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Originally Posted by culytera
You mean like another router? So basically
minus the bridge mode. It's fine, I'm the only one in the household inconvenienced by this and I can just connect my laptop to the WiFi for when I need to access the OPDS from my phone.
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If you use a 2nd router as WiFi the most important things are:
1)
Disable the DHCP server on it
2) Have it have a static IP that is on same subnet and is unique and excluded from DHCP on the "real router".
3) Don't use any WAN eithernet port or DSL phone port or POTS port for handsets. Only use the LAN ports (usually 3 or 4).
It's a safer thing to share a USB stick or USB HDD if it has such a USB host port (some are only for Mobile modem) than the main router.
Connect it direct to a PC/Laptop (or even tablet via USB OTG adaptor and USB ethernet) to configure via the browser before plugging into your LAN because:
1) Two DHCP servers on same subnet creates problems.
2) It might have the same default IP, or if not it might be on a different subnet and inaccessible on the LAN.
We have an old DLink in one bedroom that adds 3 local LAN ports for his stuff and his own WiFi. It happens to have OpenWRT installed, but the stock firmware would work.
If local WiFi channels are not too congested you can keep the original as a higher speed for laptops & high powered tablets and the fresh one would be adequate even at 54Mbps for an ereader or a phone.
No need to connect the laptop to WiFi. The extra router after configuration plugs into the LAN.
Note WiFi usually uses three channels for higher speed and highest speed uses all of them.