I have several wireless devices in my room and the router is downstairs and i hardly get a signal, I can pick up my neighbours signal better than ours and theres is in the next house in a room furthest away from ourselves. Is there any way in which I can take a spare wireless router and place it upstairs somewhere and take an ethernet from the current router to the new one and ahve both routers broadcasting the signal?
Wireless Help
- Thread starter rctneil
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Just found out a bit about doing this and figured that I can use a spare router upstairs with a cable from the old one to the new one but need to set the new one to disbale the DHCP server. When i plug it in and go to 192.168.1.1 I get the config of the current router. How do i access the new router so i can disable DHCP?
If you are getting the downstairs router when you type in 192.168.1.1 then that is not the IP of your upstairs router.
Do an ipconfig and see what its listing as your defualt gateway, this will probably be the address you need to access the upstairs routers config page. If the upstairs router has DHCP disabled already you are in luck!
Also what routers are being used? Are they cable routers or ADSL routers? If they are cable routers and you've plugged the downstairs router into the upstairs WAN port then you've effectively set up 2 networks.
Do an ipconfig and see what its listing as your defualt gateway, this will probably be the address you need to access the upstairs routers config page. If the upstairs router has DHCP disabled already you are in luck!
Also what routers are being used? Are they cable routers or ADSL routers? If they are cable routers and you've plugged the downstairs router into the upstairs WAN port then you've effectively set up 2 networks.
If bother routers are trying to use the same IP, then connect your pc to only the router you want to change the IP of, then change its IP, once done you can hook your pc and the router up to the network again.
Also if you are getting a bad signal make sure you have done the basic things to improve it, such as choosing a channel as far away from other used channels as possible, because wifi channels heavily overlap, so dont choose channels in use or near ones in use. Also im not sure how much of a difference it makes, but if you have adjustable aerials, make sure they are not pointing towards the wifi devices you plan on using, since the top and bottom of the antenna is the weakest part of the signal.
The first router is a D-Link DSL 2640R and the seocnd one is a Linksys WAG200G
Our DSL line comes in downstairs and plugs into the WAN port. I have an ethernet cable from LAN1 on the downstairs router to LAN 1 on the new upstairs router.
Also, what IP address do I set the new upstairs router to be?
Thanks
Regards,
Neil
Our DSL line comes in downstairs and plugs into the WAN port. I have an ethernet cable from LAN1 on the downstairs router to LAN 1 on the new upstairs router.
Also, what IP address do I set the new upstairs router to be?
Thanks
Regards,
Neil
make sense!
Make sure the DHCP scope on router 1 starts at 192.168.1.3 at its assignable address
Right, new question on same subject. Eaach router is in place and both have separate wireless network names "Network" and "Network 2", how can i configure a laptop to connect to either wireless access point but connect always to the one with the strongest connection and then if the other becomes stringest for a while then to flick to that one?
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urgh, wireless roaming can be a pain in the rear end.
Easiest way would be to give them both the same SSID but on different channels and if you're lucky it will work.
In windows you can set a preferance list of networks but think it will only connect to one if the other isnt available at all, not whichever is strongest.
Easiest way would be to give them both the same SSID but on different channels and if you're lucky it will work.
In windows you can set a preferance list of networks but think it will only connect to one if the other isnt available at all, not whichever is strongest.