hooking up 2 routers on the same network wirelessly

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Kaindamonsta wrote:

 

I am having trouble hooking up my routers on the same network. I just bought a new house and i am now having dead spots down stairs.

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Can you explain what you want to do?

Buy new hardware? Adapt something you already own?

The R6250 in our footer is a run of the m ill router from about seven years ago. You can buy a wireless access point to make the wifi go further, or you could invest in a new Mesh system that would cover the whole place.

It is a bad idea to put two routers in one network.

Two routers on your network can cause headaches. For example, you can end up with local address problems. Among other things, the other router can misdirect addresses that the Netgear router usually handles, such as routerlogin.net or the usual IP address for a router, 192.168.1.1.

This explains some of the other drawbacks.

What is Double NAT? | Answer | NETGEAR Support

Unless you have specific reasons for using two routers – to create two separate networks for example – it is often easier to use just one router and then to set up the second router as a wifi access point. Netgear advises this, as does just about every site you will visit.

But that has its own drawbacks:

Disabled Features on the Router when set to AP Mode | Answer | NETGEAR Support

Unlike many routers, the R6250 does support "Bridge Mode".

Manuals are always a good place to start.

Visit the support pages:

Support | NETGEAR

Feed in your model number and check the documentation for your hardware.

Check the section in the manual  Set up the Router in Bridge Mode