How To Install Wifi Router Tp-link

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Faustina Bartsch

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Aug 3, 2024, 4:43:15 PM8/3/24

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How to extend range if my router does not have the range extender option?. The thing is I have an old router and a new router. My new router creates problem from time to time but my old one is so old that it works fibe as the old routers are good as the hardware they used before lonf time ago were good. Now a days they use cheap boards and cheap hardwares and people have to suffer for that. The thing is the old router that I got is amazing and stable but the new one has the range extender option which my old router lacks. Even my old router do not have an antenna but my new router has 3 antenna still the signal of the old router is far more good than the new one. So what I am trying to say is that both of my roter is of tp link and I want to use the new router as the bacis line and the old one as a wifi extender. The old one do not have the extender option, so what can I do to make my old router the extender?. I really want to use my old router as an extender as it is so good and I want to connect that router in my room so that have the best speed.

So the place I will be staying in for the foreseeable future is not really big but in my bedroom I get pretty bad wifi signal. This is especially because the 2.4ghz signal of the router gets drowned by the upstairs neighbor's 2.4 signal and the 5ghz signal doesn't reach here because of odd configuration of the walls.

So what I thought I'd do was to get a powerline adapter with wifi. But stupid me didn't realize that the one product I ordered, the TP-LINK TL-PA4010KIT AV600 does not have wifi, only ethernet cable. The ethernet powerlink works if I connect it to my computer, I can even create a hotspot with my laptop wifi card but this is far from ideal since I don't to have my computer tethered all the time.

Instead of going through the hassle of buying the proper model (the TP-LINK Kit Extensor Powerline AV500 TL-WPA4220KIT) and returning the one I bought, I was thinking of getting this wifi router/ap (TP-Link WiFi Router TL-WR840N) and use it as an AP in conjunction with the ethernet powerline adapter I bought. From what I can glean, this is doable, but I just wanted to double check with knowledgeable people. Is this doable? how much of a pain in the a** would it be to set up? Though I'm not afraid of getting my hands dirty with this, I'd rather that the process be not too difficult.

I tried an old huawei router and it wasn't very reliable, connection dropped and speeds were abysmal. As you suggested, will go for an access point later on. I think for video conferencing and downloads the power line with Ethernet cable will do for a while.

My internet comes via a Huawei 5G CPE Pro 2 WiFi6 Dual Band Router, using an EE 5G simcard. This drops out on a frequent basis, and I read one reason is that it's a hardware issue common to the Huawei router and can be resolved by turning off the wifi and using a different router connected via ethernet cable to serve as the wifi router. I've therefore bought a TD-W9970 for this purpose, turned off the Huawei wifi, connected via ethernet etc. Followed the instructions in the manual as per the "already have a modem" section in terms of switching it to Wireless Router mode, but I'm stuck at the last step. The instructions simply end at "click Add to finish this setup", but there's a whole page of options and I'm not sure what I need to have chosen.

I'm not sure exactly which part of the last step is what is blocking me, so these are my queries. Is PPPoE is the right internet connection type for this kind of connection? For the username/password, should I be using those from EE, from Huawei, or from TP-link? I've tried what I can find online for each of these but none works. Basically everything I enter gives me an error code 5656 / VLAN ID already exists.

Instead, after you've switched the Operation Mode of the TP-Link router to "Wireless Router Mode" just set it's Internet Connection Type to "Dynamic IP" and disable "VLAN ID" in case it was enabled by default. Then you should be good to go.

My last suggestion would be to reset the TD-W9970 to factory default settings via the menu "Advanced" -> "System Tools" -> "Backup & Restore" -> [Factory Restore] in the hope that this might clear the error 5656.

I have many smart devices that only connect on 2.4. Is it worth turning on the smart connect feature on the router? Can it cause issues for these devices that only connect on 2.4? I have avoided turning it on to avoid problems. Thanks in advance.

Smart Connect might not do anything for you. The 'main' feature of Smart Connect is that the Router determines what Radio (SSID) the Device will connect to. There are differing implementations of Smart Connect, some do 'load leveling', that is all Radios (dual band or Tri-band Radio's depending on router as well at the Guest Radio's) will get an even number of devices connected. Some just determine the best Radio for the device and will connect to that leaving some radio's having more devices connected than others. Some implementations will also dynamically level the number of devices connected to the Radio's.

The main drawback for me with Smart Connect is that in some cases slower devices can be on the same Radio as faster devices due to how the version of Smart Connect works (not sure how TP-Links is implemented).

I do not use it on my Tri-band router. All 2.4Ghz only devices are manually assigned to the 2.4Ghz SSID, N devices to the slower 5Ghz SSID, and AC devices to the faster 5Ghz SSID. Another vendor router I had would mix N and AC devices on the same SSID and that slowed down the AC devices.

Smart Connect works if you don't care and just want a device to connect and don't worry about performance or have some slowness on the LAN. Otherwise, manually determine what devices connect to is my suggestion.

If the devices are only 2.4Ghz then it should be fine as the smart devices would not be capable of connecting to the 5Ghz. The benefit you would see in enabling smart connect is needing to only connect to one band. However, an issue others have brought up is not being able to connect to a band they wanted since the router determines that.

If you look at the router via a browser, and click on Advanced, Wireless, Statistics, you will see the wireless devices you have and WHICH band they connected too. If ALL are connected to the 2.4Ghz band, well then it sort of implies all your devices are not 802.11 N device (of higher) but 2.4Ghz devices only.

For example, if from my desktop windows 10 now as WIFI connections displays only 1 SSID available, if I try to connect it always connects in 2.4, if I use the TP-LINK WIRELESS CONFIGURATION UTILITY application it displays 2 SSIDs with the same name a 5g and 2.4. If I try to connect directly to 5G and then I go to find what I am actually connected with I see 2.4 and not 5 ... then the 5G connection is as if it were not there and ONLY 2.4 works. Look, I assure you that I have done a thousand different tests and ONLY if I disable SMART CONNECT I return to a normal situation.

If I try to connect directly to 5G and then I go to find what I am actually connected with I see 2.4 and not 5 ... then the 5G connection is as if it were not there and ONLY 2.4 works. Look, I assure you that I have done a thousand different tests and ONLY if I disable SMART CONNECT I return to a normal situation.

I can probably explain that, if I knew the hardware you have for wireless. Like I said, I suspect it is N Speed. N speed will connect to both 2.4 and 5Ghz SSID's. However, not ALL N speed devices are equal. You might want to read this page, -is-the-actual-real-life-speed-of-wireless-374. I've seen N Speed devices with a 150Mbps limit, 300, and 600 as well. A device with a 150 or 300Mbps limit probably would be determined by the router to be a 2.4Ghz device, and hence connect to it. Since it is an N Speed device, it can work on the 5Ghz SSID, but connecting it to a 5Ghz SSID would actually slow down the 5Ghz speed on other faster devices when it was 'working' the connection as the SSID slows down to process its data.

In all honesty, Smart Connect is absolutely useless to me and reading all the comments on the net I know that I am not the only person to have encountered several problems .... strange problems. I just turn it off, that's all.

You might want to look at that link above again. Dated almost a year ago, but that isn't the problem. The link to the Tool is. Not specifically for your router, and it runs on these Operating Systems: WinXP/7/8/8.1. WinXP is not WinX (Windows10) but the original Windows in 2001. Oh, utility Published Date: 2015-01-08. I would not rely on what it tells you.

Sure, many people have problems. Most really don't know it works. Many confuse seeing only one SSID (many people used the same 'form' for the SSID and add 2 or 5 after it so they know which is which) that is the 2.4Ghz one and think they lost the 5Ghz band.

To me, the real value of Smart Connect is for the inexperienced user who doesn't want to manage the devices they have and which band they connect to. Easy way out. Set all devices to connect to the 2.4Ghz band and let the router figure it out.

Yes. I encountered some problem with my Archer C54 and AX1500. I have 100mbps internet speed but there's a time that the connection cuts randomly. It will reconnect within a few seconds but as you play online games, it's really annoying to deal with it. So what I have done was I enabled Smart Connect (on AX1500 only) and as I observed the problem were solved. Not really sure why does it happen as I used AX10(damaged by lightning) before and we don't experienced the sudden drop of wifi connection. Same number of wifi user, same settings, everything is the same. So yeah, it's worth it using smart connect.