It’s pretty rare to have a router that connects all your devices across the house with superfast signals like being close to the router itself. Unless you have a little place that you call home, a router does not offer connectivity throughout. Network/No signal issues always persist because you can’t find a router that transmits to the entire house or a place that sits your router conveying signals all over. However, this website can help you do so. ( To add, there is a term for that – wi-fi black spot or dead spot – the areas that can be identified to have little to no network range of the existing wi-fi). Of course, complaining to the service provider is the last thing we all resort to because of a) expenses and b) tantrums.

Here is some advice that you will thank us later for – try extending your wi-fi network. Seems impossible? Or maybe something only the Tech people are capable of doing? We are greatly pleased to inform you that you are wrong! Yes, extending the network is possible and is also not rocket science.

Now, there are multiple ways to do that. If the router you are currently using is too old, you might want to save yourself from all the hassle of changing the router’s settings and reconfiguring it to something new. You might want to go for a new one that could make things easier.

If you haven’t spent enough time with your router and your connection is fairly new, we could be able to tweak the existing network and add a second router to it so that both the routers now work amicably to distribute network all over the house. Either way is going to work; it’s just the choice that you are going to make. In any case, you could read what is ahead to make a better and more informed decision.

Alternative 1: Putting the old one to use.

If you have just changed their router to a new one and still don’t enjoy that promised service, you might want to reconsider doing away with the old tech piece you have.

This method is called defining a new access point for your home internet. This works best if your house is served by Ethernet or has no objection to dangling cables.

So, we can connect the old router to the new one and use the old router to connect to a device. Now we will open the settings option of the old router to check for something called the Access point mode. There is another name for it that networking specialists often use and is called the Bridge mode. You may find the settings by any of these two names.

Now let’s understand what this process does. When we connect the new one to the old router, we change its current IP address and assimilate it to the new one. You can find the old router’s new IP address by looking up the new router’s configuration settings. You should be able to look up the old router’s name under the connected devices lists here.

Next, you can place the router in an open space that does not hide behind any concrete barriers. One point to note here is that whenever any installation is done at home that serves network transmission, it is always advised to install it at an open place than most of the other options available in the house. This is because open spaces allow better signal conveyance and avoid any hindrances that disturb the signals’ strength.

Alternative 2: Use a repeater

This approach involves adding both the routers to the same network and then using one as the slave to the other.

Lastly, we need to give the secondary router an IP address to work on. We select an address within the range of the IP address of the primary router and add it to the secondary one. The final step, just hit save!

Now you could connect both with a cable or tie them wirelessly. You need to check the router’s settings for that. And voila! We are done. Enjoy that net speed, and may you never again have a blind wi-fi spot in the entire house. Just in case you do, you know what to do. Just come back here and follow the guide to get a seamless browsing experience.

Happy surfing!