Simplest way to link 2 Routers Wirelessly??


  1. zapp22
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    Simplest way to link 2 Routers Wirelessly??


    friends I'm having to write this because my old bridged network worked so well for so long that I totally forgot how I ever set it up in the first place, but I recall that it was simple and involved:
    - the two were connected via wifi - the primary one having a physical connection to roadrunner modem
    - the two had the same SSID, same Security method and passkey, different base IP addresses [192.168.1.1, and 192.168.1.21]
    - beyond that it gets hazy... what "mode" was the secondary in? somewhere I input to the subordinate router the MAC address of the primary router... dunno where/which field accepted that
    - do both need to be set to a fixed & same channel, as opposed to variable/Auto?
    - what all was turned off on the secondary?
    - both had full use of both their wired connections/clients and wifi
    - one of these is N-300mbps, and g/b, the other is g/b. do I need to limit anything?

    its not necessarily important to me that the connected devices all share with one another - I have strange clients anyway and its not needed. the windows 7 devices will be ok on the homegroup.

    can someone help me out?
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  3. 2xg
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    Hello,

    I have answered your other Thread here, please read it first before you decide to do wireless bridging.

    I can give you some Tutorials links on How to setup a wireless bridge and another option is connect your second router to the existing one, here's an article for this.

    Hope this helps.
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  4. zapp22
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    thank you 2xG! much obliged
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