Connection dropping out

[Justgame32]

Hey yall ! I'm nowhere near a Network engineer, but i try my best to keep my house network working. My main router (dir-859)  is a located at the opposing end of my house, so connection in the kitchen is less than ideal (3mbps instead of the 40 i get at my desk). I tried fixing that issue with a Second router (dir-655) under the kitchen floor. I wired it up to the primary with cat 6, and follow basic instructions to use it basically as a wifi extender. However results are less than worth it, i get maybe 10mbps in the kitchen and  the internet connection keeps dropping out (i can still access the router's ip settings, but no internet)... Anyone have had this problem and/or useful tips on how to fix it ? 

 

Thanks in Advance ! 

Any questions just let me know !

[beanhubbleday]

Plugged form LAN on Primary router into WAN on secondary router?

[Justgame32]

9 minutes ago, beanhubbleday said:

Plugged form LAN on Primary router into WAN on secondary router?

Lan to Lan

[Justgame32]

I'm guessing my config on the secondary is the problem, because when i disable it everything else works fine

[beanhubbleday]

59 minutes ago, Justgame32 said:

Lan to Lan

Need to go Lan to WAN

[Naterr]

So, you bridged the two routers together and they work, correct? You're just not getting the speeds you desire?

[cole0622]

Are the ssids the same? and different WiFi channels. also dhcp is not running on the second router is it

[Justgame32]

2 minutes ago, cole0622 said:

Are the ssids the same? and different WiFi channels. also dhcp is not running on the second router is it

Same ssid, different wifi channels, dhcp disabled

[Justgame32]

16 minutes ago, Naterr said:

So, you bridged the two routers together and they work, correct? You're just not getting the speeds you desire?

I get max 6 out of both now.. and nothing after a couple seconds

[cole0622]

6 minutes ago, Justgame32 said:

Same ssid, different wifi channels, dhcp disabled

is signal strength good? also have you looked to see if there's a device pulling a lot of bandwidth?

[Naterr]

I would look and see, I don't know particularly how, but see what devices are sucking the bandwidth. 

[cole0622]

15 minutes ago, Naterr said:

I would look and see, I don't know particularly how, but see what devices are sucking the bandwidth. 

As far as to how one simple way is to use windows resource monitor to see its throughput if there is a pc on the network since they are the ones commonly sucking bandwidth, additionally some routers will show throughput of connected devices in settings.