Connection TP-Link TL-WR740N to another cable router

Hello, I have a thing like this. I have a friend who lives on the floor above me has a router, from which I am actually connected to the Internet. That is to me in the apartment comes only cable, the Internet cable, which is directly connected to the system.

So from, I have a router TP-Link TL-WR740N to be exact. It naturally has built-in wi-fi. So, you can somehow connect it to the network cable and from it to the computer, but so that it gives out wi-fi. Like a peripheral device on the way to the system, with an access point WI-Fi. I dug dig no way do not understand how, if you can at all please advise.

Answer

Hello. In your case, everything should work without problems, provided that the router TP-Link TL-WR740N working, and from the side of the router friend there are no restrictions. Maybe there he has bound for you IP-address to MAC-address of your computer. It gives you a static address. You have not entered any settings on your computer? Did you just connect the cable from the router on the second floor and everything worked?

In any case, first reset your TP-Link TL-WR740N.

Next, in TP-Link TL-WR740N settings change its IP-address (to exclude a conflict with your friend’s router). In the Network section – Local Area Network (LAN). You can change the last digit. Roughly like this:

Changing the IP address on TP-Link TL-WR740N

Save the settings and reboot the router. In the future you will enter the settings at this address.

Further in the WAN-port (it is most likely blue) connect the Internet cable from another router. This way we will connect TP-Link TL-WR740N with another router.

The WAN (internet) LED on the router should be blinking.

Your TL-WR740N should already be distributing Internet via Wi-Fi and LAN cable to your computer. All you need to do is go to the router settings to change the Wi-Fi network name and password.

If it doesn’t work, check if the connection type is “Static IP” in the WAN settings. When your router receives automatically the necessary parameters from your friend’s router. In the same section of the WAN will be the connection information. IP address etc.

Connecting TP-Link TL-WR740N to another router

You can also try to configure TP-Link TL-WR740N as an access point. In this case IP-addresses in your local network will be issued by another router, which is installed on the second floor.

Here is more instruction on how to configure TL-WR740N – /tp-link/how-to-configure-tp-link-tl-wr740n-wi-fi-setting-and-the-internet/ In your case it is also suitable, only you connect the cable not from the provider, from another router.

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