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have you ever been in a situation where your wi-fi doesn't reach far enough and

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you can't run a cable you could buy a repeater or another mesh node but those

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things cost money

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fortunately you actually might be in luck if you or a friend has an old

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router lying around like this one this is actually a new router but many

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modern wireless routers even cheaper ones have a feature called wireless

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distribution system or wds this

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essentially allows you to disable the features you're not using and deploy the

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router as a repeater with the added advantage of giving you access to the

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wired Ethernet ports on the back

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those babies you can think of it kind of like running an Ethernet cable but

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wirelessly so how do you set it up although there's usually a simple on off

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option for wds in your router settings it's wise to do a little bit of

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configuration work as well in order to ensure it works properly start by

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manually setting both your main wireless network and the secondary router to the

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same channel so they can communicate to keep the connection stable you'll want

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to give your secondary router a static internal ip address but how do you do

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that well on a home network every connected

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device is assigned a private ip address that typically starts with 192.168.

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this system ensures any incoming data is sent to the correct device usually your

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router assigns these addresses automatically through a system called dhcp but for wds you'll want to give

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your secondary router one ip address it hangs onto permanently instead of having

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your main router automatically give it a new one periodically which can cause

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connection problems log into your main router and find the place in the

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settings that will show you a list of all the connected clients then go back

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to your secondary router and give it an ip address in the lan settings that

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isn't currently being used by any of those devices make sure you start it

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with 192.168.0 or one depending on which one

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your network uses and using a fourth number that's between 1 and 255. you can

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also set the second router's static ip within the first router's dhcp settings

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by finding the second router's Mac Address and putting it in there after

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you do this go ahead and turn on wds you'll get a prompt asking which

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wireless network you want to connect to so pick the right one and punch in the

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password make sure by the way that you turn off the dhcp feature on the

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secondary router your primary router will handle assigning internal ip

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addresses and having two devices on the same network handling dhcp functions oh

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that can cause some pretty bizarre problems get flashbacks from here you're

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all set to use your secondary router if you're trying to connect a wired device

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just plug in the Ethernet cable to one of the lan ports not the wan port the

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lan ports if you're trying to connect wirelessly instead punch in the

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credentials that your secondary router is using to connect directly to it

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although you can also give your secondary router the same login information as the primary one to have

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your wi-fi devices switch automatically between them

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but wait there's a big caveat with using wds because wi-fi is a half duplex

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protocol that can't send and receive at the same time wds tends to be slower

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than using a single router in fact if you're connected to the

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secondary router wirelessly your speeds will be roughly cut in half

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also keep in mind that you may not want to assign both routers the same login

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information as client devices tend to hang on to the first access point they

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can connect to for dear life so your phone for example may not switch back to

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the primary router the way you would like to once it's in range but while wds

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isn't perfect it's a great way to repurpose an old router if you don't

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need the highest possible speeds and can be a lifesaver if you have a wired only

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device you really need to use unless you don't mind tripping over the 100 foot

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