Build your home network on a budget part 4 - extend your Wi-fi coverage with a second access point

[@renjialexander188]

The simplest and best explanation of this confusing topic I have seen after watching numerous videos on the subject!

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thank you very much

[@memorylanezz]

Great explanation. Very useful for me as I am looking at a way of making a seamless WiFi roaming network around my two story house. Lot to learn and thanks a ton for such wonderful video.

[@ed-liem]

Thank you Marc. Easy to understand for non tech person like me. This is what I need for my 1st floor and 2nd floor instead of buying expensive mesh wifi. I have older routers which I can use for access points. I like the roaming without having 2 different SSID. Any video instruction how to connect and configure the two access points routers (bridging)?

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi Edwin - if you check my channel page kzbin.info there's loads of videos on that (Cheap Wifi MEsh alternative) and the like. However, they all use OpenWrt. I believe what you're after is using stock firmware?

[@basrieter]

Great videos on OpenWRT. Question I have for dumb-AP's is how to get hostnames in the WIFI connected devices overview on those dumb access-points.

[@OneMarcFifty]

The first step is to fill the arp cache of the AP by using something like fping -g 192.168.1.0/24 (Your interfaces need IPv4 addresses for this). the next step is to get name resolution on the AP sorted. Usually it's messed up if you haven't disabled dnsmasq on the AP. Try ssh'ing into the AP, then do nslookup of a host name (should come back with the IP) and then of an IP (should come back with the hostname). If it doesn't, make sure the "use DNS as advertised" check box is ticked on the advanced tab of the interfaces.

[@welliopedrodelima4782]

Hello how are you? Excellent video, thank you so much for sharing your knowledge with us. I'm sorry, I know the question doesn't have much to do with the topic of the video, but I'm having a lot of trouble getting rclone to automatically mount a GoogleDrive account at boot and restart, using openwrt. You can make a video helping. Thanks

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi, many thanks for the feedback! you can add whatever script you want into the /etc/rc.local file. That will be executed at boot time. So you might add the rclone command in there. However - if you want to mount a fuse filesystem with rclone, I have found that to not be too stable. I prefer to use rclone "natively", i.e. as a better rsync really

[@DilnuwanAmaraweera]

I go through so many videos. most of the videos a superb. thank you

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thank you very much!

[@jefvanloock1563]

Hi marc, tx for the videos! Could you inform me what would be interesting to use if I want to extend my wifi network to the garden from a cabled point in the house. I've tried a zyxel ax50 acces point but the result is unstable. Weirdly 2.4 GHz channels are the most unstable. Kind regards, Jozef

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi Jozef, that would depend on a couple of factors (size of the garden, wifi clients, channels used in the neighborhood, etc). Maybe you want to join the discord server and discuss it with the folks there?

[@whitewolf6730]

Thank you! Love your simple explanation of things!

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi, many thanks for your feedback !

[@rangkara7201]

This video should have more views

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thank you Rangkara ;-)

[@CzAerox]

Great video! I bought two same routers thinking the mesh option would work 😅but no it didn't. I am wondering if my router Archer C7 has such an option as bridging, I have tried this once, I have enabled Access Point mode same as if I connect a new wifi router to my network, both with the same name. I have also disabled DHCP, the result was not great... I don't know if the problem was because my 2.4 and 5Ghz wifi have the same SSID or not. There is an option to make 2.4 and 5 GHz different names maybe it would work that way.

[@OneMarcFifty]

Keep in mind that you need to disable the DHCP _SERVER_ on the 2nd access point (LAN side), connect the cable from your main router to the LAN side of the AP and also give it an address in your 1st router's IP range. I have 2.4GHz and 5GHz on the same name and pass. But you _can_ name them differently. Tomorrow's video will cover these steps on an Archer C7 but with OpenWrt ;-)

[@CzAerox]

@@OneMarcFifty Oh, nice! I wanted to flash my Archer with OpenWRT for a long time but have never done that. So I will probably do that now and will use your comming tutorial for this budget “mesh”. thanks !

[@OneMarcFifty]

It‘s planned for monday 5pm Berlin time ;-)

[@mbessle5102]

So we don't need to look for fast roaming support or any other 802.11 standards (r, v, k, etc)? I wasn't aware of the roaming aggressiveness feature, and most other things I read imply your device will still refuse to switch.

[@OneMarcFifty]

Keep in mind that the video is quite old. Modern devices do support 802.11r, v and k.

[@raraSoyang]

Hi Marc, Thanks for the shared info. Can help to advice how do I know if there is something wrong with the WIFI-AP. We have 4 APs in the company. It is connected to local ISP + modem and router setup. Then the internet connection is shared to 4 APs as WIFI signals to the whole company. What happens was, the connection keeps flapping eventhough the signal is strong. I am not well verse and really need your advice from someone who is expert and willing to share knowledge. Appreaciates your sharing, thanks in advance! :)

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi, there can be many reasons for this - we would need to analyze a couple of things from the basics (channel, antenna, signal strength, coverage overlap) up - you could join the discord server and open a thread in the forum there.

[@matgggg55]

Your videos are helping me a lot!

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi Mathew - many thanks ! I am glad you like them ;-)

[@RifatErdemSahin]

March Great video are you using a prompter ?

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thank you Erdem, yes I am using a teleprompter

[@RifatErdemSahin]

@@OneMarcFifty i felt the first videos you were more relaxed... Getting used to prompter takes time... i use the words from the prompter and improvise more and that helps me relax.

[@OneMarcFifty]

You know it‘s not so much the prompter - I am using it for a long time and also I recorded episodes 2,3,4 in a row. I assume it might have been the dog barking or someone in the house making noise, forcing me to re-record multiple times 😉

[@RifatErdemSahin]

@@OneMarcFifty its not so easy to record at home. I rented a garage for recording purpose. and using batteries for lights and cameras

[@oscarcam9804]

Thanks by the information

[@OneMarcFifty]

You're welcome ;-)

[@MrDudunorris]

Where's the UPS video? Very Nice videos Marc!

[@OneMarcFifty]

It will come ;-) Need a summer vacation in order to deliver all the stuff that I promised ;-)

[@redchilliesabhi1788]

useful tips good luck

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thank you very much!

[@MrRickyy88]

I am using AT&A as my ISP. Then I get Netgear EX7000 and Netgear 7300 as the extenders. When I do ‘ipconfig /all’, I didn’t see either of them. I meant to extend the signal of EX7300 and again theEX7000. It does not work. Why?

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi - hard to answer without more detail. You may want to join the discord server and give more details there ?

[@micoleal7098]

Top notch tutorial Thanks

[@OneMarcFifty]

Glad you liked it! Many thanks !

[@cosolote]

Very clear and smart

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thank you very much !

[@rajashekarp7697]

Awesome!!

[@OneMarcFifty]

thank you !

[@CrazyMineCuber]

Whats the differrence between wifi mesh and the standardised protocoll WDS?

[@OneMarcFifty]

Meshes are more flexible than WDS. In a true wireless mesh you might have two, three or even four wireless hops before you get to a wired point. In WDS you would typically (pretty much like in a repeater, but without the "halfing the bandwidth" issue) only have one hop. If you plan for one hop in Mesh than there is no apparent difference seen from the outside. The disadvantage of meshing is that you might have vendor lock in.

[@OneMarcFifty]

PS - unless you REALLY can‘t run a cable or you want to provide Wi-fi to a whole neighborhood or city then very few cases would really REQUIRE a mesh...

[@CrazyMineCuber]

@@OneMarcFifty Can't you link as many router as you would want with WDS?

[@OneMarcFifty]

@@CrazyMineCuber Yes I believe you can. You know what, I'll examine more on the subject and maybe make a video on it - I have just published the 2nd access point video today but you have just revived my interest in this. Maybe I'll stuff an additional Wifi adapter into a router and build a WDS or 802.11s infrastructure, maybe with directional antennas between the APs etc.. So far I was quite focused on cable. Are you using WDS ? Which hardware ?

[@hir3npatel]

@@OneMarcFifty Or a powerline adapter if cable can't be done.

[@TheCupcakefury]

Love the videos

[@OneMarcFifty]

Thanks you very much ! ;-)

[@sokeaeam7761]

can you show how to create proxy with 4g modem ?

[@OneMarcFifty]

Hi, what type of proxy are you looking for - what’s the use case?

[@ВасилийДорогой-е1я]

Марк привет. Есть дешёвый роутер, Netis N2 он поддерживает EasyMesh. 4 порта со скоростью 1000мбит wi fi b/g/n/ac. Он стоит 15$

[@OneMarcFifty]

Привет Васили, я этого не знал, спасибо за подсказку.