Can two wireless routers be used from one adsl source?

I have two wireless netgear routers, one is also an adsl modem.
My house is very old and has very thick walls, so wireless coverage is
poor.
Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
modem / router acting as a normal wirless router sending a signal
through the house, and then have the other wirless router somewhere to
pick up the signal and basically act as an access point to give
greater range?



mhalli

mhalli wrote:
> I have two wireless netgear routers, one is also an adsl modem.
> My house is very old and has very thick walls, so wireless coverage is
> poor.
> Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
> modem / router acting as a normal wirless router sending a signal
> through the house, and then have the other wirless router somewhere to
> pick up the signal and basically act as an access point to give
> greater range?

Yes.

Whether your products can do this I don't know.

Owain

On 13 Mar, 13:25, "mhalli" <mark.halli...@virgin.net> wrote:
> I have two wireless netgear routers, one is also an adsl modem.
> My house is very old and has very thick walls, so wireless coverage is
> poor.
> Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
> modem / router acting as a normal wirless router sending a signal
> through the house, and then have the other wirless router somewhere to
> pick up the signal and basically act as an access point to give
> greater range?

Hi Whatt you need is a range extender, which you need to postion
within the exsiting WiFi coverage and it then extends your coverage
using the same SSID and ADSL connection. Here's a Netgear one that
does the trick:
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/95403

MickR

thanks MickR, that would do the trick.
Thing is I've got the two wireless routers (was given one by a friend)
and am interested if I can make one of them perform the same job as
the range extender would.

In an earlier contribution to this discussion,
mhalli <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> thanks MickR, that would do the trick.
> Thing is I've got the two wireless routers (was given one by a friend)
> and am interested if I can make one of them perform the same job as
> the range extender would.

You can probably do it if you have a *wired* link between routers. I don't
think the inter-router link can be wireless.
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"mhalli" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> thanks MickR, that would do the trick.
> Thing is I've got the two wireless routers (was given one by a friend)
> and am interested if I can make one of them perform the same job as
> the range extender would.
>

You would probably get better help if you said what routers you had.

On 13 Mar 2007 06:25:02 -0700, "mhalli" <(E-Mail Removed)>
mused:

>I have two wireless netgear routers, one is also an adsl modem.
>My house is very old and has very thick walls, so wireless coverage is
>poor.
>Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
>modem / router acting as a normal wirless router sending a signal
>through the house, and then have the other wirless router somewhere to
>pick up the signal and basically act as an access point to give
>greater range?

Depends on the model, most recent Netgear wireless equipment can be
used as a bridge AFAIAA (could be wrong though).

If not, then a wired link between the 2 would work. Just make sure you
only have 1 DHCP server active.
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Regards,
Stuart.

On 13 Mar, 19:28, Lurch <use...@sjwelectrical.co.uk> wrote:

> >Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
> Depends on the model, most recent Netgear wireless equipment can be
> used as a bridge AFAIAA (could be wrong though).

not many (if any) Netgear modem-routers support WDS which is what you
need to do what the OP wants. Somewhere buried on the Netgear site is
a doc showing an access point plugged into a wireless modem-router
with a second access point repeating off the first.

Phil

On 13 Mar 2007 12:53:58 -0700, "PhilT" <(E-Mail Removed)> mused:

>On 13 Mar, 19:28, Lurch <use...@sjwelectrical.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> >Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
>> Depends on the model, most recent Netgear wireless equipment can be
>> used as a bridge AFAIAA (could be wrong though).
>
>not many (if any) Netgear modem-routers support WDS which is what you
>need to do what the OP wants. Somewhere buried on the Netgear site is
>a doc showing an access point plugged into a wireless modem-router
>with a second access point repeating off the first.
>
ISTR looking into this a little while back and deciding I could
wirelessly repeat off a DG834G with a Rangemax WAP. I may have read
the manuals incorrectly if that isn't the case.

The OP would do well to go to the www.netgear.co.uk and find the
relevant manuals for his devices and see what they can do.
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Regards,
Stuart.

On 13 Mar, 13:25, "mhalli" <mark.halli...@virgin.net> wrote:
> I have two wireless netgear routers, one is also an adsl modem.
> My house is very old and has very thick walls, so wireless coverage is
> poor.
> Can anyone let me know if a possible solution is to have the adsl
> modem / router acting as a normal wirless router sending a signal
> through the house, and then have the other wirless router somewhere to
> pick up the signal and basically act as an access point to give
> greater range?

have you though about homeplug solution? It just plugs into you
electricity supply and another plug where you want the broadband.