Wireless to Wireless?

cake126

Hey folks,

I had problems picking up wireless in the upstairs of my house so I bought what I thought was a better router. Turns out it's pretty much the same. I had an Apple Airport Extreme and the new one is a Trendnet Wireless N router.

I can pick either up on their own but my question is, is there a way to combine the 2 so that one extends the network of the other?

Cheers

Karoma

Check the manuals for "bridging mode"

cake126

That's what bridging is? Super news. Thank you.

charlesD

I am not familiar with the routers you mentioned as I usually use Linksys routers, but it sounds like you want to be able to connect the routers together wirelessly, so I am not sure that Bridging will work in this situation.

To connect two routers together wirelessly, you would typically need a special type of device called a wireless repeater, or something like. These devices don't work that well, but for a home would probably be fine. Most standard routers don't include this feature.

If you can connect them together with an Ethernet cord, then bridging would be what you were looking for. Typically, you will set one router as a 'router' and another to a 'bridge.' The 'router' would be the one plugged into the internet and the bridge would be the secondary one.

macrubicon

WDS might be another way to go if you have kit from 2 different manufacturers...

Some_Person

Bridge mode will only work if both routers support WDS.
Another way to move broadband around the house is to use homeplugs.

dub45

The airport extreme uses wds so might be worth checking the specs of the Trendnet.

Has the computer you are using got an 'N' card otherwise the benefits of the 'n' are lost.