Do you use a WiFi network for connecting to the internet? If yes, then you may have experienced connectivity problems at times when you are using a WiFi connection in a room which is at a distance from your WiFi transmitter or what we call it, a router. I often face low connectivity problem while accessing internet via my WiFi router in different parts of my house. I had no option other than contacting my internet service provider and ask them for a WiFi repeater . However, things became worst when they told me that they were running short of routers. That was the time when I called up few of my geek friends and came up with a home-made solution to my problem. I am sure this tutorial will help many of you since walls and obstructions are there in everyone’s houses.
Talking about the Wireless Network, the WiFi network strength for you will depend completely on the type of router you are using. There are particularly two standard routers for WiFi network which you may find on the back side of your router: 802.11-g and 802.11-n . While the N-type routers( 802.11-n) is considered to possess a wider network range, you may still face problems due to large number or walls and obstructions in your house. In this tutorial, we will help you in increasing your WiFi range using an old-working router.
How-To:
# First, you should go through the layout I have designed for my house. This will give you a hint of what you need to do since it is a common house layout.
# Here, you can see that my desktop computer is connected to the router via a common Ethernet cable. Further, I have named my prime router ‘A’ and the old router I will be using is named as ‘B’. Router ‘A’ is connected to a standard ISP.
# Next, you will need to record the network configuration for the router ‘A’ on a paper. You just need to record your IP address and the Subnet Mask value. To do this, hit Start and type Run in the search box. Find the application and open it. Next, in the Windows Run box, enter the following command:
cmd /k ipconfig
# Note down the IP address and Subnet Mask value. In my case, the IP address is 192.168.1.6 and Subnet Mask value is 255.255.255.0 which is default in most cases.
# Now, open your web-browser and type your IP address noted earlier in the address bar. In case you are using IE, add http:// before the IP address.
# This will bring you to your router login page. If you know the username and password you can simply log in, but if you are not sure of the username-password, you can use Google to search for your router model. Further, you can also try standard username-passwords like admin-admin, admin-password, admin-<no password> .
# After logging into your router configuration, navigate to Wireless Settings page and record the SSID, Channel, Wireless mode and your Wireless network password for the router ‘A’.
# Now is the time to configure the router ‘B’. First, make sure you perform a hard-reset on the router to dissolve any previous saved configurations. Next, connect your router ‘B’ to your computer using standard Ethernet cable.
# Open up your browser and type in 192.168.1.1 in the address bar. This is the default IP address of a raw router. Netgear and D-Link routers may have 192.168.0.1 as their default IP address.
# Once you enter the configuration page, change the configuration for router ‘B’ (SSID, Channel, Wireless Mode, Wireless Network Password) and enter the same configuration you had for router ‘A’. This is the most important step since the two routers should have exactly identical configuration to work together.
# Now on the router configuration page, navigate to Setup>>Advance Routing. Next, change the Current Mode to Router and disable DHCP Server since we left that task for our router ‘A’.
# Assign a free IP address to the router ‘B’. For instance, in my case the IP address of router ‘A’ is 192.168.1.6 . This means I can assign the IP address- 192.168.1.7 to my router ‘B’.
# Now in the final step, you just need to connect the router ‘A’ and router ‘B’ using free LAN ports available on the back side of your router.
Now everything is set up the way we wanted it to be. You can now safely connect to a wireless network using router ‘B’.
This method worked perfectly for me. You can try increasing your WiFi strength with the help of this tutorial and let us know if its working fine for you via the comments section below. For more, keep subscribed! 
Sidhant is a strategist, blogger,freelancer and founder of GeekSyrup, an online module and one of the most read how-to guide.. 
