Wifi to Lan
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You can bridge your wifi and your ethernet adapter and that will allow you to give network connection to your other router.
There are tons of posts on these forums of people who tried this method and had very lousy results, windows and the networking hardware is just not made to to do this efficiently.
Here is the three best ways to accomplish your task in order of the best option:
1) ethernet cable from primary router to secondary router
2) Powerline network adapter (a 500mbps or better kind)
3) wireless bridge to receive wifi and then output to ethernet to secondary router.
Also if you want the secondary router to be able to share file and printers you will want to make it an access point instead of a normal router. An access point is classically an extension of an already established network, it allows the primary router to handle all of the routing/addressing and it just allows you to have more wireless/wired clients.
Some routers have easy mode settings but all routers can be changed inot access point mode. You will need to disable dhcp server, disable nat and spi firewall, change the secondary router to an IP in the same subnet of the primary router (subnet is the first three octets of the ip address, most routers default is 192.168.1), set the gateway (could also be called lan) ip address and dns to that of the primary router, and you will plug the ethernet cable into a LAN port of the access point and not the WAN port.
There are tons of posts on these forums of people who tried this method and had very lousy results, windows and the networking hardware is just not made to to do this efficiently.
Here is the three best ways to accomplish your task in order of the best option:
1) ethernet cable from primary router to secondary router
2) Powerline network adapter (a 500mbps or better kind)
3) wireless bridge to receive wifi and then output to ethernet to secondary router.
Also if you want the secondary router to be able to share file and printers you will want to make it an access point instead of a normal router. An access point is classically an extension of an already established network, it allows the primary router to handle all of the routing/addressing and it just allows you to have more wireless/wired clients.
Some routers have easy mode settings but all routers can be changed inot access point mode. You will need to disable dhcp server, disable nat and spi firewall, change the secondary router to an IP in the same subnet of the primary router (subnet is the first three octets of the ip address, most routers default is 192.168.1), set the gateway (could also be called lan) ip address and dns to that of the primary router, and you will plug the ethernet cable into a LAN port of the access point and not the WAN port.
Bridging won't work because the wireless is likely encrypted and a PC can not run WDS.
A access point is the reverse of what he needs. He is receiving his internet via wireless. He would need a repeater but if he does not control the main router it may not work if it does not support WDS or it is disabled.
The solution he is asking for is called ICS. Microsoft sites have good instructions on how to set this up. This works ok but you are using a PC as a router and you must leave it on all the time and be somewhat careful what you are runinng on the PC. If you run something that uses the PC resources it may affect other user traffic going though to the internet.
A access point is the reverse of what he needs. He is receiving his internet via wireless. He would need a repeater but if he does not control the main router it may not work if it does not support WDS or it is disabled.
The solution he is asking for is called ICS. Microsoft sites have good instructions on how to set this up. This works ok but you are using a PC as a router and you must leave it on all the time and be somewhat careful what you are runinng on the PC. If you run something that uses the PC resources it may affect other user traffic going though to the internet.
While you use ICS, the process would still be bridging the network adapters. I did not get into the specifics of what settings he needed because it is a crappy option and will have bad results.
I never claimed that an access point would bridge/repeat the network from his first router. I gave a list of the 3 best options for him, and told him if he wants the secondary router to have file and printer sharing capabilities the second router would need to be configured as an access point, thus all machines would be on the same subnet and he would not have 2 nat firewalls running.
His best options for performance are still as my post says: ethernet, powerline adapter, dedicated wireless bridge (instead of using windows pc which will not perform as well).
I never claimed that an access point would bridge/repeat the network from his first router. I gave a list of the 3 best options for him, and told him if he wants the secondary router to have file and printer sharing capabilities the second router would need to be configured as an access point, thus all machines would be on the same subnet and he would not have 2 nat firewalls running.
His best options for performance are still as my post says: ethernet, powerline adapter, dedicated wireless bridge (instead of using windows pc which will not perform as well).
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