Wireless Help

rctneil · 3 May 2009 at 16:06

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?

rctneil · 3 May 2009 at 16:47

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?

rctneil · 3 May 2009 at 17:21

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

rctneil · 4 May 2009 at 19:27

This is all set up and working perfectly! - thanks guys!

rctneil · 4 May 2009 at 19:38

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?