How to connect two N66U with wire?

[rico90]

Hello!

First post here

I want to connect two N66Us togheter with ethernetcable and by doing that extend my wireless network two both our floors in out conrete house. Can i configure both routers to act as a single wireless network? I want to see 2 SSIDs when i am ready (not 4). One 2.4Ghz and one 5Ghz. Asus EA-N66 repeater is not for me beacuase it can only extend either 2.4 or 5Ghz and not both at the same time. Thats why i need two routers. I will not connect any device with ethernetcable except the cable between the both routers.

2 routers connected with cable physically but viewed as one wireless network with two SSID (2.4Ghz and 5Ghz)

Sorry for my bad english

 

[joegreat]

Hello!
I want to connect two N66Us togheter with ethernetcable and by doing that extend my wireless network two both our floors in out conrete house. Can i configure both routers to act as a single wireless network?

Hi,

I do the same with my two Asus Routers (both running Merlin's firmware):
- The main router (RT-N66U) is connected to the internet and provides WLAN on the one end of my flat
- The scoundary router (RT-N16) is running in Access Point (AP) mode to provide WLAN to the many clients I have on the other end of the flat - of course it runs und different WLAN channels to avoid problems with the main router overlap.

The soucndray router is connect via LAN to the main one.
Simply from one LAN to the other LAN port (not WAN).

You can configure the AP router manually (as I did) or it can get IP and other settings via DHCP.

With kind regards
Joe

 

[RogerSC]

The main idea here is that the upstairs (secondary) router is used as an access point (AP). This is fairly simple to do, turn off DHCP (and UPNP) on the AP router, your main router will do all DHCP. You will set the wireless SSID's on the AP router to the same names as the wireless SSID's on the main router, since you mentioned wanting to end up with only 2 SSID's. The AP router is also generally set to a static IP address in the same subnet as the main router, but not in the main router's DHCP pool. The AP can then be administered using this IP address. Also, one of the LAN ports of the main router needs to be connected to a LAN port on the AP via an ethernet cable. Then the AP will provide both wired connectioins (3 of them), and will provide wireless service as well. The WAN port on an AP set up in this way is not used or configured.

This router also has an AP mode via "Administration" -> "Operation Mode" in the admin web GUI. I'm not sure how much of the configuration mentioned above that this does, you should look at the settings after changing the mode to "AP", and do any extra configuration that you need to do.

I expect that you might also be able to have the AP's IP address assigned via DHCP, but then you have to "find it" to be able to administer it, using the "Device Discovery" utility. At least the manual implies this, but the manual says very little about using AP mode.

Someone who has done this will have better detailed instructions, this is to give you an idea of what you're looking for in general.

 

[CaptainSTX]

AP

Go into LAN tab and set IP you want to assign to AP. It should not be in the range that your router's DHCP server is going to assign. My router is the standard 192.168.1.1 and my AP is set to 192.168.1.10. My router's DHCP server assigns addresses starting at 192.168.1.100. After you assign a LAN IP to your AP turn off the DHCP server on the AP.

Next Go into Administration and set the mode to AP and save. Some of the tabs will disappear as you have and need less functionality in this mode.

Then go into the wireless and assign the SSIDs and the encryption. Setup a password on your AP to prevent people from making changes.

Connect an Ethernet cable from a LAN port on the router to a LAN port on the AP.

Reboot the router then the AP and you should be good to go. Check that you can sign into both your router and the AP

 

[rico90]

Thanks for all your answers! I think its all the information i need. I will get my routers in 2 days. I will post back when they are set up.

Thanks again!

 

[rico90]

I just set everything up and it works brilliant! Thank you so much your instructions were perfect. The only thing had to change was that i manually typed the gateway address on both the router and the AP (192.168.2.1 in my case). I question tough everything is working great. Should i have different channels on the SSID of the router? Example: Router groundfloor have 5Ghz SSID "hello5" and channel 36. Should SSID "hello5" on the accesspoint on the topfloor have a different channel?

Regards
Rickard

 

[joegreat]

Example: Router groundfloor have 5Ghz SSID "hello5" and channel 36. Should SSID "hello5" on the accesspoint on the topfloor have a different channel?

Hi,

Yep, different channels are a good idea, as the WLAN transmitting my still overlap and you avoid problems with seperate channels.
I would suggest at least 4 channels in between the two WLANs to awoid any (even small) overlapping.

With kind regards
Joe

 

[cdikland]

Ok... this is weird. I have a similar setup as described above (1 RT-AC66U <----> RT-N66U ( AP). For some reason I had connected the (AP) RT-N66U WAN port to one of the RT-AC66U LAN ports. Been like that for about 1 week and worked without issue . Go figure

 

[jlake]

Ok... this is weird. I have a similar setup as described above (1 RT-AC66U <----> RT-N66U ( AP). For some reason I had connected the (AP) RT-N66U WAN port to one of the RT-AC66U LAN ports. Been like that for about 1 week and worked without issue . Go figure

When you enable "AP mode" on the RT-N66u, the WAN port automatically becomes a LAN port.

 

[cdikland]

well that's good to know. I need the extra port