Two TP-Link TL-Wa855re amplifiers to one Wi-Fi router

Good afternoon.

Router Huawei E5180s-22 was extended by amplifier TL-WA855RE, because there was not enough coverage area (the router is on the 1st floor, the amplifier is on the 2nd floor). It became necessary to connect another amplifier because there was a dead zone. I bought another amplifier TL-WA855RE. I set it up with iPhone via Tether. Everything was set up, but a problem arose: the Internet started to work badly (connection is there but the Internet does not load), the router sees not two amplifiers but four or five.

What can I do to make everything work properly?

Answer

Hello. In idea, everything should work fine. I configured such a scheme, and in my case everything worked. But there is a small nuance. The second repeater should be connected not to the router, but to the previous repeater. All this I described in detail in the article how to connect several amplifiers to one router.

So I advise you to reset the settings to factory defaults on the second TP-LINK TL-WA855RE and configure it again according to the instructions (at the link above). Well, it is desirable to configure it through the web-interface.

I still don’t understand a lot of things about your problem. For example, what did you mean when you wrote that the router sees 4-5 amplifiers. Is it in the list of connected devices? Maybe they are just other Wi-Fi clients. Did you end up with one Wi-Fi network?

See if there is a possibility to place the second amplifier in such a way that it does not catch the signal from the router, but only from the first repeater.

You need to try it. You can write about the results of configuring the second TL-WA855RE in comments.