How do I make my spare router pick up the signal from my router?
I want to connect my Dish to the internet by connecting it to my spare wireless router. How do I make my spare pick up the signal from my normal router so I can connect my dish to it?
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1. Generally, most consumer wireless routers are only able to act as an access point (other devices like laptops can connect to them, they don't make a wireless connection to another access point). You may be lucky and actually have one which can be setup as a client or bridge, but it's somewhat unlikely.It sounds like what you are trying to do would require a wireless bridge (or some device for wireless mesh networking which acts as an AP and a client), or would have to have a router which is capable of accepting third party firmware (OpenWRT, dd-wrt, tomato, etc.). Then load one on there and configure it as a wireless client or bridge device.
Otherwise you're looking at a physical connection.
