Beating WiFi Deadzones

Hey Guys, I think that this episode, with the level of tech involved, could've been a little bit more step by step and organized in that you could've had one ideal run through of what needs to be done instead having some of the minor backtracking that was involved. You did a great job of keeping to a cemented setup, not straying or overlapping. I had to look at it a few times to realize that you were just using different SSID's on two wifi's but keeping the subnet the same and keeping to best practices with a static ip on a routing/switching device.

I kinda do it the same way but on the second router I turn the WAN port off and set it to act like a standard port then the second router I set it a static IP and turn off any DHCP and put the default gateway as the first router. Then just set up WiFi how you like it, basically the router is now acting more like a Advanced Switch with Wirless. The second router I use is a Linksys WRT54GL running the Tomato Firmware.

yes that can be a problem. that's a whole other topic dealing with subnets. At some point we should do something on subnets - I will put it on my list.

if you have the second router on anything but the first 3 sets of numbers of the IP (192.168.1.xxx) dont you limit the ability for the downstairs computers to talk and share between the upstairs computers? unless you play with the subnet masks which you didnt go into.