I have an RT-AC66U as my main router downstairs. WiFi is spotty upstairs, so I've been trying to extend it using a couple of Powerline adapters I had lying around and a second cheap router I bought, but I keep running into problems.
As I understand it, this is the procedure: you copy the WiFi and internet settings (SSID, encryption, password, DNS etc) from the primary router to the secondary router. You switch off DHCP on the secondary router. You set the secondary router's own IP address as a number within the subrange of the primary router. (I set the secondary router to a static IP.) You put the secondary router into AP mode. Then you just connect the 2 routers via LAN over the Powerline and voilà ... Except for me it doesn't work.
I've done all this and for some reason the secondary router loses internet connection after a while. I can't work out if the problem resides with the secondary router or my primary Asus router.
Any ideas what am I doing wrong ?
I am using standard firmware, by the way
As I understand it, this is the procedure: you copy the WiFi and internet settings (SSID, encryption, password, DNS etc) from the primary router to the secondary router. You switch off DHCP on the secondary router. You set the secondary router's own IP address as a number within the subrange of the primary router. (I set the secondary router to a static IP.) You put the secondary router into AP mode. Then you just connect the 2 routers via LAN over the Powerline and voilà ... Except for me it doesn't work.
I've done all this and for some reason the secondary router loses internet connection after a while. I can't work out if the problem resides with the secondary router or my primary Asus router.
Any ideas what am I doing wrong ?
I am using standard firmware, by the way