Recently in my household my family has been having some issues with overloading our wireless router. Currently we have a D-Link model DIR-655 router in the basement of our house. This router was left with the house when we purchased it and has worked fine up until recently.
Every now and then, perhaps once or twice a week, our router will seem to overload. The work around i have found to help is to disconnect the power and restart the router, however this is no long term solution to our problem. The devices we have connected to this router include;
An iMac hardwired via ethernet cables
Two iPod touches via wifi
An iPad via wifi
Two 3DS systems via wifi
A Kindle Fire via wifi
A Xbox 360 via wifi
A Apple TV via wifi
A Samsung HD TV via wifi
A Lenovo Laptop via wifi
and finally a Samsung Blu-Ray player via wifi.
I work as an IT guy at my community college so I am of course the most technologically advanced person in our household, and therefor must solve all our tech issues. I however do not work as much with networking so my knowledge in this area is probably not as strong as it should be. When it was just myself, and to a lesser extent, my mother using the router we barely encountered this issue, however my step-father and little brother have recently become more interested in technology and the number of devices to a single router has skyrocketed.
The people who owned our house previously were day traders and installed a number ethernet terminals throughout our house which if plugged into our router via ethernet cables will act as ethernet extensions.
The only solutions to this issue that comes to my mind is to either purchase a new very expensive router (which is a less than desirable solution) or to buy a second semi-decent router and daisy-chain it to our other router in the basement through the Ethernet hubs on the first floor, acting as a Ethernet extension.
However due to my lack of knowledge in the networking field i want to know for sure that if i buy a second router I will;
1.be able to daisy-chain them with this ethernet hub
and
2.actually allow for our internet to maintain is up time by dividing up our devices between the two routers.
Added (1). We recently upgraded to the highest level of internet service our ISP provides for a maximum amount of bandwidth, and has made little difference. I have always thought it to be our router just because my work around involves reseting the router which is independent of our modem.As I mentioned before however, my knowledge is lacking in this area and could be easily wrong.
См. статью: Will Daisy-Chaining Two Routers Help Divide My Wifi work load?