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Old 06-17-2015   #10
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Re: Home wifi help

Well here's what I've done so far. So the way my house was setup is I was using 2 of those powerline adapters. I had one by the modem in the basement obviously, that was plugged into the modem. The other one I had upstairs in my office plugged into my main computer. I've had it that way for awhile basically just to get my computer off the wifi. So what I just did was unplug my computer from the powerline adapter, and plug the Belkin into it. The plugged my computer into the Belkin since it's a switch. So my computer is still "plugged in" and not on the wifi. The Belking I just setup a 2nd wifi like Andrew had mentioned, same SSID but I added "_UP" to the end.

So that's working great so far if I just change my upstairs stuff to be on that network. Next step will be to try like that link said, and assign the exact same SSID on the Belkin as the modem. See if that works and things transition seamlessly upstairs and downstairs between the identical networks.

Also Peter, the Belkin I don't see a bridge option. I do see an "access point" option, which then makes me enter in a specific IP address. So far I've left that option disabled.

One other thing, the modem has this WDS tab where it looks like I can put the MAC address of a "remote" device in, I can select whether its a "AP Client Station" or "Repeater" and then give it a name. So that's interesting. But I suppose if the Belkin itself can't be a repeater, than that's useless.
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