Full Speed
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Just got a new house and the only place Bell could install their wi-fi router was in the corner room in the basement without doing a big tear up or having me rent an extra TV box in a room I didn't need it. So on the top floor in rooms on the opposite side of the house the signal was pretty slow and weak.
I had a dlink wireless N router in storage that I wasn't using and there is an ethernet jack ran from the basement to the bedroom. The bell router is set to 192.168.2.1, so I manually set the dlink to run with the same SSID, password, and wireless channel. I changed the dlink to 192.168.2.2, disabled its DHCP, and connected it to the bell router using a LAN port.
Things seem to be fine and I'm getting 5 bars all over the house now, but I'm just wondering if this setup could cause any problems in the future. Is there a better way I should have set this up?
I had a dlink wireless N router in storage that I wasn't using and there is an ethernet jack ran from the basement to the bedroom. The bell router is set to 192.168.2.1, so I manually set the dlink to run with the same SSID, password, and wireless channel. I changed the dlink to 192.168.2.2, disabled its DHCP, and connected it to the bell router using a LAN port.
Things seem to be fine and I'm getting 5 bars all over the house now, but I'm just wondering if this setup could cause any problems in the future. Is there a better way I should have set this up?