6/5/2023 0 Comments Router as wifi extenderWithout needing network cables, or powerline adaptors, that is. If you’re lucky or you chose well when you bought your old router it might already have the features necessary to be reused to improve Wi-Fi coverage. You will find that you have successfully extended the reach of your wireless network and now have a second wireless access point. Take a smartphone, tablet or laptop, and check to see the signal strength when close to each of the routers. With both routers now turned on, it’s time to test your network. Remember, too, that once you’ve change the router’s IP address you will have to wait for it to reboot, and then access it by typing the new IP address into your browser’s address bar. On each configuration page, confirm your choices by clicking ‘save settings’ at the bottom of each page as you go. Remember this address as you might need it to access this router later. Give the slave router an IP address of 192.168.1.50. To assign a fixed IP address, let’s assume the main router has an address of 192.168.1.1 and that it’s setup to to issue addresses – by DHCP – between 192.168.1.2 and 192.168.1.49. You need to stop the slave router giving out IP addresses to devices, leaving that task in the hands of the primary router.ĭisable DHCP by un-ticking it on the relevant configuration page. Head to the LAN setup page (or similar) and give the router an IP address in the same range as the IP addresses given out by my main router, but outside of the range that is automatically assigned by DHCP.ĭynamic Host Communications Protocol is the process by which a device issues IP addresses to equipment on the network.
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