Step by step process to use old WiFi router as repeater / extender.

For Wi-Fi, one of the most annoying things is having a wrong signal because then the connection drops out, or it’s so slow that it’s unusable. So we have a simple solution that I’m going to show you. one thing to keep in mind is how this will work is it will create a separate wireless access point that you’ll connect to you separately from the original access point. 

Basically, if you move to the part of the house that does have a feeble signal from your regular router, you’ll have to separately connect to the extended one to get the better signal it’s not like a so-called mesh network where your phone or device will automatically switch between access points that will take a particular type of router a mesh router that you’ll probably have to buy separately. But this is still a better option if you don’t have any connection and one side of the house you’ll at least be able to switch to it pretty quickly yourself when you do want that better connection, so that show it’s gonna work now you’re gonna have two main options for how you want to approach this you can either set your router as a wireless repeater if that feature is available in your router, which means it’s going to be all wireless.

Your new access point extender will need to get the wireless signal from the original one. Then it will relay that to whatever else is connected to the extender. The other approach, which is ideal, is to use it as a wired extender, in which case you run an actual physical hardwired Ethernet cable from your primary router to the extender router. Then it will broadcast as an access point from there. The reason this is ideal is pretty apparent, I would think, is you’re getting a hardwired full connection speed to the extender router. Then it’s broadcasting at the full bandwidth to connect to the rest of the network. In contrast, if you’re using the repeater, then there are two steps where there could be potential signal loss from the main router to the extent there’s some signal loss and then also to the device to the extender.

There’s also going to be some loss, so you also have to keep in mind if you’re going to be doing a repeater where you place the repeater because if you put it on the other side of the house where you’re already getting a weak signal, it’s gonna have to try and amplify a much weaker signal.

If you put it in the middle of the house where you have a 50% signal from the main router well, it’ll extend it and if you login to (https://routerlogin.app/wireless-pan-dhcp-server/) you will have a better connection. You’ll probably get maybe enough to reach the opposite end of the house, but you can’t just put them super far away. If it’s a repeater, it still has to be within enough range to get a decent signal from the main one.

Step 1:

To start with, you should have a primary router and a secondary router. For example, we would use a router by BSNL and tender this one came with the BSNL broadband. You need to use your old router extend to increase your-Fi range.

Step 2:

In the next step, you would have to factory reset your old router reset this router by. You can do this by pressing the reset button. The process of  factory reset has been completed here.

Step 3:

You have to connect the secondary router via the LAN cable to your laptop, and please don’t connect it via the Wi-Fi because we will be changing this router’s IP address4.

Step 4:

After that, open up your favorite web browser and type in one ninety-two dot one sixty-eight dot one (the model number of your router) and go to the login page and by default, the username and password will be admin and admin if you don’t know your username and password, do Google it.

Step 5:

After that, you have to set up an interface set up in that LAN, so take the DHCP (router) server, and you need to disable this. You need to change the router IP address to one ninety-two dot one sixty-eight dot. I think I will change it to seven and click on save, so after that, as you can see here, my router’s IP address has been changed to one ninety-two dot one sixty-eight dot one dot seven and type in your username and password once again.

Step 6:

You need to configure your Wi-Fi, so go into a wireless setup, and here you need to activate the access point. Do set up the channel to seven, give the same SSID as primary author has, and set the authentication as wpa2 PSK and the same encryption type, and give the same password. 

Step 7:

After that, click on save, so what will happen is by providing the same SSID and password, your device will automatically select the strongest network available in your area. By this way, this LAN has been setup. The cable which will go all the way to another room will be keeping as the secondary router. It’s showing only one SSID as we have merged the two routers to use as a single router and if we go into the Wi-Fi analyzer app, you can see here are our two routers. 

Step 8:

Router number one, which is the primary router, is placed in the one room, and router number two, a secondary router, is set in another room. If the user moves between rooms, he will be connected automatically to the nearby router, because we have been given the same SSID and password.

Hope it helps. If you are work from home professional, then this setting will help you to be much more productive and efficient. Also make sure to get the best Internet Service Provider (ISP) of your area.