Access Point Query

swain90 · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:21

Hi All,

Just been thinking about ways of extending the Wi-Fi signal within the home.

I don't really want to use a Wi-Fi range extender as depending on signal you may need multiple extenders, and my experience with PowerLine adapters hasn't been very positive.

I was wondering if there was a way to run some Cat5e from the router down stairs up to an access point upstairs which would then broadcast the same SID without running into any problems?

Cheers

Swain90

pepp77 · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:32

Yes this is completely possible and is basically what I do. Downstairs I have my main router with Wireless and then I have a cat5e cable running upstairs to a second router (connected to a LAN port) which also has wireless on it. Both devices use the same SSID and password.

swain90 · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:44

I take it the router you're running upstairs has the same DHCP subnet range?

e.g. Downstairs and Upstairs give out 192.168.1.x addresses?

pepp77 · 8 Sep 2015 at 14:47

Okay in more depth

Router 1 - 192.168.1.1

DHCP turned on.
Wireless SSID set to wireless1
Password set to password1

Router 2 - 192.168.1.254

DHCP turned off (statically assigned to 192.168.1.254 with a gateway of 192.168.1.1 - just so I can easily manage it)
Wireless SSID set to Wireless1
password set to password1

Anything that connects to the wireless of Router1 will get an IP address from that router, anything that connects to the wireless of Router2 will also get an IP address from Router1.

swain90 · 8 Sep 2015 at 15:01

Thanks for the info!

I presume it's just a normal cable router you're using for Router 2?

pepp77 · 8 Sep 2015 at 15:05

Downstairs is TP-Link Archer C7 and upstairs is Trendnet TEW-813DRU.