A Few Tips Regarding How To Connect Two Wireless Routers
If you want to connect to the Internet and even share a connection among several personal computers connected to a home network you must also find out whether it is possible to connect two wireless routers and if so, how to go about connecting two wireless routers.
Certainly, you will want to add wireless connectivity to your home network if you own a laptop because then you can use your laptop within a certain geographical area without needing to connect the laptop to the modem with wires. Even if you want to connect your PC without wires and then the wireless routers can play an important part.
Simplest Solution
The simplest hardware solution that presents it would be to connect two wireless routers with one router placed with a PC connected to a wired network while the other router is used to connect the personal computer wirelessly. When you do this and connect two wireless routers it is known as an ad hoc wireless network which is well suited for connecting two personal computers.
On the other hand, if you need to connect (wirelessly) more than two PCs and then you will also need an Access Point (AP) that must be wireless or even use a broadband router that is wireless-enabled.
With these items of hardware, you can connect two wireless routers in so many different ways that it would be very difficult to explain all the possible permutations and combinations. Suffice to say that it is possible to use a simple home networking setup that has fully wired as well as wireless capabilities and also use a broadband router that has at least four Ethernet ports as well as integrated wireless connectivity.
A more complicated way of connect two wireless routers is to use a single port broadband router which must be connected to four or even eight port 100 MBps switch that in turn must be connected to a wireless AP.
The minimum cost in terms of money that you will spend in order to connect two wireless routers would be about five hundred dollars which would mean spending in the range of at least one hundred and fifty dollars for a couple of wireless adapters, and another two hundred dollars for a wireless AP plus fifty to hundred dollars for a wireless NIC.
Lastly, when connecting two wireless routers you must also ensure that the configuration is absolutely secure and to prevent unauthorized access you will have to look beyond Wired Equivalency Privacy standard that has thus far proved to be less than successful.
