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What's the point of having another router? (lemmy.austinwadeheller.com)
submitted 1 year ago by livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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I once bought a router to use for my internet when I moved into my new house just to find out that it "wasn't compatible" with Verizon's service. I still have it (because I'm terrible about returning things). Is there any point in keeping it? Is there anything fun or interesting that I could do with it?

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[–] Thomasnotused@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you have anywhere in your home with poor Wi-Fi signal, you could set up the router in bridge mode to effectively act as a range extender. Just make sure to disable DHCP on the 2nd router or it will wreak havoc!

[–] livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A wifi extender would be awesome! Thanks for the suggestion.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Best is actually to connect the two with a cable, otherwise you lose a lot of bandwidth.

[–] livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope it's not too terrible, purely over wifi. Maybe when my son gets older and wants to play games on his own computer, I'll pipe a line over to the other side of the house for him. I don't think his sister is going to care enough about computers to want a direct line to the internet, but if she does then I'll do it for her too.

[–] poVoq@slrpnk.net 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It effectively cuts it by half.

[–] livingcoder@lemmy.austinwadeheller.com 0 points 1 year ago

That makes sense. I just hope that it's good enough for YouTube.

[–] Billy_Gnosis@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I did this with my old router and as others have said it effectively cuts throughput in half. Depending on your usage though it might not be a big deal. I only connected mine so I could get a signal in the front yard. It's fine for surfing the web or watching YouTube