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Re: Question on adding a wireless router (newbie question) Thanks for the input. I purchased a Netgear WNDR3700. I setup the Netgear as my second router, with a static ip of 192.168.1.2 and connected it to Moca Bridge using the LAN ports. I also named the SSID of the netgear wireless the same as the SSID as the actiontec, since my actiontec sends great wireless signal upstairs but lacks downstairs. The netgear is now downstairs connected to the moca bridge. So essentially I am trying to have it so when my wifi devices move throughout the house they can pick up the strongest signal seamless without having to manually connect to the best signal.
Now that I have it setup, my android phone works great and connects seamlessly, my ipod touch works seamlessly and moves between the two different wifi signals. But my Nexus 7 doesn't want to play nice. It finds the strongest signal, then disconnects. Then it reconnects to the strongest signal. Could there be a conflict somewhere? Am I not using the moca bridge and the wireless router correctly? |
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| Just curious how do you verify that the iPod and the android switch to the stronger wifi when you move them around the house? |
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 louistAnd So It GoesPremium
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I also have our actiontec providing MOCA for our DVRs and also acting as the DHCP server and provides wireless services upstairs. It is, as usual, set for 192.168.1.1.
I have a second Wireless router downstairs, connected by ethernet cable to a LAN port on the Actiontec, set to a different wireless channel and given IP address: 192.168.1.2. It has a different SSID. (Both use WPA2 incidentally). On the second Router, the DHCP is disabled (so there is ONLY one DHCP server.).
No problems with this setup. Each client device needs to be set to connect to the two distinctly different SSIDs. (On Windows PC's I do set the Wireless NICs to connect to preferred signals- but I do not recall seeing this setting on my Android or IOS Devices).
Generally speaking, they seem to be connecting to the stronger signal router.
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said by aziz786:Just curious how do you verify that the iPod and the android switch to the stronger wifi when you move them around the house?
I was able to verify the android phone switched by using the Wifi Manager app. With it open on the phone, I moved from upstairs to downstairs and saw that it switched from the upstairs channel 6 to the downstairs channel 11.
For the ipod, I just watched the wifi signal icon and as I moved downstairs the signal got weaker and once I got to downstairs to where the android picked up the stronger signal, the wifi signal icon got stronger.
Louist- I originally had the two routers set up with different SSIDs, but I also installed on the phone and the tablet an app called Best Wifi which auto switched to the stronger signal router. When I did it this route it seemed to work fine.
I just changed the second router to use the SSID of the upstairs router because, from what I had read, that is the "recommended" way of doing it when setting up access points. I'm new to access point setups.  |
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