help connecting 2 routers up via lan for more wifi coverage

SniperDude

SniperDude

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this is what I want to do

downstairs has a wireless N router using dd-wrt firmware with a cat5 cable coming upstairs into my PC room switch box

upstairs the wifi signal is bad BUT I have a spare Linksys router on tomato firmware that only supports G

I was wondering is it possible to connect this Linksys router to my switch
so it could give better signal for upstairs but with still using the DHCP from the downstairs router

I would be grateful for any advice on how to do this as I am next to clueless
with networking
 
If you're using the Tomato firmware it's almost certainly got an option to use the router as a wireless access point/repeater, if so use that.
Otherwise what you need to do is basically turn off the DHCP server on the router you want to use to improve wireless coverage, and connect it to the wired network via it's LAN connections (thus effectively making into a wireless access point + wired switch).

You may need to change that routers IP address though if it's using the same default IP as the one you will be using as a router :)

I've done basically the same thing with a Belkin N router, I needed to improve our network coverage and the cheapest way was to buy a cheap router, disable it's DHCP and bung it on the LAN next to one of our existing PC's :) (I was actually surprised the Belkin had "use as an access point" as a default option).
 
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my main router is 192.168.2.1
the second one is 192.168.1.1

second one isn't responding to pings or can get into the config will it be due to this ip
 
I would use DD-WRT on it if you can, you can set it to access point mode and it simple acts as a wireless access point. Is the easiest way of setting up IMO.
 
I will add DD-WRT on it at a later date but for now its working fine on tomato firmware.


@Werewolf when you come out of one routers range and into the other
on your does it just switch or does it have to drop out first or do you have to disconnect and reconnect ?
 
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