Using Huawei HG659 as a booster/repeater ?

[Lucius Qtr]

I have an ASUS RT-AC66U connect as my primary router but then there are some places in my house where there are no signals of it so I decide to use the huawei router as a repeater. Searched Google but can't find a proper solution for it. Plus I think the huawei router comes with the bridge mode function I just don't know how to use it.
Will it work if I connect a LAN wire to my primary router's(Asus) client port and connect the other end to the WAN port of huawei router. Will it send signals ? If no then any other way to make huawei hg659 as a repeater ???

 

[aldan]

if its anything like the dlink i just did you have to connect both the cable from the other router/modem and the cable from the computer to the lan ports on the huawei.to set it up you have to have the cable from your other router unplugged with just the computer connected the your huawei.not sure after there but there are some wireless settings to change and a password to set up.have you tried googling your router for directions on how to set up a wireless access point?

 

[bill001g]

You likely can get it to work that way but that is router behind router and it will sometime cause issues. The term you should be using for a "repeater" attached via a cable is better called a AP. Some routers have that as a feature but you can pretty much use any router by cabling to the lan and disabling the dhcp. You will find more data than you care to read if you search "how to use router as ap"

 

[George Phillips]

All wireless routers have the "AP mode". You will need to get into the configuration web interface of the Huawei HG659 router, and configure it to just as an AP. From there, you could try to assign the Huawei HG659 a new network that it will be in charge of to issue IP addresses or you could also assign half of what existing IP address pool managed by ASUS router that will also need to be reconfigured to exclude IP addresses for Huawei HG659.

If both routers are connected through a network cable, you will also want to make sure that two wireless routers won't use the same wi-fi frequency or wi-fi bands that will cause interference.