I have a long, skinny house. It’s so long that one wireless access point doesn’t quite reach from one end to the other. It doesn’t help that all my neighbors have their own in one great storm of EM radiation.
So, I have to have two wireless routers. The problem is that most consumer routers are set up by default to assume they’re the only one on your network and that they are the ones connecting to your ISP. After much struggling, I found some directions on how to add a second wireless access point to your network.
The one thing that I have to add is if you have a switch or hub between your two wireless routers (as I do) then you need to make sure your “Internet side” router is connected to your switch with a cross-over cable to the “uplink” port and your other router is connected to your switch with a normal cable to a normal port.
