I have a 2 story house with a Linksys E1200 on the main floor. I am finding that down in my basement I do not get a good signal. I want to add another wireless device so I get coverage down there. I thought about putting in an identical Linksys to keep things consistent and I managed to get the first one up and running despite limited computer skills. My question is how do I setup the basement one, what happens if I have an active wireless connection off the main wireless router then I roam downstairs, will I see a disruption as it picks up the new one or is it all seemless? I know my main one hands out its own DHCP address space, would I need to change the address space on the downstairs unit? sorry if these are dumb questions, I just want a transparent connection if I take a device between floors and it jumps from one wireless device to the other, I'm not looking for anything fancy. any help appreciated. thank you

I stumbled onto a problem recently when I was having modem issues. I contacted my ISP (it's their router) and when conducting a speed test of wired vs wireless, I found my 1 year old router is only producing half of the signal strength that the wired connection is. I realize wired will always be faster but this wasn't always the case. Both modem and router are about 1 year old. This is an issue on both Mac and Windows platforms. I've looked for frayed wires from the outside box in and found nothing, all connections are solid. I checked for channel interference and found I'm the only one on the channel I'm on compared to my neighbors. We have actually reduced the number of devices on our network, nothing new has occurred so I'm a bit stumped. Signal strength is at 100% on both modem and router. Any idea what I could check next or change? Thank you in advance for your assistance.