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Connect the Lan Ports on the two routers with a cable, turn off DHCP on the 2nd router. Set up Wifi on your 2nd router.
The key point is do not use the WAN port on your 2nd router.
Have you tried this? I strongly suspect it will work & save landfill. If it hasn’t worked then it’s either faulty or user error so yes it’s either try again, access point or powerline adapter time.
By the way you are not creating a new network with access points but a new ssid, all the devices will be on the same network just different entry points & ssid/password.
Tried the settings as per the suggestions…it worked for about 2 minutes.
What did you try?
If it worked for a couple of minutes then it might be a dhcp issue.
This is my setup in the barn:
Old Netgear DG834G set up with a static IP address and DHCP server switched off
Cat 5 runs from one of the LAN ports
Other end connected to a LAN port on the Sonicwall in my office (which is the router as we're now FTTP)
I think this should work for you:
On Router 2:
Switch off the DHCP server and give it a static IP address outside the DHCP range that's set on your router 1.
Connect it to router 1 at the LAN ports at both ends.
Give it a different SSID and password
On your PC/Laptop:
Get the IP address by DHCP (which will come from router 1)
If that doesn't work then you can try giving it a static IP address, again outside the DHCP range on router 1, and set the gateway to be the IP address you gave to router 2.
I think this will work - will try it later. I'm with Vodafone and have a couple of routers.
Set up first one as normal (DSL cable to telephone socket).
WAN socket on second router is connected to LAN port on first. Leave DHCP etc alone.
You've effectively got two entirely segregated networks. There will be double-NATing on the second network but nothing seems to be particularly worried about that these days. You can't access anything on the primary network via the secondary, or vice-versa. Pro or con, depending on how you look at it.
WAN socket on second router is connected to LAN port on first. Leave DHCP etc alone.
You’ve effectively got two entirely segregated networks
But thats overcomplicating things. He doesn't want a separate network, just wants a seperate wifi access.
It's much easier LAN port - LAN port to keep everything within a single network.
– This will definitely enable me to have a separate wifi network rather than simply extend my home wifi?
It will be the same underlying network with a different name. So you'll connect to "Network B" rather than "Network A" but there won't be any segregation between devices, you'll still see network printers or storage or what have you. If you switch off the AP then "Network B" disappears, so if your laptop only has the password for Network B then you'll be offline when the AP is shut down.
Which is what you want, I think?
Update: Thanks to all of you very helpful people, it does seem to be working... I'm going to try it a bit more and see how stable it is...but good so far. Woot. £4 well spent.
So...just to close this off. The vodafone router worked after a fashion, but was pretty flakey. I looked around for an access point. But for 802.11ac they seemed pretty expensive. So in the end, I ordered another cheapy talktalk router. Plug in. Switch on. Works.
Moral of the story... if it works. Copy it.
