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My WLAN card recently started losing quality but I just got a new router (and kept the old one). The problem is that the router is down one floor and we don’t have Ethernet going through the house. So I was wondering if I could link the old router to the new one and put the old one upstairs and use the Ethernet connections instead of WLAN cards.

I know this is possible if you chain the two together with an Ethernet cable, but obviously that is unavailable. Anyway I can do this wirelessly? I’ve heard about bridging them, but I’m not entirely sure if that is what I need.

Chenmunka
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Cooked Goose
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Would need to know the model/revision of your routers you have currently.

If your routers support DD-WRT, you could do a "repeater bridge" setup with your second router to allow devices that are in range of the 2nd router to connect to the main router. They'd still be "daisy-chained" in a sense, but the 2nd router will use the wireless signal for traffic and there will be no need for an ethernet cable between the two.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Repeater_Bridge

Since you mentioned using the downstairs computers/devices on Ethernet cables, you could do a client bridge instead of the repeater bridge. In a "client bridge" setup, you would be only allowed to use wired connections on the second router.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Client_Bridged

If you do decide to go down the DD-WRT route, please read all the information regarding how to change over to DD-WRT.

N. Greene
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