With Zen EveryRoom you will experience more reliable WiFi that adapts to your needs, providing the strongest signal whatever room you're in allowing you to roam without experiencing dropped connections. Read our story. Select your address. Help me choose Let me choose Close. Why would you want to use more than one router? What are the benefits of using multiple routers?
What are the disadvantages? Check broadband speeds for your home. Invalid postcode. Elizabeth Smith has been a scientific and engineering writer since Her work has appeared in numerous journals, newspapers and corporate publications. A frequent traveler, she also has penned articles as a travel writer.
Home Network. Purpose of Multiple Routers For people who live or work in a building that has significant wireless interference or is too big to allow the signal to reach everywhere, multiple routers can increase wireless access. Hardware Limitations The number of routers you can hook up to a cable modem is, to some extent, limited by the modem itself.
I'm running traceroute on my Linux machine, but how do I know for sure that a given IP address in the output is global and not internal? I guess that all the internal addresses I've seen fall in the 10 A block, but I don't suppose that external addresses about using that block. Private addresses fall in the following ranges, anything outside of that will be a public address So anything in the private range will never be a public IP address? Private addresses are not accessible from the internet, only from your local area network, unless you enable port forwarding from your router.
Tracing route to superuser. Daniel B Daniel B Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. Sign up using Email and Password. Post as a guest Name. Email Required, but never shown. The Overflow Blog. Does ES6 make JavaScript frameworks obsolete? Part 4. Place your routers. Now that everything is configured, you can place your routers wherever you need. Remember, you'll want to use an Ethernet cable that's no longer than feet to connect the routers together unless your routers support WDS.
If you're using a compatible Wi-Fi router that supports wireless bridging, minimize physical obstructions, such as brick walls and metal frames or siding for best results. One end of the Ethernet cable should be connected to the primary router's Internet or WAN port, and the other end into the modem or wall jack.
You can run Ethernet cable through the wall if you need to reach another room. Connect the two routers together. Plug one end of the Ethernet cable to one of your primary router's LAN Ethernet ports, and the other into to any available LAN port on secondary router.
Restart both routers once connected. You can do this by unplugging each router's power cable and plugging it back in a few seconds later. After a minute or so, the routers will come back up.
Both will now be accessible and connected to the internet. If you need to connect to the secondary router's admin website, you can do so by entering its new IP address into your web browser's address bar. The previous IP address will now only work for the primary router.
Not Helpful 13 Helpful Can computers see each other while they are on different routers? For example, a PC on one router sees the computers or printers on the other router? Not Helpful 38 Helpful What if the modem houses the primary router and there are two different bands 2. That the modem houses the primary router makes no difference to the instructions given in the article, and the 5GHz band s do not overlap with the 2.
Not Helpful 9 Helpful You can disable WiFi on your main router and enable it only on your second router. Not Helpful 23 Helpful OpenVPN is probably the answer to either question, though.
If you're looking to connect to a commercial VPN service to gain anonymity, then the service provider will have to answer your question.
If you intend to set up a server so you can remotely access your main computer, OpenVPN will do anything you need -- it's free and a fully-featured, enterprise-grade solution. To set it up, you'll need to open port UDP on your router and point it at your server. Not Helpful 10 Helpful My secondary router for wireless repeating asks for a base station MAC address, can anyone assist? You need to make sure your computer is directly connected to the base station, not one of the satellites and access the base stations config page at It will be in hexadecimal numbers 0-f and will look something like this: xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx.
Not Helpful 15 Helpful Use a mobile device to check for congestion on whichever channel you have it set to article recommends channel Another distinct possibility is bug-ridden firmware on your router. To remedy that, check for updated firmware from the manufacturer's website.
Upload the latest firmware available onto your router, even if it's the same version already on there. Not Helpful 7 Helpful You need two modems, as well as two routers.
And you will most likely have to pay for all of them. Not Helpful 24 Helpful If I go to a hotel with wi-fi, can I install my own router off their wi-fi to get added security? How would I do that? It's a complicated task but yes it can be done. All you have to do is login to your router's configuration pages and connect your Router to their WiFi network. Assuming you have your VPN connection pre-configured your router will automatically tunnel all your network traffic via your VPN Server.
Your devices may be required to connect via wired medium to your router. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 5. I am also supposed to enter a Gateway address there.
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