johnnyhillen
New Around Here
Hi
Im new to the forum and have limited experience in networking.
Im trying to help my mum set up a network in her house. she lives in a very old brick house with very thick walls. There was appauling wifi coverage outside of the hall where the main router resides.
About a week ago I have ran cat 5e to the attic where i have placed a tplink tl-wr841n. I have set the ip address to 192.168.2.1 so its far from the main routers, set the ssid and password and disabled the dhcp. I then ran cat 5e from that to the other side of the house and put another same model router with the same settings. I was able to get internet access upstairs from the first tplink router using both wifi and wired connecton. when i tried the second it wouldnt connect to the internet either way.
i came back to day and am trying i again. i reset both routers and re entered the settings again but now i can get internet through a wired connection only to both tplink routers. i can get my phone to connect via wifi to both networks but theres no internet connection
any ideas
thanks in advance
Im new to the forum and have limited experience in networking.
Im trying to help my mum set up a network in her house. she lives in a very old brick house with very thick walls. There was appauling wifi coverage outside of the hall where the main router resides.
About a week ago I have ran cat 5e to the attic where i have placed a tplink tl-wr841n. I have set the ip address to 192.168.2.1 so its far from the main routers, set the ssid and password and disabled the dhcp. I then ran cat 5e from that to the other side of the house and put another same model router with the same settings. I was able to get internet access upstairs from the first tplink router using both wifi and wired connecton. when i tried the second it wouldnt connect to the internet either way.
i came back to day and am trying i again. i reset both routers and re entered the settings again but now i can get internet through a wired connection only to both tplink routers. i can get my phone to connect via wifi to both networks but theres no internet connection
any ideas
thanks in advance