How to connect two routers wirelessly?

How to connect two routers wirelessly?
Many people have come across the problem that they are not receiving Wi-Fi signal in their room. If you have a big house and using single Wi-Fi router you are not able to cover entire house with single access point.in this scenario you need second access point to extend your Wi-Fi signal. For that you need Wi-Fi repeater/extender to increase the Wi-Fi signal range. You can also increase the signal using your Wi-Fi router. So, how to connect two routers wirelessly on same network? Don’t worry I will give you step by step instructions.

If you do not have Wi-Fi repeater or extender you can use router as a repeater.
Here I have two TP Link routers.my wan internet line is connected to black one. Black is my primary router. Which is already transmitting the signal.White is my secondary router which i want to use as Wi-Fi extender / repeater.

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So here i am going to connect two Wi-Fi router wirelessly to increase Wi-Fi range to cover my room.so first we will setup the white router or repeater router.
We need to login in this router to setup the Wi-Fi. All the information regarding login is given below the router.

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Turn on the router and connect to WIFI network SSID which is provided. Here it is TP-Link_80FA & connect to the Wi-Fi network using the pin/password provided below on router itself (as shown in above image)
Now tap on the connected Wi-Fi network and find the gateway ip address. Here it is 192.168.0.1.

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Now on browser type this gateway ip address .you will see the login page.to access the Wi-Fi router we need to login with username and password. Which is given on the router itself. (as shown in above image)

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After login first disable the DHCP address, for that go to DHCP Settings, as DHCP addresses will be given by the primary router. Note :-Settings will not take effect until you reboot the router. But don't reboot yet.

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Now go to Wi-Fi and enable the WDS called as wireless distribution system.Scroll down and you will be asked to enter SSID and BSSID of the router to be bridged.
If you don’t know then click on survey. Page will show you all the nearby Wi-Fi network SSID name.Connect to Wi-Fi network you want to bridge or extend.

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Here my primary router Wi-Fi name is Falcon_1.and i want to extend this Wi-Fi network.so click on connect. Also note down the channel number.

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Type the password of primary WiFi network. And select the same channel number of primary WiFi.
You can also change the Wi-Fi SSID name here i am changing it to Falcon_4.and then reboot the router.
If you change the SSID then you will be disconnected from the Wi-FI network and you need to connect to new Wi-Fi SSID name with the same password which we have used earlier while setup.
That’s all we have successfully bridged the two routers wirelessly.Now we will place the repeater router at the place from where we want to increase the Wi-Fi signal.

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