Although we’re going to be using Tomato-powered routers, you can use just about any stock Wi-Fi router around without flashing the firmware. That’s all you need! You don’t even, technically, need any fancy after market firmware like Tomato or DD-WRT. One physical port on the primary router and one direct Ethernet cable link for each secondary router.What You’ll Needįor this tutorial you need the following things: The technique we’re about to outline simply adds Wi-Fi access points to any open Ethernet connection on your hard-wired LAN-no fancy configuration or Wi-Fi Voodoo required. While that’s a great solution if you don’t have any hard wire to connect them, it does have its short comings as it requires a lot of configuration and a Wi-Fi mesh protocol that can introduce latency and reduced bandwidth.
#Extend wireless signal how to
What specifically do you gain by using this technique over the previous technique? In our prior tutorial we showed you how to make a mesh of Wi-Fi routers.
When you have a hardwired network, however, things get radically easier as you can use the Ethernet as a backbone for the network and convert the secondary routers to simple access points that require little effort to configure and deploy. In a situation with no Ethernet network, you have to rely completely on wireless technology to link the access points together (as we did when we used WDS to link the two Tomato routers together last week). Since he has an existing hardwired Ethernet LAN, however, he’s in luck. If Bill didn’t have the existing LAN in place, we’d have to tell him to try a different firmware (like DD-WRT) that allows for true Wi-Fi repeating.
What can I do? All my routers are running current releases of TomatoUSB. Is there a more bare-bones way to go about this technique than setting up the Tomato routers via WDS as you have us do in the tutorial? My house is wired with Ethernet but, alas, very few of my devices actually use hard wire anymore. Everything worked as promised, but I’ve noticed the secondary router seems a little flaky. I read and followed your guide last Tuesday. Bill wrote in with the following question which echoes quite a few similar emails: Last week we showed you how to extend your network without wires, this week we’re looking at how you can use use an existing hardwire network to easily and quickly extend your wireless network using simple access points.Īfter we published our guide How To Extend Your Wireless network with Tomato-Powered Routers, we received a variety of reader questions regarding other tips and tricks one could use to extend a wireless network.
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