Can connecting many routers cause problems?

[hv0k]

Hello, LLT members,

 

Heres what I'm trying to do, but let me explain my situation...

 

I live in a 2 story Villa, and we have 2 different routers located on each floor, and so I have to change my Wifi each time I move up and down floors, so does my family...

 so I want to buy a new router, a high-end one, and just have it to my own, but will that affect the internet signal or strength? 

 

one more question. I only have one cable that connects the upstairs router to the modem, how can I connect two routers using 1 cable? 

 

Regards. 

[Nicnac]

One more AP shouldn't affect your connecting but what might are too many routers sending on the same band. you can easily change that in your router's configs though and most modern ones have a tool that does it automatically for you. Concerning your second question you can daisy-chain APs by just connecting another one to a previous one's Ethernet outlets.

[hv0k]

3 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

One more AP shouldn't affect your connecting but what might are too many routers sending on the same band. you can easily change that in your router's configs though and most modern ones have a tool that does it automatically for you. Concerning your second question you can daisy-chain APs by just connecting another one to a previous one's Ethernet outlets.

Could you elaborate more on that?

 

recommend me a good router that isnt very expensive but is really good and has good features. 

also, I will be mostly using ethernet for this router and minimal Wifi.

 

Thanks

[Nicnac]

I don't really have much experience with different routers. We re using an Asus RT-AC1200G+ at home which works perfectly fine but you can certainly find something cheaper that does the job just as well. I've had netgear routers for some time and they are cheap and work well but both of them failed after about 4 years. You might want to wait for someone with more networking experience to weigh in on this and recommend a certain model.

[hv0k]

3 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

I don't really have much experience with different routers. We re using an Asus RT-AC1200G+ at home which works perfectly fine but you can certainly find something cheaper that does the job just as well. I've had netgear routers for some time and they are cheap and work well but both of them failed after about 4 years. You might want to wait for someone with more networking experience to weigh in on this and recommend a certain model.

 

 

Thanks so much for your input though

[jnic]

as long as you don't have more than 1 DHCP server running on each subnet you will be fine 

[jnic]

do you want your router to be a hole separate network from the rest of your family or do you just want another access point?

[hv0k]

7 hours ago, jnic said:

do you want your router to be a hole separate network from the rest of your family or do you just want another access point?

Its just going to be another access point that will only be used by me, like how when I can connect my chromecast and people be able to see what i see? i dont want them to be able to see that so i will buy a new router and connect it to my modem. and only use it alone.

[Guest]

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure if you make all the routers work on the same network, the connection would work a lot better. 

 

If this isn't possible, (or not wanted) then I leave it up to the experts. 

[hv0k]

3 hours ago, fpo said:

I'm not an expert, but I'm pretty sure if you make all the routers work on the same network, the connection would work a lot better. 

 

If this isn't possible, (or not wanted) then I leave it up to the experts. 

Yeah Im trying to get an expert input on this 

[jnic]

to do what i think your wanting

decided which one you wan to do all the routing (DHCP, NAT, DNS)

configure that one the way you need 

now with the rest of your routers configure each one individually, and disable DHCP on them and when assigning them an ip address make sure its in the same subnet as the first router 

so if your first router you configured, IP address was 192.168.1.1 make all the access points 192.168.1.x

 

that will give you access points throughout your house and have one acting as the router