Wifi extending

A good answer is to use 5GHz instead of 2.4GHz, you'll probably find fewer of your neighbours are using it, and even if they are, it doesn't pass through walls as well, so each house tends to keep themselves to themselves ...

Isn't this normally done with those things you plug into the mains, that send the data through the ring main in some mysterious and incomprehensible way?

Have you got them set up so that only one is issuing IP addresses? One should be slaved to the other as a range extender.

There are usually menus hidden in the "here be dragons" part.

You might benefit by surveying the local AP's and/or moving your network onto the cleanest channel or 5GHz if the routers support it.

Do you have the two APs on non-overlapping channels?

Martin Brown wrote on 04/11/2016 :

No, I have set both able to dish out IP's and I cannot see a setting to use AP 2 as an extender.

AP 1 is on channel 4, AP 2 is on channel 13 (yes, I know).

I don't want to have to swap to 5Ghz that would involve some major expense. Even on the ground floor, my laptop is logging around 20 AP's, with 3 or 4 stronger than my AP 1.

You have to make a decision, based on hardware capabilities:

If (2) AND (1b) then you'd want to turn one DHCP server off or both will be trying to issue IPs, possibly the same one as one already in use.

In the case of (2) you also have the choice to use a 3rd DHCP server (eg the one in your DSL/Cable router. This might be neater as you have all of that in one place then.

On AP 2 I have set >LAN IP Setup > 'Use Router as DHP Server' to unticked. So far it seems to be working fine, but it worked fine with it ticked for several hours yesterday evening.

Thanks!

.and thanks again, it is still working - so all down to un-ticking that one box.

Have you followed these instructions: