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My family uses up A LOT of my internet bandwidth. I want to add a second one without a public SSID. This will connect all of my devices together. I can't only use the 5 GHz band on one because not all of my devices support it. I would prefer they have different IP Addresses for personal reasons.
 
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Your ISP gives out one and only one IP address, and only a certain amount of bandwidth. You can have 2 routers...on different subnets. But that will absolutely not increase your internet speed talking to the outside world.

Unless...1. You pay your ISP for more bandwidth, or 2. You get a whole second account at the house.
 
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Yes. When plugged directly into the modem, you get whatever IP address your provider gives you. One and only one. Mine might be 70.225.24.182 (from Verizon)

When plugged into the router, you get whatever IP address the router gives you. This can/will be many.
192.168.1.3, 192.168.1.4, 192.168.1.5, etc, etc.

You can only connect one device directly to the modem. Generally, this would be a router. The router then hands out many internal IP addresses.
 
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No, my external IP changes when using my router. Not going to say whole thing, but it goes: 68.36.***.** Linksys Router; 56.(something).**.** Comcast.

If I can't get two IP addresses, how can I set up the second router as an Access Point to share the IP with a different SSID?
 
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Right. Your external address from Comcast, 68.36.xxx.xxx is the one and only address you get from them. That can and does change. Unless you are trying to run a server from home, that doesn't matter.

Internally, you have a router. SSID of "Ninja". You could, have a secondary router depending off that first one, on another subnet, with an SSID of "Kid-12345"

They (and all devices) will share the entirety of the bandwidth you get from Comcast.
For instance, If your service plan is 10Mbps down/2Mbps up....that is all you get. Shared between all devices in your house.
The only way to get 'more' is to pay Comcast for a faster service plan, or pay Comcast for a whole other connection.

Another router does not increase the speed of the pipe from the curb to the house.
 
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