Expand the Range of your Wireless Network

The wifi variety provided by your wireless router will differ based on which Wi-Fi conventional it can handle – is it 802.11g or 802.11n compatible? – and whether there are any surfaces around as that will prevent the Wi-Fi indication.

The 802.11n wireless routers, also known as Wireless N wireless routers, generally have an improved Wi-Fi variety but even if you get one of these, the wifi indicators may still not arrive at certain places of the house – like the part research or the room on the first ground – as there are just too many objects in the way by means of surfaces between your computer and the wireless router.

Expand your Wireless Network’s

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You can quickly increase your Wi-Fi system with some extra components – like Wi-Fi repeaters and Wifi Accessibility Details – but if you want to preserve a few dollars, just get carry of an old wireless wireless router that you no more use and be connected it to your established wireless router using an affordable Ethernet wire.

Our building is around 100 toes by 200 toes with a lot of surfaces (see the above illustration) and yet there can be wifi Also available in almost every part of the house.

The installation is incredibly simple. All I have is a major Wireless-N wireless router attached to the ISP offer device. Then unique second wifi wireless router (Wireless-G) that is attached to the major wireless router over an Ethernet or Cat-5 wire.

Use a Second Router as an Access Point

Let’s call our routers OBAMA (the router that you are already using with your wireless home network) and PALIN (the second router that you want to add to increase your wireless range).

A: Note the Settings of the Main Router

Step 1: First we need to determine the IP address of OBAMA (our existing router). Copy-paste the following command in the Windows Run box and note the value of “Default Gateway.” That your router’s IP address.

cmd /k ipconfig

Let’s assume the router’s IP address is 192.168.30.1. Also make note of the Subnet Mask value which is usually 255.255.255.0.

Step 2: Open your web browser and type the router’s IP address, that you determined earlier, into the address bar. If you are using IE, you might want to add http:// to the address else IE may throw an error.

You’ll now have to provide a password for accessing the router settings. This will vary depending on your router’s manufacturer – just Google for “<brand name> default router password” or try the standard combinations like admin/admin, admin/password and admin/<blank> (no password).

Step 3: Once you are in the settings of OBAMA router, switch to wireless settings and make a note of the Wireless mode, the SSID and the channel.

If you have protected your Wi-Fi with a password, also note down the security mode used (WPA, WEP or WPA2) and your secret passphrase.

B: Configure the Second Router

Step 4: Next we need to configure PALIN, our second router.

First reset the router PALIN to factory defaults by hard-pressing the reset button for about 10 seconds. Now  connect PALIN to your computer using the Ethernet cable. Put one end of the cable in any of the LAN ports available on the router and the other end to your computer’s Ethernet port. Make sure the router is powered on.

Step 5: Open the browser and type 192.168.1.1 – the default internet IP address of your PALIN router. If you are not using a Linksys router, try 192.168.0.1 which is the default for Netgear and D-Link routers.

Once you are in, you need to change the values of the default SSID, Wireless mode, the channel, the security mode and the passphrase such that they match with your OBAMA router.

Then go to Setup –> Advanced routing and change the current mode from Gateway to Router. Next disable DHCP Server since our primary OBAMA router will handle the task of assigning IP addresses to devices connecting to the wireless network.

Finally, change the IP address of the PALIN router to any free address in your LAN. For instance, if the IP address of OBAMA router is 192.168.30.1, you can safely assign 192.168.30.2 to PALIN. Also make sure that the Subnet mask is the same as determined in Step 1. Save settings.

C: Connect the Two Routers

Now that we have configured the routers, it’s time to connect them with wires.

Your existing OBAMA Router probably has five (1+4) ports – the WAN port here (or the Internet port) should be connected to the ISP provide modem as before. Pick any of the available LAN ports on the router and connect it to any of the LAN ports on the PALIN router using an Ethernet cable. That’s it.

Now that everything is installation, you can be attached your computer and cellular phones to the second wifi router using either a sent relationship (the three slots are still free) or over Wi-Fi.

Since we have designated the same SSID and security configurations to the second wifi router, you do not have to manage anything on your laptop computer as you move around the house*. Also, as we are just broadening the arrive at of an established wifi system and not developing a new one, all your distributed information, music your local library, photographs, and other information will be available from all computer systems and cellular phones that are attached to the home system.

[*] You may also divided your established wifi system by linking a wifi router. This method will make an additional wifi system and the two will not be able to see or discuss to each other.