Help: 2 Router 1 ISP

[LorotoaM]

I have too many of my friends/relatives connecting to my router and it is starting to slow down. May I know how to set up 2 routers so that the main router doesn't get all of the stress ? 

[Eigenvektor]

You can only connect one router to your ISP. While you can place a second router behind the first one, all of its traffic will still need to go through the first router to go out over the internet. If the router is too slow for its job, you're better of replacing it with a faster one (if possible/supported by your ISP), rather then getting a second one.

[LorotoaM]

15 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

You can only connect one router to your ISP. While you can place a second router behind the first one, all of its traffic will still need to go through the first router to go out over the internet. If the router is too slow for its job, you're better of replacing it with a faster one (if possible/supported by your ISP), rather then getting a second one.

Oh, I thought I could use two router and balance the load between the two. Thank you for your reply. My ISP doesn't support changing routers, but if I make the ISP router into bridge mode does this get similar result to changing it with another router?

[Splarkszter]

Bridge mode(if supported) just passes all the data to the other router so the other router does the processing and routing, so getting a more powerful one should help, asus makes good routers with good software. I do recommend enabling quality of service(QoS) first and see if it improves, also try limiting bandwinth per device (if supported).

If you share the password a lot you may want to enable a MAC whitelist(any Router should support that) to avoid people stealing your wifi.

[LIGISTX]

18 minutes ago, LorotoaM said:

Oh, I thought I could use two router and balance the load between the two. Thank you for your reply. My ISP doesn't support changing routers, but if I make the ISP router into bridge mode does this get similar result to changing it with another router?

The router likely isn’t the issue, if you have to many people all watching videos or streaming music, that’s the issue. The router likely isn’t slowing down due to to many connections, huge internet likely isn’t fast enough to actually support everyone connected. Adding a second router won’t help.