Connect I pad by wifi

[paulf-2007]

Thought this would be as good a place as any with peeps streaming from the Internet. I have a garden listening room with Ethernet cable connected to the house. Wifi will not reach my room and would like to connect my iPad and I phone to wifi. Is it as easy as connecting a router to this Ethernet cable that is connected to the router in the house, or will this create a problem.

[eatapeach]

you will probably have to set the old (or new) router to access point or repeater mode.

[paulf-2007]

you will probably have to set the old (or new) router to access point or repeater mode.

I'll bear that in mind thanks

[Stratmangler]

You need to turn DHCP off on the second router - if you don't you'll have have two bits of kit trying to allocate IP addresses, and there will be conflicts, which in turn will cause things to misbehave.

[dave2010]

You need to turn DHCP off on the second router - if you don't you'll have have two bits of kit trying to allocate IP addresses, and there will be conflicts, which in turn will cause things to misbehave.

You probably only need a wireless access point, if you are intending to buy a new one. a router might well be overkill, and lead to additional problems. If you did use a router, and connected that to a wired network, you might discover that you’d get unwanted loops, thought this hazard depends on the devices and their configuration.

Although you can probably use the same SSID and channel numbers, you might find it easier to have a different SSID. If you use the same SSID, it’s almost certainly a good idea to use a different channel number.

You might also want to use different wireless security methods for the additional point. I did that once to allow an older device to connect, thought these days that shouldn’t be necessary.

These days most mobile devices will roam quite easily between different access points, even if you do use different SSIDs and wireless channels.

Good luck with this.

[eatapeach]

You probably only need a wireless access point, if you are intending to buy a new one. a router might well be overkill, and lead to additional problems. If you did use a router, and connected that to a wired network, you might discover that you’d get unwanted loops, thought this hazard depends on the devices and their configuration.

Although you can probably use the same SSID and channel numbers, you might find it easier to have a different SSID. If you use the same SSID, it’s almost certainly a good idea to use a different channel number.

You might also want to use different wireless security methods for the additional point. I did that once to allow an older device to connect, thought these days that shouldn’t be necessary.

These days most mobile devices will roam quite easily between different access points, even if you do use different SSIDs and wireless channels.

Good luck with this.

yes - like I said- set a second router to access point mode. Although we don't know if the OP already has a spare router. If not - buy something like this - far simpler....

https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-LINK-TL-...mputers&sr=1-2


Or this which doesn't even need ethernet

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powerline-A...c=1&th=1&psc=1

[Stratmangler]

You probably only need a wireless access point, if you are intending to buy a new one. a router might well be overkill, and lead to additional problems. If you did use a router, and connected that to a wired network, you might discover that you’d get unwanted loops, thought this hazard depends on the devices and their configuration.

Although you can probably use the same SSID and channel numbers, you might find it easier to have a different SSID. If you use the same SSID, it’s almost certainly a good idea to use a different channel number.

You might also want to use different wireless security methods for the additional point. I did that once to allow an older device to connect, thought these days that shouldn’t be necessary.

These days most mobile devices will roam quite easily between different access points, even if you do use different SSIDs and wireless channels.

Good luck with this.

There's no point in telling me.
I'm not looking to try and get 2 routers working together on the same network.

I wouldn't be asking for help on a HiFi forum either

[paulf-2007]

You probably only need a wireless access point, if you are intending to buy a new one. a router might well be overkill, and lead to additional problems. If you did use a router, and connected that to a wired network, you might discover that you’d get unwanted loops, thought this hazard depends on the devices and their configuration.

Although you can probably use the same SSID and channel numbers, you might find it easier to have a different SSID. If you use the same SSID, it’s almost certainly a good idea to use a different channel number.

You might also want to use different wireless security methods for the additional point. I did that once to allow an older device to connect, thought these days that shouldn’t be necessary.

These days most mobile devices will roam quite easily between different access points, even if you do use different SSIDs and wireless channels.

Good luck with this.

my I phone and I pad automatically connect to every wifi router that I've signed in to so when I get the wifi access point it should be simple to sign in to it once job done.

[eatapeach]

let me be the thirteenth person to say the same thing as everyone else but in a slightly different way....

[Stratmangler]

let me be the thirteenth person to say the same thing as everyone else but in a slightly different way....

None of the routers I've had over the years have had a repeater mode