 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosal here So I mentioned in the last couple of weeks setting up this backup internet system and which basically I've set up my ISP router connect that into a 4g TP-Link 4g cellular router and that cellular router is giving me backup connectivity So that when my ISP line goes down as it does from time to time The 4g network is going to kick in and fail over and that allows me to connect basically I've set up my whole network wireless devices Wi-Fi devices onto that TP-Link device And automatically when cellular when ISP goes down we go on to cellular So I had that all wired nicely via a couple of ethernet switches Wi-Fi and I thought my job was done and I could get back to not setting up internet Unfortunately when I purchased that TP-Link cellular router I didn't think to check exactly what kind of a Wi-Fi network it could create and broadcast The reason is I don't use Wi-Fi. I've been using ethernet for many years, but my wife Does use Wi-Fi and she works from home So she was telling me that the Wi-Fi not only was bad It was like worse than when we had our ISP router So I looked into it and then I figured out that okay Well this TP-Link router only creates a 2.4 gigahertz wireless network and that's very liable to interfere in so that made sense Because sometimes the Wi-Fi was strong Sometimes it was weak. So I was trying to think what can I do obviously if you've got it a piece of hardware That can create a 2.4 gigahertz Wi-Fi You can't make it create a 5 gigahertz because the antennas are in the in the hardware What it can do is what it can do So what I was looking at instead was different options So I came across two Approaches that I could use one was using another router and putting a third router onto a ethernet switch and just using that router for Wi-Fi Now that router would have to support access point mode sometimes called bridging mode I think they're quite similar So I looked at a couple of those devices, but the best one seemed to be what are called access points and TP-Link has range extenders that also has access point mode and routers that also have access point mode It seemed like getting another router was overkill. So what he did was went down to my local tech store My choice of products was very limited because we're on the eve of a major public holiday We're in based so it was kind of like what they had in stock was what I could use But I needed to sort this out today so that my wife could get work done from home So I've just set up the network and apparently Everything is good The Wi-Fi network is good. So let me just show you what I did and it's using a device called the r e 200 so here is the unbeautiful looking networking that I've set up here and Let me just explain what you are looking at here. So I have my ISP writer It's going land to one into the TL MR 100. That's the 4g writer from TP-Link So that's doing its failover and setting up the network and what I did then is put an ethernet switch out of that TP-Link router because there was there's only one there's only two Networking ports. So if you're using one for that if you're using one for one, you've only got one port for LAN So I put out a switch and then from the switch. I've wired in this device Which is the r e 200. It's primarily marketed as a range extender and that's it's That's it's like normal use that you would basically Connect this to an existing Wi-Fi network and it would just you know Repeat and strengthen the network, but you can use it as an access point It has a P mode and the good news is I got it set up now when I researched this yesterday I found on the TP-Link forums some guy saying he couldn't get it set up but and then an official TP-Link resource saying you could totally use this range extender in AP mode and as he said I have it set up and it's working just fine. So that's my networking now This is going into the ISPs going into the TL MR 100. We actually have three routers now in sequence and From the ethernet switch. Well, if you count the ethernet switch We've got four daisy change hardware devices and from ethernet switch The that there's an ethernet connection from that switch going into the re 200 and that is broadcasting out to Wi-Fi networks, and it's getting me the 5 gigahertz network that I couldn't achieve with my TL MR 100 because it doesn't have hardware for that So this is the just a kind of a schematic of the network that I've just described I'm gonna just kind of glance over this because it's pretty much same the same info I've just described ISP writer goes into the TP-Link TP-Link to an ethernet switch From the ethernet switch out to the re 200 Wired clients are coming off the ethernet switch. That's my desktop and my NAS and then two wireless networks coming off that TP-Link Extender slash access point and from those two Wi-Fi networks were connecting all the wireless clients at home Here's what I had to do basically so after plugging it into the wall I hooked it up via no, I connected to it firstly by ethernet from a laptop because I figured that if I did the connection to The ethernet switch that that would be potentially problematic and I wouldn't be able to get to the web interface So to play it safe I actually firstly connected to its default IP address using a laptop ethernet cabling patched into the re 200 and Just connected to it directly and then change the mode That's in the top right of the screen as you can see here There's a little mode switch and change that out of its default mode Which is as a repeater and change it into access point mode and as it says here transforms your existing wired network to a wireless network, which is exactly what I wanted to do except that the wired network was actually a extension of another wire network and they're it was able to create a wireless network, but Whatever technical points, but that was the correct thing the correct mode then the device rebooted and then basically so here's how it looks now from the embedded web server page on the cellular router, so it picks up the Re 200 as a wired client because it's connected Via ethernet and really off that router even though it's connecting via a switch and what he did then was Firstly so after I got this running and how did I how to get this running? I basically went into the embedded web server on the re 200 and I just follow the usual steps to set up a wireless network 5 gigahertz and 2.4 gigahertz and then I took down the network on The TP link because for interference purposes, you don't want to have there's no point having you know the wireless network coming off this and the And the TP link running in AP mode So I took that one down so now my wireless networks are just coming off the wireless extender slash access point I also then reserved an IP address. I added the IP of the Access point as a reserved address so to do that go into advanced settings and under network click go into LAN settings and You can add if you click on add there It'll show what devices are available on your network by MAC address and then I just added That local IP address as a reserved IP For the access point. I don't think there was a need to do that But I figured that it would be worth it because just so that the access points web admin address remains on a stable URL and Finally, I put up the network and there were good So just to say that basically this can be done I don't want to say don't believe everything you read on that you read on the internet But I created a thread yesterday on reddit and I was like what can I do? I have this cellular router and it's only giving me 2.4 gigahertz and I want to create a 5 gigahertz network So watch it. I buy it could I put on another router or could I put on an access point and like half the people were like A few people are like yeah Just buy an access point or buy a router and then a few people were like you absolutely It'll never it won't work and setting up multiple routers and so Just just be careful who you take advice from I was pretty sure that this was going to work and at the end of the day It worked absolutely perfectly and now I've gone ahead and connected all my wireless devices We've two wireless printers on the network. I've basically attached all those to the access points Wi-Fi network move those over from the previous Wi-Fi network, which was on the On the cellular They're all working. I can print from my desktop Which is on ethernet and I can print directly to the wireless printer, which is coming off the access point I don't have Wi-Fi on my desktop at all. It's all working over the same local network just as it should and It's good and the 5 gigahertz network is apparently much better than the 2.4 gigahertz that we had from the cellular router So the other stakeholder in this network is is happy. So all is good So just wanted to do this video demonstrating how we got this set up if you have bought yourself a router that Is only broadcasting on 2.4 gigahertz, but it's passing through it's already passing through connectivity And you're not sure can you use something like a TP link range extender or access point to bring out Another wireless network and especially a 5 gigahertz network just to say that I Managed to do so using this setup using two TP link routers on the back of an ISP router and Networking everything together and it's working just fine and the TP links software I have to say it's really easy to work with really easy to change mode Really logical the schematics are good So I think TP links TP link has has its critics for consumer networking software But I found all the devices I bought so far with it easy to work with with the exception of the load balancer which The cellular writer wouldn't work in bridging mode. That's the only trouble I've had so far Anyway, hope that video was useful if you'd like to get more videos from me about home networking tech Linux All other manner of topics, please feel free to subscribe to this channel