Odd Wifi connection behaviour

[scyllanick]

Hi.
I have a home network with 2 identical wireless Tenda routers (which are wired together) and they are set up as a "repeater" scenario whereby they both have the same SSID but different channels.
It works perfectly with 1 small exception:
My PC which has a Netgear USB wireless adapter keeps switching its connection to the "far" router when I have the primary one about 20 feet away. the far one has a 10% signal strength as it is on the other side of the house.
I have tried changing the profile in Netgear's settings but it is not working. I have since reinstalled the Netgear wireless device and my PC seems to now be connecting "natively" and without running the Netgear management software. It worked fine for a day or so but is now doing the same thing.
I would prefer to not have to isolate the connection by MAC address if possible.
Any suggestions?

 

[postman81]

Log in to the router you want to use. Find the MAC address of that wireless adapter and give it a static IP address. Also (very important!) make sure the the IP ranges are different on the routers. For example :192.168.1.(50-100) and 192.168.2.(2-49).

 

[scyllanick]

Log in to the router you want to use. Find the MAC address of that wireless adapter and give it a static IP address. Also (very important!) make sure the the IP ranges are different on the routers. For example :192.168.1.(50-100) and 192.168.2.(2-49).

Thanks

I will give this a try a bit later on.
much appreciated!