Repeater vs Router / Wireless vs Wired

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@SINGH30- My primary router gives me fabulous speed in the room it is located (50mbps up and down)- it just fails elsewhere

SO . heres an update, I wired the Cat 5e wire from the primary router and have run it across the terrace to where anpther router will be placed (which is on the way- Im assured two day delivery). The router I purchased is same as the primary router D-Link DIR-615 Wireless N 300 Router . SO now I basically just reconfigure it into access point?
 
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@dryash I linked you to a tutorial yesterday. Pl. follow that and let us know when you are stuck.
 
Use a ethernet cable cat 6 or higher to connect primary modem to secondary router in wan input.
ie. lan output from primary becomes wan input in secondary.
Make sure that you cover sufficient distance via ethernet.

Signals get weak in wifi repeator.
Also try 5G wifi.

I had same problem. When mtnl started giving speeds above 5 mbps, i started feeling difference. The speeds dropped in other rooms.
So had to use ethernet & 5G repeators.
 
On most routers, there is no difference between LAN input and wan input. Only in some advanced routers, such as Mikrotik hap ac2, they have LAN only ports where we can choose any of them to be input or output depending on our needs. Basically, output from first should go to input of another, regarding of technical terms.
 

@pothi, LAN to WAN connection will require the primary router and the secondary router to be on different ip segments. Hence, computers connected to the primary router will not be able to see those connected to the secondary router and vice versa. This may not be desirable in a home network.
 
I don't see any physical LAN input in TP-Link model. Of course, there is a wan input and a bunch of LAN ports. All LAN ports are output ports, from what I see.

VivekA said:
I have never had a router where this was not so.
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FYI, the OP has DIR 615 where there is only wan input. There is no physical LAN input in it. Never used D-Link models. But, most routers can work as repeater or as an access point, depending on our needs.
 

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