 3 on the third router ok so that's going to be the structure of our network and what you need to do to connect these 3 routers and have them all see each other alright so next thing we need to do is actually configure the IP addresses on these two other routers we're connecting because more than likely they will not be correct so we're going to physically connect the tp-link WRA 41 N and as well after that after connecting it and setting it up correctly we're going to physically connect the wdr 4300 as well so let's do that I'll show you how to do that physically on my laptop all right I've got the Grider powered up V this is going to be not a router number two and basically what we're going to do is take a patch cable and I suggest using cat 5e or higher capability cables or designated cables because they're more reliable and faster now if you don't know what kind of cable you have it's usually written right on it mine says it right on it cat 5e and if it's not written on your cable then more than likely you have something lower like a cat 5 cable so again try and use cat 5e or upgrade - cat 5e as it's faster and more reliable so we're going to take this cable and plug it into any one of the orange ports on this router and the orange ports on this router are the LAN ports the blue port is the Internet port or the LAN port we're not going to be using that again in this configuration so what I usually do with that blue port just so that nothing ever gets plugged into it and you know what expect it to work I just put a piece of black tape over it like like so and cover it up so that no one plays anything into it so we're going to take the cable plug it into any one of those four ports and then take the other side of that cable and plug it in to our land or network port on the actual laptop so now we're going to login to the laptop and I'll show you how to get the IP address on this thing and then how to set it correctly for our configuration all right we got it connected let's go down here to our network icon the bottom right hand corner right-click it choose open and network sharing center go to change adapter settings and you see that we're connected through Wi-Fi and Ethernet but we want to know what the Ethernet information is because that's where the router is actually connected so let's right-click it choose status then details and then we note down here that the default gateway DHCP server and DNS server are all on 192.168.0.1 so that's where that routers IP address is so let's close this up you're going to open up a browser window here and we're going to go to 192.168.0.1 now TP links default username and password to login is admin for the username admin for the password all lowercase so you know if you've got one of these routers and you haven't changed the username and password which I suggest you do we defaults our admitted mint so let's go admin I left mine on defaults just for the sake of brevity here login and I've set reset this router to its default settings so that's where you end up you end up in this quick setup screen we don't care about that first thing we need to do is go to DHCP over here and we need to disable DHCP you can't have more than one DHCP server on a network it just wreaks havoc so we're going to disable it here and click Save all right and it says it won't change until it reboots well we're going to reboot it so we'll just hit OK here and next thing we need to do is set the network IP address for it so we're just going to go over here to network and land and here you can see it's when I do that one six eight dot zero dot one we're going to change it actually yeah yeah we're going to change it to 192.168.1.2 okay that's what we need to do to get that to go right so we're going to hit save here and hit okay so that's now it's going to reboot and that we're going to lose it here in a second because it's going to change its IP address from 192.168.0.1 to 1.2 so at this point we're done with this router as far as setting up its configuration for IP information so we'll just let this reboot I'm going to close this off or just minimize it and detach that router and go and show you how to connect the third router physically to this laptop and then we're going to do the same thing again our third router will be the same procedure for finding out the IP address power it up take the cat 5e cable plug it into any one of the orange ports that you wish again the blue port on this router is the internet or ant or LAN port again you can just put a piece of tape over that so that you never plug a cable in there and expect it to work because we'll never be using that port in this configuration so take the other side of the cat 5e cable plug it into the laptop like we did before and we're going to go through the same procedure of logging into the router changing its IP address and configuring correct correctly for our current network okay now we're going to configure the third router and it's the same procedure as the second router more or less just a different IP address so we're going to right click the network icon him down here open and then click on open network and sharing center then we're going to change the after settings and again I'm connected to Wi-Fi here and also Ethernet but Ethernet swear you want to go because that's where we got the cable for the router plugged in so right click that to status then choose details and you see here that we have default gateway again of 192.168.0.1 dhcp zero one again and dns server one and two i-680 one again so again the router is on that same IP address so we're going to go and log into it so I'm just closing this stuff off and you're right oh right now we're going to type in one nine two one six eight dot zero dot one and again we get a tp-link admin page here default password is admin lowercase so our username is an in lowercase password is the same admin lowercase and it's into quick setup because I reset the router but doesn't matter first place it when I go through DHCP want to disable that hit save says it won't change until you reboot that's fine okay now we're going to go to network and LAN and here we're going to change the IP address from 192.168.0.1 to 1.3 as you saw in the diagram that I had below basically this is going to be the third router so okay it's going to use the one nine two one six eight that one not three and click Save and of course Facebook this will make their router reboot and that's perfectly fine we'll let it do that and at this point once it reboots we'll lose it because it will change its IP from 0.1 to 1.3 but it doesn't matter because we're done here at this point we can disconnect the router and we can go and connect back to our regular our home router or the first primary router so I've just disconnected it from the via network and actually turned it off and back back to our primary router we need to do one more configuration on it so let's go and login and the primary router of course is on 192.168.1.1 and I'm connected to it through Wi-Fi here ok so let's go into it and its user name because if the net gear is admin and the password is password that's the defaults for the net gear login to that now one thing I want to show you too is that net gear has a two different interfaces this is the one interface the genie and let me go get the IP address or the address for the second one here all right so now we're into the router I wanted to show you the two different interfaces but just quickly here we're going to go and set up this internet configuration on this router so that it will allow the other two routers to be connected so I'm gonna click on advanced here we go set up and I will show you this setting in both interfaces for Netgear we have the net gear genie here and we have the standard smart wizard page here which is one of the two ways you're going to see your interface depending on which firmware you're running on the net gear and here we're going to go to land setup on the Advanced tab and notice that the router is using DHCP server which is the way it should be should be running a DHCP server only on the main router but the way Netgear sets up to the router it's it's basically the DHCP server is giving out IP addresses to everything on your network and every device on your network needs to have a unique IP address only issue is that no two if two items on your network have a duplicate IP address either one of the devices will probably not work now the way that Netgear setups sets up DHCP is basically they assign all IP addresses for everything on your network and that will work well if it assigns the same IP address as one of your two routers so what I'm going to do here is make a little bit of space in the range of IP addresses that the DHCP server is assigning to allow us some space to put our own IP addresses on those two routers so which you know we've already set them up but we need to make space on the network for those to IP addresses so what I've done is I've put a starting IP address of what I do was a fake dot one dot ten and it goes to 254 that gives us a total of nine space nine IP addresses that we can actually assign anything we want to okay so to anything we want that is so here we going to hit apply and it's going to go through the gear there but I'm going to show you where that is on the regular or the older I set up on the net gear and again you scroll down here to advanced then you see LAN IP setup here there we go advanced LAN setup and you see again it's set for two and then the highest number being 254 so here you would just set ten and then hit apply okay so we've done that here so we're done setting up the IP address range for DHCP server on the net gear the tp-link you don't need to do this with because the tp-link actually starts the VIP assignments at a hundred and goes to $1.99 so there's lots of space in the DHCP an assignment for TCP for a tp-link router so you don't need to bother with it but a neck here you do and that's why I'm showing you it here so we're done with that now we got to physically connect all three routers together and once they're physically connected they are more or less done they will be doing what I said they would be doing which is sharing out the internet through all three routers and anything connecting to them so if after connecting them physically the next thing we're going to do is actually configure the Wi-Fi so that it functions in the most efficient and effective manner possible and I'll show you how to do all that next I've got all three routers connected now the main router is connected to the Internet and all the other two routers as well so I'll show you how that's physically done I've got a patch cable to one of the orange ports doesn't matter which one you choose I chose one here on the third router it goes over to the second router into one the orange ports there which are the land ports on both of those are the large ports of land ports then I've got another one going from another one of the orange ports on the second router over to the primary router which is the neck here on one of the orange ports there now again I stated that you don't really have to connect this one to this router you can actually connect the third router into one of these three ports as well but I've got it you know running from three two and one okay so next thing I'm going to do is show you how this all works I would suggest that we're also going to do the configuration of the wireless on all of these and though you can do it through being connected through Wi-Fi I strongly suggest that you don't do it being connected through Wi-Fi because as you change the settings you'll be kicked off so what I'm going to do is use another LAN cable like this one and connect to the main router on the back of one of these ports here and take the other end of it and physically connect to my laptop and then we're going to go through all the routers and set up all the Wi-Fi so that it works in the most efficient and beneficial way possible for you and I'll just describe the scenarios where you can have different configurations to get better performance depending on your physical location of your routers all right we're hardwired into the main router which is then wired into all the rest of them so what we're going to do is go over here to the network icon right-click it again open network and sharing center then we're to go to change adapter settings and I'm just going to disable my Netgear I'm sorry my Wi-Fi connection so that I'm only going through the land connection that I got physically connected to the router which is right here and so I'm just going to minimize the read this now just get out of the way for now minimizing it because we're going to come back and turn it back on again but you're Gladys you don't want to do the Wi-Fi configuration through you know a Wi-Fi connection it's just way too convoluted so let me show you something here Wi-Fi connections run on what they call channels especially 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi connections they have 11 channels only 3 of those channels are actually independent of each other in other words they don't overlap and that is 1 6 and 11 ok so those 3 channels what you want to use for your 3 routers so we're going to set the channels first and as you can see here on the picture I've got them you know showing of which writers I'm going to put the numbers on and I also show that the signals do overlap but it doesn't matter because they're on the independent channels that don't actually interfere with each other so let's go do that first so open up the browser window we're going to go to 192.168.1.1 mine would actually start typing for me 192 I succeed that one that one there we go and we're going to log in to my net d router which is admin password and ok so it's saying I'm are currently logged in from another vise I'm going to click on proceed here yes and it's going to ask me to log in again resetting my other routers here just stay with me for a second and here we're going to go again and then kind of an annoying thing but log in again there we go alright so now we're in we want to go to wireless so we're going to go to click on wireless here and here you see that the channel is set to auto okay well that means it'll bounce around anywhere it feels like putting itself so here we're going to change this to 1 as it is our primary route as I showed in the picture here rather first router is number one and I'm going to change the name of the SSID to first router but I'll show you that we'll do that a little later right now we're just changing channels so we change that to channel two one is applying perfect open up another browser window here and we're going to go to 192.168.1.2 which is the second router again admin and default password admin again lower case for the tp-link and we're going to go to wireless there too again notice the channel is on auto which means it could be anywhere so I'm going to change this to six and I'm going to hit save there alright and open up another browser window here and we're going to go to 192.168.1.3 and again access to the router so notice how I have access to all three routers through one connection no problem at all which is the way things should work so again and then lower case again for the password admin and again so here we're going to go to wireless and again the channels to auto all these manufacturers separately channel to auto for some reason I'm going to change it to eleven so I'm going to hit save so now we have this configuration that I showed you first router on channel one second router on Channel six third router on channel 11 now that's beautiful that means that they won't actually interfere with each other when they're talking this is a good important thing so that's step one of configuring the routers being Wi-Fi on these routers step two I got a lot of questions on my other video hey Richard I want to set the SSID to be the same as it is on the primary router and because I don't want to keep changing or logging into the new router I want just to walk from one router to the other and have it switch automatically well unfortunately that's not the way this system or it's not the way that Wi-Fi protocols work on you know in you know a normal router situation like we have here now if you have a home whole home Wi-Fi set up which is the $300 or a system Wi-Fi system which spreads Wi-Fi throughout your city right throughout your house and gives you the fastest Wi-Fi speed you can at all times and I'll put a link to that in the video description below but basically unless you have that you can't do this because when you have routers that are overlapping with each other what happens is that your Wi-Fi connection will connect to the first router the first router that answers the call to connect now it may not be the strongest router it doesn't doesn't necessarily matter that you're next to the really powerful router and the other routers in the other room the other router mansoor the call to connect before the for the more powerful one is answer so you never know which route are you going to be connected with the current was the configuration you see here on the screen so I don't recommend this unless let's go back over here unless you have this situation where you have three separate zones that don't overlap in other words you can't see the other three routers from one other router using Wi-Fi so if you're sitting in the living room and that's covered by the primary router and you don't see the other two routers in that living room yes then you can have that Wi-Fi have the same address same SSID or network name as the other two again notice that none of these overlaps so whenever you are in any one of the zones for one of those three routers the only router you see is the one that you're in that zone for now this works because since there's no overlap the second you take say let's say you're connected to a tablet the second you take that tablet out of that zone it disconnects from that that Wi-Fi router and then starts looking for a new one then you walk into the other zone where there is a Wi-Fi router and it connects to that one automatically you know as Wi-Fi one again same thing that would happen if you walk from this zone over to this zone now this is the only time I can recommend having the same SSID for all three routers okay go back I'll explain this again again say you connect to you got your tablet and connect to this router here second router okay and your you know connected as Wi-Fi one well that even though you're connected with your tablet and you walk into this zone it won't let go of the green zone it'll keep keep you connected to that green zone until you walk out of that zone into the next zone which maybe this is on here in which case it will switch but you could be right next to the other router and still be in the green zone and not be connected to the fastest most powerful router you have just because you're standing next to it that's just the nature of a Wi-Fi works I've tested this out trust me you don't want to do this if you have overlap on your routers so what I suggest you do is go to basically set these SS IDs as different okay so you know you'll have Wi-Fi one Wi-Fi two and Wi-Fi three now that passwords can all be the same you don't have to have separate different passes for each one of them just a different SSID for each router so let's go set this up minimize this go back to our routers that we were already connected to through a LAN connection and we're just going to call this Wi-Fi one Wi-Fi one and hit apply and then we're gonna go to the next rider and here we're going to call this one Wi-Fi two and hit safe and then we're going to go to the third router and we're going to call it Wi-Fi three make you know given names that make sense you know it's safe now all of these can have the same password so I'll put that in here okay so we've got all the names changed and this thing's still rebooting here so I'm going to go to wireless security here and we're going to change the wireless password all of them are going to be the same so that makes it easier for you when you're setting them up and me when I'm setting it up so I'm going to hit save on that one and we're going to go to the number-3 router over here go to wireless security again change the password to the same as if we had on the last one hit save and now it says that you need to reboot so I'm going to hit reboot here and reboot and hit okay and this one doesn't say you need to reboot so I'm thinking that it's taking this deciding already so let's go to Wireless setting yeah Wi-Fi - on channel 6 wireless security is the right one so let's go back to the neck here it's a little slow we've got Wireless let's go to wireless security walkie I've got the right address or passphrase in there already or a password and I can hit apply again but it doesn't really matter at this point all my wife eyes are set up in a congruent and efficient and the least likely way to give you any trouble at all if you have overlap of the signals okay so let's go look at our Wi-Fi over here so oh yes we turned off Wi-Fi via the adapter so let's go back and our you know turn that back on so right-click your network open network sharing change adapter settings and enable your Wi-Fi there we go and I'm going to disconnect my LAN cable there we go that's off of there we can close this off now we're connecting through Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi only and we should say we should see all our routers well we got Wi-Fi 1y 5 - y 5/3 how nice is that right so let's connect to Wi-Fi 1 it's asking us for the passphrase or net our password I'm just going to paste it in there and hit next and we're connected and we should be on the internet right at this point let's open up a third window here and let's go to Google yep we're connected to Wi-Fi one and we can surf the Internet so let's go do that for Wi-Fi - same procedure again paste it in there next all right we're connected to Wi-Fi to see if we can browse Google Maps let's go there yep there we go we're connected so let's go back and let's go to Wi-Fi 3 next and I just reboot it 5 5 3 but I'm just going to connect to a vo see if it allows me yep and y53 just paste the password in there next and it should let me in here in a second like I said I just rebooted it Wi-Fi three connected so now we should be able to browse the Internet do whatever you want so let's go YouTube here and we also should have access to all the what I call it the router so not great there we go YouTube there we go so we should still be able to see I like all our routers here yep there's we keep your link on three and status here keep you linked on two and the Netgear genie on one let's say to go home and log into it admin and whoops all lowercase there we go so that's it we've got all three routers configured running perfectly all the Wi-Fi connected and labeled right and in a way that makes sense and also so that they don't overlap and basically disable each other working beautifully all the channels are set on those Wi-Fi settings if you set your network the way I just showed you to set these three routers it should work flawlessly now you can add a fourth router but again at that point you're getting into that hey only three channels on Wi-Fi do not cross top so once you introduce the fourth one you're going to at you're going to introduce a little bit of lagging to your Wi-Fi but you know if you're going for four put it far away from the other router and if it doesn't overlap you should be fine okay so next basically there's no next that's it we're all set up as you can see we've got access to the Internet we've got three Wi-Fi connections running right here Wi-Fi one Wi-Fi to Wi-Fi three you connect to whatever one you want anytime you want and you can browse the Internet through and also see any of your network devices on whatever Wi-Fi connection you go on or whatever way you're connected to the routers beautiful okay so that's how you connect three routers together or your home router to two other routers you know and make them share the internet and network resources okay that's it for my video if you like this video and it helped you out in some way do me a very big favor and give me a like or a thumbs up at the bottom right hand corner of the screen and basically that I that helps my videos it helps my channel and I greatly appreciate it also somewhere here on the screen you should see a picture of me that is a subscription link to my channel if you want to see more videos like this in the future I you know you just subscribe to my channel and as you're subscribing you'll see that there's a little bell icon next 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Channel: Richard Lloyd

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Length: 35min 36sec (2136 seconds)

Published: Wed Jul 12 2017