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In my house, I have the following setup:
Ground floor: My ISP's wireless router and an 8-port switch. For wireless communication I use the ISP's Wifi and the 8-port switch is used for wired rj45 sockets around the house.
1st Floor: I have a TP-LINK TL-WR740N Wireless Lite N Router 150 MBps which I connected to a socket and have a PC connect with wire on it and also used for Wifi. The Wifi network I setup on the 1st floor is different than the one on the ground floor (2 routers).
At the first floor I have the problem that in other bedrooms far from the router the Wifi signal (either gets lost) or it's very low. So I bought a TP-LINK TL-WA701ND Wireless N Access Point 150MBps which I configured as universal repeater.
1st issue: The access point supports only WEP encryption when used as repeater/universal repeater so I changed the wifi of the router to WEP with ASCII with 128bit character length and established the connection.
2nd issue: The most important now is that even though the Wifi signal in the bedroom with the AP is full, when I switch off the wifi of the iPad and back on, it is not connecting to the internet. Yesterday I noticed that it was giving me the ethernet card IP (169.…). I went close to the router with the iPhone, got connected and when came back to the room with the AP it was working but the iPad is not working.
Can I fix this without having to buy any other hardware?
Thanks for the reply To let you know, the DHCP is on on the TL-WA701ND but the DHCP is disabled on the Access Point. What is the purpose of the DHCP server on the AP? It's purpose is to provide client (ipad, laptops, computers) with IP addressess or will it be changing the IP address on the AP? Should i enable DHCP on the AP? Repeating my self, DHCP is enabled only on the router on the ground floor – None – 2013-01-22T18:42:14.147
@AndreoyKyriakos You don't need to have several DHCP servers, just having one is fine, although you could have one per Wifi router to speed things a little (so the device doesn't need to ask the ground router if it connects to the 1st floor). As for the AP, if its in repeater mode, it doesn't have IP. It just acts as a range extender of the Wifi in the first floor. – Peter – 2013-01-23T09:24:17.460