How can I set up a second router in my home to increase the wireless range?

We have one router at the top of the house, but it has four floors, and it's not possible to get a wireless signal. My friend gave me a second router (a decent netgear one) and I want to set it up on the second bottom floor so that it is possible to access the internet anywhere within the house. Any help on this is much appreciated, thank you in advance.How can I set up a second router in my home to increase the wireless range?
Don't set it up as a new wireless source it will keep you from being able to do any file sharing with your computers connecting upstairs.



First plug an ethernet cable straight from your computer to the new netgear routers LAN 1 port. Plug up power to the netgear. Next. Open up Internet Explorer and at the top of your screen in the URL box and type in 192.168.0.1 click go or enter.



Username = admin / Password = password



Next click on LAN IP setup. Then Uncheck use router as DHCP checkmark box. Here is a screenshot...

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This will make your new wireless router act as a wireless switch and your main router upstairs will be your only router. Now plug up an ethernet line from your router upstairs to your new router in it's LAN2 port and you will be good to go. You may have to unplug the new router then plug it back in for the main router to see it properly.



Good Luck HTH.How can I set up a second router in my home to increase the wireless range?
I would set up wireless repeaters instad of routers... for the simple reason each router would then need it's own IP addressing and network ID...



if you had a machine downstairs on that router, it would be networked differetly than the machines on the upstairs router. the problem with this owuld be if you ever moved from one area to another, the machines would ahve to doisconnect and reconnect, rather than just hopping from one repeater to another...
Connect the second router's uplink port to the first router's Lan port using ethernet cables. Then setup second router's wifi with different SSID %26amp; channel.

Option 1: you could get a booster or bridge and use it without connecting ethernet cables.

Option 2: You could get high powered USB wifi card from amazon.com and use that wifi adaptor to access the first router.