Adding a wireless access point

S

Sachin1804

Active Member
Joined
Jul 22, 2013
Messages
56
Reaction score
0
Hi need some advise please:

I'm using an ADSL DLink 2750U router as my primary router...both wired and wireless. I don't receive good signal from this router in a certain area of my house. Ive purchased a TP-Link TLMR3220 from Incredible which I want to use as a secondary wireless router.

My plan is to run a LAN cable from the primary to the secondary. Then disable the DHCP and change the IP on the secondary to 10.0.0.3.

Now, when configuring the wireless settings on the secondary.....
Do I use the same SSID as the DLink with the same security key?

If the SSIDs are different.....will my devices connect to the one with the stronger signal? I do receive 1bar signal from the Dlink but loose signal completely at times.

Basically I want to use both routers wirelessly without loosing connection around the house. Any advise will be highly appreciated
 
Yes, I've got 3 hotspots around the house with the same SSID and password and my devices hand off between them without a problem
 
Segg said:
Yes, I've got 3 hotspots around the house with the same SSID and password and my devices hand off between them without a problem
Click to expand...

Noob question , please advise how I can do this ?

Same issue I have with 2750u , loses reception in certain are of the house :-(

Option of wireless range extender ?? Or ...
 
-Fanatix- said:
Noob question , please advise how I can do this ?

Same issue I have with 2750u , loses reception in certain are of the house :-(

Option of wireless range extender ?? Or ...
Click to expand...

I hate repeaters with a passion, imo just bite the bullet and lay some cable, with my setup my ADSL router is 10.0.0.1 and is the DHCP server
Router 1 is 10.0.0.2
Router 2 is 10.0.0.3
Router 3 is 10.0.0.4

DHCP is disabled on all routers

The ADSL router is set to start assigning IP's after 10.0.0.15 as I have static IP devices with their places reserved on the routers DHCP table from 10.0.0.5 to 10.0.0.12

The wireless routers don't have their addresses assigned, I changed their individual IP addresses to be fixed
 
Segg said:
Yes, I've got 3 hotspots around the house with the same SSID and password and my devices hand off between them without a problem
Click to expand...
Works for me as well with 2 hotspots, got my best results by manually setting the channels with little or no overlap on the android WiFi Analyser app (currently using 4 & 10).
 
MickZA said:
Works for me as well with 2 hotspots, got my best results by manually setting the channels with little or no overlap on the android WiFi Analyser app (currently using 4 & 10).
Click to expand...

+1

My routers span from channel 1 through 13 among the three and have very good throughput with them all
 
YingYang said:
Yip, should work 100%
Click to expand...

Should be the operative word.

Had to create two separate SSID's at our office because the Macs wouldn't receive IPs when switching. May be down to specific hardware or just the Macs which are known to have weird wifi issues.
 
Thanks for the tip on the channels MickZA. I use inSSIDer to optimise. I will give WiFi Analyser a try
 
One more Q..... Which port would I plug my network cable into... LAN or WAN on the secondary router?
 
LAN = Local Area Network
WAN = Wide Area Network

So attach it to LAN
 
Thanks for the input. The TP Link has the following settings 3G/4G only, 3G/4G Preferred, WAN preferred and WAN only. Should I ignore these settings
 
If you are using 3G failover then use WAN preferred
 
Then leave it blank or at its default setting
 
Default is 3G/4G..... I'll give it a shot when I get home. Thanks. I might have messed up the installation by selecting WAN and plugging into the WAN port. I then couldn't change the router IP to match the primary which is on the 10 range. Although I have net access.... I was still being assigned an IP of 192. The router refused me to change the LAN ip as it was conflicting with the WAN ip. Makes sense now.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X