Help appreciated with Ethernet cable / Second router

Ray1000 said:
Thank you FM,
I understand what your saying about a switch but can a second router be used as a switch and a wifi extender ?
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Yes! But ensure the second repurposed router is set to have a different IP to the main one, also turn it's DHCP to off. Connect one LAN port of the main router, to a port on the repurposed one.

That means only one of the router's issuing network IP's, and so no clashes.

That will give you three spare ports at the main router, three at your second one, and two wifi access ports. Or add a third, the same, and you three more ports, and a third wifi access port.
 
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Thank you, will the signal strength from the second router be much less than direct from the face plate?
 
Yeah, they usually can; you’d have to hard-wire (run Ethernet to) them and change settings on them to have that happen.

What brand / model do you have as spares
 
Well, I got one of these things
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Plugged it in yesterday. Didn't see any improvement yesterday, upstairs speed check was about 23 MB yesterday.

The tablet ran flat overnight. After restarting I ran speed check and it was 120 which I thought satisfactory.

Tried again just now and it is down to 42.

Adequate but I don't know why it's dropped.
 
JohnD said:
Well, I got one of these things
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Plugged it in yesterday. Didn't see any improvement yesterday, upstairs speed check was about 23 MB yesterday.

The tablet ran flat overnight. After restarting I ran speed check and it was 120 which I thought satisfactory.

Tried again just now and it is down to 42.

Adequate but I don't know why it's dropped.
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Is that a ubiquiti repeater ?

It needs to be showing blue to be operational
 
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