What Can I Do With an Old Wireless Router? Three Ideas | Bill Mullins' Weblog – Tech Thoughts

What Can I Do With an Old Wireless Router? Three Ideas | Bill Mullins' Weblog – Tech Thoughts: Perhaps your son or daughter would like to use their laptop in the basement rec room, or your new router is on the first floor and you’d like wireless access upstairs. You can use the old router as an access point to help extend coverage to areas of your home where the signal may not be as strong. To do this, you simply turn off the DCHP server on the old router and plug in an Ethernet cable from the new router to the old one. It is a simple and no-cost way to double the wireless coverage in your home.