House is wired, but want more of house to have Wi-Fi?

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Will a device such as this LINKSYS WES610N-CA Dual-Band N600 4 Port Wireless-N Entertainment Bridge extend wireless access if I just plug it in to any Ethernet port in my house, or does it have to be directly connected to the wireless router I already have?
 
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It would be in the routers settings page. You just need to set the ip address of the router. Each routers pages are a little different, but typically the ip address is on the main page of router config. You need to set the internal ip address, not the wan ip address. WAN ip should stay on dhcp, it will get this address from the main router. Yoh also might need to update the ip address range for connected devices if it doesnt change on its own, but most of them do.

If you get a second router and tell me the model. I can help you through the setup.
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It can be connected to any plug of your house to have Wifi coverage where you want, but of course this wireless router needs to be connected to your ISP router.
Meaning that you use an ethernet cable to connect your ISP router to the right plug switch (the box where all your Ethernet plugs end), and on the other side in the room that you want have wifi you connect a cable from the plug to your wireless router.
 
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That particular device is not what you are looking for.  That is meant to take devices without wireless and bridge them to your wireless router.  It sounds like you already have wired ethernet throughout the house but you have weak wireless signals in areas away from the router.  You have 2 options, a wireless range extender or a second router.  A wireless range extender like a LINKSYS RE1000-NP Wireless-N Range Extender would be placed in a location within range of your existing wireless signal and then would push that signal further.  Unfortunately, the reviews of a lot of range extenders are mixed to downright bad.  If you do have wired all throughout your house, the second router is a better idea.  Plug the router into the weakest area of your house and it creates a new network to attach to.  It will then route all its connected devices through the first router and out to the internet.  Just be sure to set it to a different sub-domain, i.e. first router is 192.168.1.1, second should be 192.168.2.1.
 
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How do you set it to a different sub-domain?
 
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It would be in the routers settings page. You just need to set the ip address of the router. Each routers pages are a little different, but typically the ip address is on the main page of router config. You need to set the internal ip address, not the wan ip address. WAN ip should stay on dhcp, it will get this address from the main router. Yoh also might need to update the ip address range for connected devices if it doesnt change on its own, but most of them do.

If you get a second router and tell me the model. I can help you through the setup.
 
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Thank you, I finally got somewhere. One of my older routers must be broken because I got it to work with a second wireless router Linksys WRT54g by logging in, changing its ip and turning off DHCP. Then, I plugged it into an Ethernet outlet. It comes up as a second network instead of being part of the first one, but at least that's working for now. Do I have to change the range of the original router to include the ip address of the new one to make it so it's all one network? I think I may get a new router anyway, but just using this temporarily.
 
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On a WRT54g router:

Setup Tab:
Top box = Automatic Configuration - DHCP
Router Name = Anything you want
Host Name = blank
Domain Name = blank
MTU = Auto

Local IP Address = This is where you want to specify the IP Address, if your first router is 192.168.1.1, set this one to 192.168.2.1
Starting IP Address = 2 (the first 3 sets of numbers may not update to match the above number until after you save and restart the router)
Max Number of DHCP Users = 50 is normal
Client Lease Time = 0
All the rest should be 0s

Wireless Tab:
Basic Setup:
Mak sure the SSID is not the same as your other wireless network

That should be all you need for it to work.
 
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