Wireless Internet routers are an amazing device. Plug it in and you can get an Internet connection anywhere in the house, right! Well usually right. I have one bedroom on the second floor that has a huge problem getting a good signal.            Why? Something in the building construction and or materials is stopping it.
I was thinking the other day, “what if I just setup a second wireless router at the other side of the house and connect it to the same network”. Seemed easy enough. I setup a second router, turned off the DHCP function, my first router is already doing that. Ran a cable from one of the switch ports on the first router to similar port on the second router, gave it a unique SSID ( this is the name the router broadcasts for identification). I gave the second router a fixed IP address on the same sub-net as my first router and Bob’s your uncle it worked. Now computers in that “dead space” can connect with good signal strength. This is not the solution for every connection problem but works like a charm for the right situation.