Connecting Wireless Routers

[martinco]

Can somebody help.?

I have difficulty in connecting my Routers.

Firstly I have my ADSL router connected ( wired ) to my first AP wireless router and from there I string the wireless routers further into the house . All routers are Canyon N series. I want to setup a WAN and to do this I have put the ISP info into the first AP wireless router and connected the RJ 45 to the WAN port on the AP router.?

My question : In order to "string " the routers further into the house I have to enter a new SSID and AP router SSID into each of the following routers and set these to "repeater" mode. Does this mean that router 4 will try to connect direct to AP router or will it connect through router 3 ? And if not......how do I get it to connect through router 3 ?
I find that the signal gets progressively weaker as I connect to routers along the line up to where router 4 will not connect to the WAN.
Also on the PC...........do I put the Gateway as that of the AP router ? And what DNS ?

I hope I have explained this correctly !

 

[the1lumpster]

I havent worked on the canyon routers before but it should just be a matter of Bridging the AP's (check if your router has this) and u enter in the the details one router at a time. you might need the MAC address of the routers for bridging.
Bridging basically just repeats the signal of the first router and routes all traffic for AP 2,3,4 to its specified default gateway. Best is to have it on DHCP config to avoid ip issues but set the lease pool from x.x.x.10 up and have all AP's bellow x.x.x.10... dunno if that helps but iv never had a signal problem when bridging routers and iv setup one zone with 11 AP's all bridging

 

[martinco]

Yes all have "Bridging. Do I understand correctly ? On router 2, I put the AP SSID as that of router 1, and on router 3 I put the AP SSID as that of router 2. etc, OR does the AP SSID remain that of router 1 ? Also if I use DCHP on the PC there is no possibility to enter a gateway address, or will this automatically sort itself out ?