hello everybody today I'm going to be
showing you how to connect two routers
together using a network cable and
basically what it's going to do is take
your home router or any router you want
and extend that router by adding a
second basic router so I'm going to be
using in that gear as my home router and
the tp-link wr8 4:1 n as the actual
extension and what this will do is
actually connect the two routers
together with a LAN cable or network
cable and allow me to share the internet
from router 1 to router 2 and I will
also show you how to configure the
wireless interfaces on interface on the
second router to not interfere with the
why there's wireless interface on the
first router so let's get at it
here's a diagram of a networks going to
look like or what my networks going to
look like here and the main router is
the net gear over here it's basically
the home router and it's connected to
the Internet through a cable modem
internet modem and it's a Wi-Fi router
and we're going to connect it but using
a LAN cable like this to another router
which is the tp-link wr8 for one and
that'll be the secondary router but just
so you know this could be any two
routers you want to put together ok so
it doesn't have to be a neck here and it
doesn't have to be a tp-link WRA 41 n it
could just be any two routers as long as
you go and set them up the way I tell
you to set them up you should be falling
now first thing you need to find out in
this configuration or is what the main
routers IP address is and that's
something we can do inside Windows so
let's minimize this out of the way here
and if you're connected to the router
you'll have a network out if you're
connected to the main router you have a
network icon down here and it will be
either a Wi-Fi symbol or a LAN cable
depending on what you got connected what
we're going to do is right click that
and go to open network and sharing
Center once that's open we're going to
go to change adapter settings and here
you'll see well I got three connections
you may have
amount but one of them is the ethernet
and the other one is Wi-Fi while I'm
connected to the router through Wi-Fi so
we're going to deal with that connection
if you're connected three through net
then there won't be a red X there and
basically all you need to do is exactly
the same thing I'm going to do it with
Wi-Fi just on that connection so let's
go to the Wi-Fi right click it
choose status and this gives you your
status of your connection but what we
want to go to is details here and in the
details you'll see all your IP
information and the important part here
is the ipv4 default gateway DHCP server
and DNS server you'll notice here on
mine that they're all the same number
that's because the router is taking care
of those functions and that's how you
know what the routers IP address is in
my case it's 192 168 dot one dot one so
if yours is different like say
192.168.0.1 or anything else just write
it down and I'll show I'll tell you how
to deal with it or handle it in a second
but in my case it's one dot one so
192.168 that one that one so let's close
that up and now that we have the IP
address of the main router we can move
on to the next thing that we need to do
and the next thing we're going to need
to do is to oops this is not it next
thing we're going to need to do is log
into that router the one night at
192.168.1.1 and we're going to do that
using the a browser I'm using Firefox
you can use whatever you'd like and in
Firefox going to go to the address bar
and we're going to put that IP address
in 192.168.1.1 which is where my main
router is so we're gonna hit enter on
that and it's going to ask me for a
username and password in my case I'm
using a Netgear and it the default
password on that will be admin for the
username and password for the password
if you have a different router it'll be
a different default use your username
and password or it'll be whatever you
set it to when you first set it up I
don't know what that is you probably do
and if you don't know what your default
username and password for your router is
just google it you're bound to found it
find it there just Google default
password for whatever type of router you
have and they'll give it to you other
than that I'd say go to your
documentation and look there so here
we're gonna do exactly that we're gonna
put it a min and then we're going to go
to password I'm gonna put password and I
strongly suggest that you change these
default passwords for security purposes
but I'm just using the defaults here
yeah sure
there type that in right works and here
we go Internet into the Netgear
interface now neck here has two
interfaces it has a new interface which
is what you're looking at here it's
called neck gerd neck gear genie and it
has the old firmware if you're running
the old firmware you'll see something
like this basically it's see if we can
get back to it yeah here we go it'll
look like this it's kind of a menu
driven thing but I'll show you how to
set this up on both of the Netgear
firmwares and then I'll show you the
difference between the neck year and
tp-link and probably many other routers
so okay so let's go here back to our
router here and we're logged in at 192
months exceed that one that one we're
gonna go to the Advanced tab here and
just so you know I'll show you on the
regular neck here and I'll show you on
the tp-link and then if yours is
different you'll need to find where
these settings are so I've got an
advanced here we're gonna go to setup
then we're gonna go land setup and in
land setup you'll see all your IP
address information and here you see
where the routers IP address is
designated as 192 168 dot one not one is
to see there but what matters down here
is the use router as DHCP server that
has to be on your router if it isn't on
turn it on but by default it is on and
here you'll see that it's set to a range
of 192.168.1 sided one two five six
eight dot one dot two and then the the
ending IP address range is 254 what that
means is that the DHCP server will be
assigning IP addresses which are there's
a unique one for every one I
every device on your network from that
range the problem with that is that we
need to assign a static IP address to
this router and that means that there's
no way that the DHCP server can give out
the same ip address as what you assigned
to this okay so the way we stopped that
from ever happening is by changing this
number over here and we're going to
change it to let's say let's take 20
okay basically that means that it will
when the DHCP server starts assigning IP
addresses for all the devices on your
network it will start at 20 and then
basically go all the way up to 254 and
that means that everything between
192.168.1.1 and 20 is free for us to
assign whatever we want to so I'm
leaving it there you you know you can
change that number to whatever a lower
number if you wish but make sure you
leave enough so that you can adjust and
assign at least one ok so here we go
here we're gonna hit apply we'll wait
for this to finish and I'll show you
next let's go over here this is the net
gear router the old interface for your
neck your router and we'll go to land
setup here it's a little easier actually
and you'll see here again that DHCP
server is on by default and that again
that it's - so again I would say you
know set it to 10 or 20 that's fine and
then hit apply and it'll do the same
thing as we did over here ok next I'm
gonna show you the TP links interface
for this same thing here we TP link it
has just a menu on the left and DHCP is
right there
this shows you that it's enabled again
by default but this one has a different
range
it goes from 192.168.0.1 hundred to 192
that wants to say that zero dot not one
hundred ninety-nine so if you're using a
tp-link as your main router then
basically not to worry because you can
assign an IP address that's lower than
100 to this router and you'll be fine ok
but again I'll show you how to handle
different
P addresses in the next slide so all
right let's go back to our neck gear
router and let's try this again here
this seems to okay disconnected me here
let me reconnect to it there we go and
we'll take a look and see if my setting
took try again
there we go and you see here it's set to
20 so we're good here we're done with
the main router and that's the only
configuration you need to do on the main
router that is to configure DHCP you
know so that there's a little space for
you to put some IP addresses that you're
going to hard code to your routers so
here we're gonna hit log out and we're
gonna close this actually we'll just
minimize it and now we're going to go to
our next slide so we've got to now the
main router we know that its IP address
is 192.168.1.1 and here are the rules
for that okay if you've got a different
number other than 192.168.1.1 then
basically whatever you have will be
either 192.168.1.1 or dot zero dot one
as you saw there on the tp-link router
or maybe it'll be two dot one what you
know basically this third octet is what
they call it will be different whatever
that number is you know basically it's
good I'm gonna represent it here as
being X in the number sequence so if the
number is one then you put place a one
where the X is here and if the number
you will also do the same thing on the
secondary router where X is so this
would be 192.168.1.2 and as you can see
I already labeled my two routers
correctly again if yours was zero on the
primary then the secondary here would be
zero as well okay so next thing we need
to do is actually set the IP address for
the secondary router and in order to do
that we got to plug it in to the
computer you're working with in my case
it's a laptop but if you got a PC you
know you're gonna plug it into that PC
and go from there
now if you don't have a PC here you know
a way to plug in and plug in this router
into your device that you're configuring
with well I guess you could log into it
through wireless but I'm doing it
through a LAN connection and I'll show
you how that physically looks when I'm
do when when I do it okay
then we'll set the IP address okay here
we have the tp-link the secondary router
we're gonna be using the W and re sub W
are eight forty one N and we're going to
patch we're gonna connect the patch cord
to one of these ports if you use anyone
you want I'll use number one and
basically go like that and plug the
other end into our laptop or a computer
that we're using into the land port on
it like so and then we're going to power
that router up hitting the power button
again this is the same procedure no
matter what router you're using here now
it doesn't have to be the tp-link okay
so I'm just going to power it up and
then next we're going to go into the
laptop one thing you may want to do and
I'm going to do is I'm going to put a
little piece of black tape over the LAN
port that's the blue port on this one or
the internet port whatever they call it
on your router and I'm just going to put
a piece of black tape over that because
we'll never be you will never use that
again if we're using this as a secondary
router the way I'm showing you and we
don't want people plugging stuff in
there if it's not going to work so I'm
just gonna put a piece of tape over it
like that so don't use it again and
we're only going to use the yellow or
the land ports not the LAN or Internet
port so I'll just put that tape there to
stop anybody from plugging anything in
there okay oh there I guess it helps if
you plug that in correctly into the
laptop like that so now we got our
router plugged into our laptop and
basically at this point we need to find
out what IP address our secondary router
is on and that's fairly basic its it
should be just like finding the primary
routers IP address so right click the
network icon at the bottom right here
hit open network and sharing ok so here
we are on that then we
to change adapter settings here on the
left and we're hooked up through
Ethernet so right-click that and choose
status and then details then you see
down here where it says 192.168.0.1 on
default gateway dhcp server and DNS
server that's the IP address that is
connected to the LAN port currently so
sorry that's the IP address of the
router that's connected to the LAN port
currently so now we know what IP address
to use so close this up open up a
browser window here I'm using Chrome now
you use what you wish to use it doesn't
really matter here we're going to type
in 192.168.0.1 which is the IP of the
tp-link router as you can see here on
the screen so success let's type in the
default password and the default
password for the admin sorry for the
tp-link router is admin and the username
or sorry the default username is admin
the password is also admin so admin
admin all lowercase now if you if you
have a different router from tp-link or
Netgear and you don't know what its
password is well google your router and
default password and you're more than
likely going to get a result as to what
your default password for your router is
otherwise you'll need to fight you'll
need to find out what your a username
and password you changed it to or maybe
just reset the router but understand
when you reset the router you lose all
the settings for your router and you
need to reconfigure it ok but they will
reboot with the default password and
username activated at that point how do
you reset your router well google that
as well they'll tell you the
instructions here we're just gonna hit a
minute mint and go in there we go much
better now you can see that this router
is in its default state because I reset
it myself
it's saying quick setup but we're not
going to do that we're just going to hit
exit on that and now we're at the Status
page the first thing you want to do on
this router is disable the DHCP server
on this router because you don't want to
DHCP servers
on a single segment it just wreaks havoc
we're going to use the DHCP server from
the primary or the master router and you
know as we set it up there you saw that
was on so but here we're gonna go to
DHCP first and when they click on
disable and then hit save and it says
nope DHCP configure its ok and then here
you get the option to reboot the device
so let's do that and reboot yes and
we'll wait for this thing to reboot and
then after that after reboots we're
going to set the IP address on this
router to the one 92168 dot one dot two
that we saw in that first diagram and
I'll show you that here this thing here
so what we're gonna do is go here as
we've determined the IP address for the
master or is for the main the secondary
is going to be this 192.168.1.2 again
this picture explains how to set yours
if your your main router has a different
IP address like one not to that one six
eight dot zero dot one and this would be
dot zero dot two here on this side so at
this point we should have rebooted let's
take a look what we got going on yep
back to the event and main page so here
we're gonna go type in admin sorry to
the back to the router login page you
should really change these numbers these
the username and password for your
router should not leave the default
username and password on the router just
makes it too easy to hack ok so we're
back in next thing we need to do is go
to network over here and change its IP
address ok now here on under network I
landed on LAN but where you want to go
is to LAN and under land you'll see the
IP address for the router ok and in this
case it's 192.168.0.1 we know that here
we're going to change this to
192.168.1.2 now once we do this it will
change the D flag on page four the
router
to that IP address the one I too was 6-8
that 1.2 so after we've done this we no
longer will have access to the router
anymore but that's okay
it'll just be you know as long as we set
it then we can continue on from here and
connect it to the other router and after
we connect it to the other router will
have access to it again so here we're
gonna hit save notification the LAN
settings will result in rebooting the
device okay
okay all right so now it's rebooting
when it's done rebooting we should get a
blank page we shouldn't be able to get
back into it because our IP address will
be different then its IP address it'll
be on what they call a different segment
so basically that's the network talk for
another time zone basically so let's
just change the adapter and go here to
see what where we are currently right
and you see that we're on the 192.168.0
100 IP and that is still on this 192
that wants to say that 0.1 IP now that
IP address just you know i'm gonna try
not to be too technical was given to us
by this router but once you turn to dhcp
off it will not give you a new right a
new IP address so you know if here says
if it does not refresh automatically key
click click refresh on the top of your
browser well if i do that nothing will
happen because we won't be able to get
to that router anymore okay we changed
the IP address and even if you put it in
here 1.2 which is where that router is
now you're not going to get to it
because your network configuration is
not correct but don't worry about that
at this point you've done what you
needed to do that router we're going to
disconnect it from the laptop and now
we're going to connect it to the main
router so I'll show you that next so the
next step is connecting to two routers
and as I showed before I've got the
patch cable or my LAN cable plugged into
the number one port on this tp-link
router which is their secondary it can
be plugged into any of the ports that's
not an issue and then we go from there
into our primary router which already is
connected to the Internet
and it's powered on and you can plug
that one into any free port you have on
the back of that I'll choose number one
and so it's one to one but it doesn't
matter it can be any one of the orange
ports on this one as well as any one of
the orange ports on this one as well
not the LAN port that's why I put the
piece of tape over it there as you can
see so at this point the two routers are
connected and they're ready to go
they're actually talking to each other
and this one here is actually already
acting as the secondary router to the
primary router because this are already
configured correctly now we do need to
configure the wireless or the Wi-Fi and
button in the secondary just to make
sure that it doesn't clash with the
primary and I'll explain that while I'm
doing it but also this these patch
cables I'm using are cat 5e now these
are only hundred megabit per second
routers so they're not super fast but
most routers today are one gigabit
routers and you want to be using a cat5e
cable for that and you know get the most
speed and least amount of what they call
collisions and basically optimize
everything so in networking you're only
as fast as your slowest component if
you've got a cheap wire cat5 wire that
that you know it's not helping your
speed it's going to slow down you know
great equipment to you know the cat 5
category wire so again if you don't know
what kind of wire you have just check
usually it's printed right on it this
one is printed on it it says cat 5e
right on it and so does this black one
as well so usually if it's cat5e or cat6
it'll be written on it if it's not
written on it then you basically have
cat 5 so at this point oh one more thing
- the patch cable between the two
routers can be as long as long as 100
meters I don't know if that's in feet I
think about 385 feet but regardless look
at the
the specifications for your cable and
see what the maximum length length can
be and that's the beauty about this is
that you can have quite a long cable
between the two routers and they'll talk
just fine so now they're connected you
saw that it connected and now we're
going what I'm going to do is connect
wirelessly to this router and then go
from that one to this one to configure
the Wi-Fi on it and then at that point
it'll be working as a secondary router
to your primary router well one more
thing to I may make a video you can
actually attach a third router a fourth
router and a fifth router to this to
this chain and make you know spread them
out so you could have one on every
corner of your house with this method ok
so there is possibility of doing that I
may do a video on that in the future
showing me how that is actually
configured alright we've got everything
connect connected and actually it should
be live at this point I've connected to
my wireless my main router my primary
router this is Netgear 73 Wi-Fi
connection so at this point this is a
configuration I got going on and this is
now totally active the secondary router
should be sharing out the internet from
the primary router to everything it
connects to so let's go see how this all
works I minimize this thing here there
we go and open up a browser window
we're gonna go to 192 and as you saw
here in this picture 192.168 is the
primary IP address for the primary
router so we're going to go there
192.168.1.1 enter bingo we get a prop to
login this is good
it is admin and lowercase and this is
the default for the neck here so
password is the password please change
that if you have it active in yours okay
so we get the genie here and obviously
everything here is working we're going
to go here to the well that's that's how
you get to the first one we should also
be a
to route through this router into the
second router and at this point I'm just
gonna open up a new tab show you how
that happens 192.168.1.2 that's the IP
address of the second router there it is
and we're going to log into it with a
default password admin man boom so
access to both routers both routers
working at the same time perfect okay
next thing you want to do and this is a
basically a tweak and a wireless what do
you call it
optimization let's go to the wireless
settings on these things and you know
you may be tempted to use the same SSID
in the same password on both routers
please don't do that
I'll tell you why because if there's any
overlap between the two routers and you
know whatever device you're trying to
connect to both devices will you will
either choose one or the other but it
will not choose the strongest signal
it'll choose the signal that answers
first so it's not a matter of strength
or power or speed it's all it is a
matter of speed it's a matter of who
which router answers the call first
so don't name them both the same thing
as you can see here the SSID or the
network ID for the wireless on the net
gear is Netgear 73 so you shouldn't be
naming your tp-link with the same what
do you call it SSID because it's just
gonna cause confusion okay so let's go
over here to the TP link go to its
wireless setting and you see that mine
is something totally different tp-link
DCD underscore d6 c0 now you can name
them whatever you want just change the
SSID or the wireless network name here
and then save those settings okay that's
my first recommendation don't use the
same SSID you can use the same password
for both of them that's fine but don't
use the same SSID it just doesn't work
well number one number two if you did
use the same SSID for both routers you'd
never know which router you're actually
can
- okay you could be connected to the
furthest one away from you instead of
the one right in front of you okay so by
changing the the SSID you'll always know
which Wi-Fi network you're connected to
and you know hopefully you know where
your what which one is which now second
thing to do on these things notice here
where it says channel Auto that means
it's gonna go anywhere right don't do
that on on B G and N networks there's
only three channels that don't overlap
each other and you don't want the
channels to overlap because when they do
they actually interfere with each other
okay it's it's very technical but just
trust me on this channel one six and 11
are the only three you should be using
so set one for one and then set the
other for the other so I'm gonna set my
tp-link router to channel 11 and as far
as ways I can get on the other one I'm
gonna choose channel one okay so let's
just click Save on that let it save and
let's go over here to my net gear and
again look at the channel Auto you know
we're change that to channel one so then
we're gonna hit apply there are ways to
optimize the Wi-Fi even further but
we're not going into that here I just
wanted you to make sure that if you set
these things up close to each other or
within talking distance to Wi-Fi
distance of each other that they don't
actually interfere with each other and
they won't if they're on channel 1 6 or
11 you can play with the channels but
just make sure you choose one of those
three channels okay so it looks like the
neck year is rebooting so wait for that
the tp-link it's already saved at
settings let's go look at wireless
security yeah that's because the night
gear is actually rebleeding at this
point wait here
what's the next year and okay well
here's another thing too I've set both
SS IDs up here so both networks so I
should be able to go to tp-link here the
DC 60 and connect to that Network which
is the secondary network you call what
you wish and of course it's going to ask
me for a password but to see what the
actual password we're using here is well
you got to be able to get to it first
right
okay well wait here let's get back on
that's the issue I was connected through
wireless let's connect back on to
wireless again when it reboots it kicks
me off so just refresh this page
boom it's running again and I should
have access to this router now as well
no so here we go back to wireless let's
look at the wireless security I got to
get the wireless password here and you
know trust me it won't be this online
for more than the next two minutes so
I'm just going to copy it here as you
can see and use wpa wpa2 you know what
they recommend this is good
so I'm just gonna control see that go
back over here and connect to my tp-link
and here drop that password in there
there we go next
and the beautiful thing about these this
actual configuration of routers is that
both routers have access to everything
on the network so if you're connected to
the secondary or the primary you got
access to everything that the primary
has and whatever the secondary is
connected to the primary if you're
connected to the primary the second the
primary has access to the secondary just
as well and that's a really nice thing
so right now I'm logged into the the
tp-link router if I were to open a web
page to go surfing I obviously can you
see that Google is up and running for
the web store here again on the net on
the secondary right and if I go to the
neck here we'll just click and connect
on that you will see that we're actually
on there as well so let's go here there
you go are we connected let's see yeah
connected secured so we're good and at
this point we should be able to go here
go where we want see pops up no problem
let's go let's go back back again so and
again still have access to everything on
this router right now this is always
going to be there why import is unplug
because it is unplug we never want to
plug the lamp port in there anyway so
back to status on that back to this
router we see that we're status is good
we're on the internet there's a SSID
what we're connected to and I'm notice
here that I'm not connected through
Wi-Fi to the tp-link right now connected
to the neck here and I have access to
everything it's not an issue okay
so that's how you connect two routers
together to share the Internet and as I
said I may make a video on how you can
cascade another router off the secondary
and so on and so forth to make this even
a bigger chain I'll have to
a third router to show you with and I I
think I have access to one somewhere and
you know if you're interested in that
video comment below or if you have any
comments at all just put them in the
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sorry in the comment section below I
will be putting links to both these
routers and two other routers I use I
like tp-link routers a lot and I
primarily now use just those because
they're just beautiful in there and
they're a good value and I'll put links
to those in the video description below
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