Thank you both for your helpful replies. I'm very new to router things, so I'm confused by terminology like AP, Router, Bridge AP, Repeater, Extender, etc.
What is the difference between an Access Point and a Router? They both seem like synonyms to me. What is Bridge AP?
I have a Totolink router, it provides options to configure it as:
1. Router
2. Range Extender(Repeater)
3. Bridge AP
4. WISP Client
5. Wireless Client
6. Client
I don't understand what 3-6 mean, I presently don't have a long Ethernet cable to connect through hard wire, so I tried configuring it as range extender, this is how the setup looked like:
Internet connection------->[router (admin ip: 192.168.0.1) ]<-----wireless------>[totolink configured as repeater (admin ip:192.168.1.1)]<------wireless------>wireless client
In this setup I was getting higher WiFi signal than before but I couldn't access the repeater's admin page, my wireless client received an IP in router's local IP range. When I checked router's admin page, I saw that the repeater was assigned 192.168.0.102 but typing this address also didn't take me to repeater's admin page, when I connected to repeater through a short Ethernet cable provided by Totolink, the connected client received an IP in router's local IP range.
I read the suggested "
router-converted-to-access point" web page. I'm thankful for this helpful guide. In it, it is mentioned that I should connect the connection from main router to the LAN port of 2nd router.
When I get a long Ethernet cable, what would have happen if I connected one end of it in the LAN port of the main router and connected the other end in the WAN port of the second router, this second router will get an IP from the main router and create a WiFi signal with Internet.
I'm new to routers and networking things so I don't know if this will work or if that is the way to do it.
Why do router companies advertise or sell routers as N300, N600, N150 when they put only 100Mbps WAN port in these routers, I mean what is the need to advertise a router as capable of providing 300Mbps over wireless when the most it can take is just 100Mbps, how can it give what it cannot receive? Is this a marketing gimmick to dupe innocent customers?