How to extend my uplink router’s wireless coverage by Wireless WAN

Product line: wireless    question category: wireless settings

 

The connection topology is as following

Key points:

The LAN IP address should be in different network segment. For example, the uplink router has the LAN IP 192.168.0.1, then you can set the secondary router’s LAN IP as 192.168.2.1.

 

Steps are as below:

1.       login to the router’s homepage 192.168.0.1

2. Choose DHCP, set the security key (wireless password), and click OK.

3. Change the LAN IP of the router.( If the LAN IP is already in the different segment of your uplink router, you don’t need to do that.)

 

4. Click WAN Medium Type and then choose Wireless WAN, and Open Scan.

 

4. Select your uplink router’s SSID.

 

5. Select your uplink router’s Security mode and input its security key, then click OK to save the settings.

 

 

6. After reboot, if the connection status shows connected and get the gateway of uplink router, it means that you can have internet.