Only thing worse than no internet is slow
internet <beep> Hi i’m vamsi and lately, I’ve been getting
poor WiFi reception after moving to a new house. Thankfully, I had this old WiFi router, which
I was able to turn into WiFi repeater. How did i do that? Well, I’ll show you how But, before we get into it, let’s see what
others have done so far and why i didn’t choose them. 1. The first option that pops in my mind is to
buy a WiFi repeater, it’s is a small wireless device that receives the signal from your
router and re-broadcasts it. They’re dirt cheap and are genuinely a good
option, but I decided to look other or even better options. 2. So i came across this thing called Powerline,
unlike a WiFi repeater, which uses WiFi, powerline adapters transmit data across the electrical
cables in your home. Powerline adapters are 10 fold better than
Wi-Fi extenders because you don’t have to worry about positioning them within range
of your router. Again, it’s a smart option, but they are
pretty expensive, well what's a better alternative. 3. Finally, you can install DD-WRT on your router
and use transmit power option. I already a DD-WRT on my main router, so I
tried it and guess what ...it did work, but it only increases the range of my Wi-Fi router
by a few meters. Which should suffice for most of you orcs. After that odyessy , I decided to use my old
router as a WiFi range extender. The only downside is, I’ve to connect both
routers with an ethernet cable. But hey, it’s gets the job done. <animation> Here’s my home setup looks like, the main
router (connected to ISP internet line) is placed in the ground floor. While the second floor gets weak or no WiFi
signals. So we will connect our secondary router to
the main router using an ethernet cable and place it at the second floor of the house. Now both routers will broadcast the same network,
and we will have full WiFi coverage in the entire house </animation> So, before we begin do make sure you’ve
got Two WiFi routers. Or Even a WiFi ADSL modem should work
A long Ethernet cable (cat5 or 6) to connect both routers. Computer with Ethernet port to configure the
routers. This one was the toughest to find, since I
only have Mac’s at home. Anyhoo, once you have set up everything , here
is how you Use a Second Router as an Access Point ---
Body ----- That’s how you Use a Second Router as an
Access Point. Obviously, you would save a lot of time, by
buying a WiFi repeater or a powerline, but it’s a fun sunday project. Now that you’ve got WiFi reception everywhere,
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Vo starts here -- Part 1 Check details of your main router In this step, we will make a note of our main
router’s SSID and password. 1.1 I am assuming that you are already connected
to your main router with WiFi or ethernet cable. For this instance, my WiFi name is - Batcave. So open your computer, launch your favorite
browser and type in your router’s IP address. If you don’t know your router’s IP address,
open cmd and type in ipconfig /all for windows or route -n get the default for Mac. The IP address corresponding to the default
gateway is your router’s login page. Usually, it either 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.0.1 1.2 Next it will ask for username and password. Again if you don’t know your router’s
login username and password, look at the back of your router or google your router’s model
number. In most cases, it’s admin and admin or admin
and password. 1.3 Once you are in the router’s setting
page, look for Wireless option. Depending on your router, you can either find
this information in the front page, or you might to look into LAN or Wireless settings. There you will see your router’s SSID, mode,
password and its encryption type. For example, my SSID or WiFi name is Batcave,
password is robin204, encrryption is wpa2, and mode 11 b/g/n mix Write down their values on a piece of paper
or notepad. We will need them later. 1.4 Close the browser and disconnect your
computer from primary routers. STEP 2: Configure secondary router
Configure secondary router In this step, we will configure our secondary
router such that, it has same SSID/password of our main router. And also change few settings of the secondary
router, so that both routers do not conflict with each other. 2.1 Take your secondary router and power it
ON. At the back of the router, you will see a
reset pinhole. Take a tip of Pen and press the hole for 5-10
seconds, till you, all the lights on your router blinking. This will put your router back to factory
setting. 2.2 Now keep the router powered ON and connect
your secondary router to your computer using an ethernet cable. You can also connect via WiFi, if you don’t
have a computer with RJ45 jack. for example you’ll see SSID like TP-link followed by
model number or Netgear etc. But it’s better to do this on LAN cable,
so I’ll turn off my wifi and connect my old router to this computer via lan cable. You can check from the network settings, that
it’s connected to the ethernet and see the router’s IP address there as well. Now again open this router login page using
the same method we follow in step 1, i.e. type in the router’s IP address in your
browser and then enter login credentials. Once you are in the router setting page, go
to wireless options. And there enter the similar SSID, for this
instance, I’ll name my old router as Batcave2, so that you can see the difference. But in general, it’s recommend, that you
should keep same WiFi name. The reason being, If two access point have
same ssid and encryption settings, they are saved as one wifi connection, and it’ll
be easier for your smartphones to automatically connect to stronger signal when you are moving
around the house. Next type in the same - mode, password and
encryption that you have copied in step 1. 2.3 Next you need to make sure there is no
conflict between our primary and secondary router. So, First turn off the DHCP in the secondary
routers. Our main router will do the work of assigning
IP address to the device. Second, change the IP address of your secondary
routers. For instance, if both routers have IP address
there will be conflict. In my case, both router have different IP
address, so there will be no conflict, but I’ll show you how to change that anyway. So, to avoid conflict between two routers,
we will assign secondary router an IP address of 192.168.1.200 2.4 Finally now we have to make sure this
secondary router work as a repeater. So ensure that the operational mode is set
to router only. In some router, you won’t see operational
mode option. In that case, you have to look at NAT option
and make sure it’s disabled. So overall what we have done here is Copy setting from primary routers like SSID
and password Make sure there is no conflict b/w these router
by turning OFF DHCP and router’s IP address We have to make sure that our secondary router
only works in router mode and not gateway. Save changes and disconnect your secondary
router STEP 3: Connect both routers
Connect both routers In this last step, we will connect both routers
with an ethernet cable. 3.1 So take your ethernet cable and connect
any one LAN port of the primary router to the LAN port of the secondary router. Make sure you are connecting it to the LAN
port of secondary router and not WAN port Part 4: Now, let’s test it. And that’s it. You can test your connection. Fire up your terminal and ping Google. Now, when I connect to batcave (or my primary
router) you can see the internet is working, now, let’s connect to second old router
(i.e. batcave2) and voila, it’s working as well. You can also, download a free WiFi scanner
app like WiFi Analyzer from PlayStore. When I near batcave, the signal is best and
when I move around the house and go to other side, the signal of batcave drops but my phone
automatically connects to batcave2, which has better signal strength. If your phone is not automatically switching
to best WiFi singal, you can download apps like auto switch, or make both
wifi ssid in same name.
