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Arian_3

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Hey, I recently moved into a bigger house and my room is currently upstairs as the router is downstairs in the living room with the modem. I have a second netgear router I would like to setup upstairs to help increase my wifi signal or just connect an ethernet to it and connect to my PC. But the problem is how do I do it without running an ethernet cable from the first router to the second router? I have no way possible to run it. So how can I do this wireless? I heard about WDS bridging but on the netgear router page I do not see a setting to check on for that. Anyone mind giving me a super clear tutorial on how to set this up? I really need to reset my pc and I can't do it unless I get this router stuff done. I need to reinstall my things quickly up here :)))))
 
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You dont want to configure your netgear as a WDS/wifi repeater.
A wifi repeater plays middle man and when you only have a single radio router/device this means it has to split its bandwidth between the router and the client devices. Thus if you can only get 80mbps connection to the router then you only get 40mbps for ALL devices connected to it.

Depending on the firmware of the netgear router you can set it up as a wireless bridge and then plug an ethernet cable into it to go to your computer.
I cant give you specifics on how to do this because different models will have different ways of doing this (and some wont be able to at all).

The much much better way to do this is to get a powerline network adapter as listed by another...
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bill001g

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If you already have a wireless nic in your pc you are pretty much wasting your time. The second router will not get any better signal that your current nic in most cases. Adding another layer of stuff just increases the wireless problems.

To use WDS your second router would have to have the ability to run as a repeater which most do not. Using it in effect as a wireless nic and connect to your pc via ethernet requires the device to have what is called client-bridge mode. Again this more a function of a repeater than a router.

I would look at using powerline devices instead they tend to work in most houses. The newest av2 versions work much better than the older av200 and av500 models.
 
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boosted1g

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You dont want to configure your netgear as a WDS/wifi repeater.
A wifi repeater plays middle man and when you only have a single radio router/device this means it has to split its bandwidth between the router and the client devices. Thus if you can only get 80mbps connection to the router then you only get 40mbps for ALL devices connected to it.

Depending on the firmware of the netgear router you can set it up as a wireless bridge and then plug an ethernet cable into it to go to your computer.
I cant give you specifics on how to do this because different models will have different ways of doing this (and some wont be able to at all).

The much much better way to do this is to get a powerline network adapter as listed by another poster. This will get you ethernet to your desktop.
If you want ethernet to desktop AND have wifi then you can use the powerine adapter and connect to your netgear and confure it to be an access point, then plug cable from it into PC and you will have wired and wirelss connections from the access point now.
 
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dogtag98

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I used a power line wifi extender, can't remember which brand, but it needed to be setup on the PC that the modem was setup on. Very simple, plug transmitter into the modem and an electric outlet. Setup on the PC that hosts your modem. The instructions that were included were very clear and easy to understand. . Mine also had an Ethernet outlet on the bottom of the body. Plug in the receiver where your PC is located, you can WIFI or connect an Ethernet cable. Worked quit well.
 
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