Can I use a second wireless access point to extend my wireless network?

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Hi!
There actually are special access points that do this by talking to each other on a different frequency, thus creating a kind of wireless "backbone" between the access points. But those are professional, and more expensive than the SOHO type.
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Anton

I have the exact setup as in the top diagram: two groups of computers each connected to a router, the routers wired together, one router connected to cable modem/internet. My problem is that the computers on the router NOT connected to the internet drop their internet connection constantly... on 10 mins. off 2, etc., regardless of whether the other group is being used or are even turned on. I have a 50 foot ethernet cable just plugged into a port on each router, do I need some sort of signal boost or ???

50ft seems fine. I have longer here at home. I'd make sure it's the "uplink" port on the second router that's being connected to the first, and that you have DHCP turned off on that one. Basically it needs to act as a fairly simple hub or switch only.

Thanks, but I cannot find any mention of an "uplink" port in the router literature, only have WAN and ports 1-4, and is turning the DHCP off the same as turning it off on the computers? (One is a PC one is a Mac)

Also both routers have wireless capability too if that could contribute, although we did try a hardwire only router for number 2 and no difference.

The WAN port is the uplink port. (Same beast, different name.) Turning DHCP off means turning it off on the (2nd) router - routers provide DHCP, and you only want one of the two routers providing it ... the one connected to the internet.

On the second diagram, couldn't you just use a bridge instead of the access point on the one that is connected to the ethernet?

I don't see how a bridge helps this situation.

I've got two wireless routers hooked up with a 50 ft. ethernet cable. The first router has one of it's LAN ports hooked up to the second one's WAN port, and the first one's WAN port is hooked up to a modem. The second one has DHCP disabled, and wireless enabled. My wireless computers seem to refuse to grab an IP address from either router, although either router hands out IP addresses just fine over ethernet.

Any ideas? If it helps, router 1 is a D-Link DI-624 at 192.168.2.1 (assigning between 192.168.2.3 and 192.168.2.99) and router 2 is a Microsoft MN-500 at 192.168.2.2, although it seems to like taking an IP dynamically from the first router.

I am trying to do the second diagram with a MS MN-500 as the remote WAP. In the documentation it says this is possible "Adding to existing wireless networks" and that to put it into bridging mode. I haven't been able to get it to work though.

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