[TriLUG] Using my second router as repeater

[Bill Farrow]

On Wed, Jul 17, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Michael Alan Dorman
<mdorman at ironicdesign.com> wrote:
> It sounds like what you're looking for is support for WDS.

Wireless Distribution System (WDS) works by having a wireless
router/access point operate as a repeater, receiving packets and then
retransmitting them to the destination host.  Don't expect great
performance.

---[modem]----[wifi router]  ~ ~ ~ ~ [wifi WDS]  ~ ~ ~ ~ [laptop]

The other way is to connect two wifi routers by a physical cat5e
cable, connecting them LAN port to LAN port.  On the "repeater" node,
give it a static IP, and disable DHCP, DNS, NTP etc (turn it into a
AP).

---[modem]----[wifi router]-------------[wifi AP]  ~ ~ ~ ~ [laptop]

Bill