Can I use two routers?

Question

We have a 4 story house with me in the basement (1) and the router on the 3rd. Wireless signal is crap anyway but down in my room due to fire regulations the ceiling has extra fireproof layers in it which makes the signal even worse.

My mum will not let me run a ethernet cable from the router to my room plus one that long would cost a fortune anyway so please this is NOT an option.

I have a phone line socket in my room (basement) so is it possible to connect a hub or something from this socket in my room as well as the 3rd floor so I can get better signal and use ethernet cables or will this confuse the DSL coming in my house?

Answer 1

you could get a couple wireless access points that support wds, this means they only need to be plugged into power and they relay your signal back to your router. This could boost the signal to your room. It will be slower though, as it bottlenecks the connection.
Better off buying a roll of cat5 cable and making the cable yourself, it works out about 15c/foot

Answer 2

As Rule stated, except how to actually do it. There are 2 ways. The first is to tier it, so one router's WAN side is hooked to the LAN side of a main router. But an easier way is to connect the switch ports together with a cable. Most routers support MDI-X which autodetects cable types, but if your ethernet doesn't light up you will need a cross over cable. Since these are both dlinks, most likely MDI-X will work. So the "main" router would have it's WrAN side hooked up to the cable modem, and DHCP enabled, etc. running as normal. The second router would NOT have anything on the WAN side, and be configured as an Access Point or AP. The switch ports would be connected together. The AP router would have DHCP turned off. Some routers have a configuration mode for Access Point, or you can google it. Once again, only the "second" router runs in AP mode. So the switches are tied together, only one DHCP is running, it is like having 1 router broadcasting 2 wifi networks.

Answer 3

maybe you can try wireless powerline router - The Wireless Powerline Router removes additional costs in network cabling by using existing power lines in your home

Answer 4

It probably would not work. ISPs typically assign one IP address per household. What would work is a Wifi extender. You can pick one up fairly reasonably

One type [there are others]
http://www.jiwire.com/netgear-range-extender-WGXB102-product-review-1.htm

Answer 5

Yes, you can use two routers.