In this case, you will be connecting two wireless routers, meaning the single point of failure SPoF is minimized. Daisy-chaining the two routersmeans they can share the same network and boost the signal. By doing this you can increase the reach of your Wi-Fi signal strength.
Before you start, you need to decide which router will be your main one and which one will act as an extender. The ideal router to pick should have a better signal and speed. Once that is done, you need to prepare your secondary router. You need to first reset the router, by reconfiguring its settings. This is done to avoid conflict when the main router allocates IP addresses to the network devices. Some examples are:. This will ensure that the network identifies the secondary router as an extension of the main one.
Once all the details check out, connect the two routers by plugging the ethernet cable in the LAN port of the main router and ethernet port of the secondary one. On a Windows machine it is easy. A common subnet is This will be a static IP address. An example of this would be if your old router uses the standard Confirm that both routers are utilizing the same network mask, such as You will then need to plug the new router into the old router using an Ethernet cable.
Connect the Ethernet port in the new router to an LAN port on the first router. Check the Wi-Fi channels between the two routers. You will want to be sure that the Wi-Fi will not overlap on a channel. Then you must lock down your new router to ensure the safety of your connection.
Using the IP address that you assigned the new router noted in step 2 , you can adjust the passwords. Type the assigned IP address for the second router in your web browser.
It should give you options to set or change the password. Some other methods for boosting your Wi-Fi signal is to get signal boosters or extenders which act like little hubs throughout your home, allowing you to utilize your signal to the best of its ability. Daisy chained routers may be cheaper, especially if you have an old router around that can be used at the second router. Then the daisy chain would only require the purchase of an Ethernet cable to connect everything.
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SInce the DHCP starts to serve out IP's starting at , , , etc for all the connected devices, it won't conflict and it makes it easy to login to the router if you need to. Try and space your channels apart, so if you new router is on channel 1 or 3, set this one to 13 or 16, so they are far apart on the spectrum.
This only works if router 1 is out of range of where you go so it's force to try to reconnect, then reconnects to the 2nd router with the same name. If router 1 is too strong and you get a weak signal, it make stay connected to that router and not switch to router 2. If this is the case, then give the 2nd router a different name and you may have to manually switch your connection from time to time if it's hanging on to connection 1.
That's fine. Let it sit long enough that you think the settings are saved, then move it to the new room, plug it into the ethernet cable into one of the LAN ports, and then you should be good. Someone Somewhere Titan. Sep 23, 22, 3 84, 3, Yes, it's easy. Then plug the ethernet cable into one of the LAN ports on each router. Someone Somewhere :. Oct 30, 32, 9 99, 4, I have a question Not everything has an ethernet port, and you don't always want laptops to be chained up.
So I finally got around to trying this out but I literally know nothing about routers or networking or anything. I'd really appreciate it if someone could repeat the instructions as if they were talking to a complete idiot Thanks! You must log in or register to reply here.
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