Two wifi routers on the same line ?

[TRBOBUICK]

At my kids school we want to mirror iPads on the classroom smart board. I downloaded the reflector program on the classroom desktops. I wanted to log onto the password protected WiFi to link the two. The IT guy at the school refuses to give us the password. He says if too many devices get on the protected wifi , all the devices will bog down to the point that they are basically usable. He says the only way to do this is to buy a seperate $400.00 interface PER CLASSROOM !
My question is can I put a router between the hard line in the classroom and the desktop? I would then create another network as an interface between the iPad and the desktop. Is this possible?

Second question : anybody have 12 routers sitting around ?

 

[1BADAIR]

I have two. Modem to the first wifi. The the desktop is plugged into first along with the second wifi

 

[sofa king]

I think I have 2 fairly current ones with Wireless.
They are sitting in the basement, so if you need....

 

[soap]

You can absolutely do that. I have one router in the house and one in the garage. Both broadcast separate WiFi signals and our phones flip back and forth seamlessly.

--Joe

 

[grr456]

I also have 2...One for the house and the other is just used for the phone...

Gary

 

[Tin]

I have 2...one in the house and one in the garage configured as a repeater, works pretty good.

 

[ReiKo]

I have 2...one in the house and one in the garage configured as a repeater, works pretty good.

WTF do you need two when you have the baddest router their is?

 

[Tin]

WTF do you need two when you have the baddest router their is?

Crappy signal on the back 40 because my main router is in the basement

 

[ReiKo]

Crappy signal on the back 40 because my main router is in the basement

I figured you would have some super duper signal booster that requires a 400amp service...

 

[Killjoy]

My question is can I put a router between the hard line in the classroom and the desktop? I would then create another network as an interface between the iPad and the desktop. Is this possible?

Technically, can you? Yes. Assuming you plug the ethernet cable into a LAN port, not the WAN port, it would be acting like a simple repeater. Or you could buy a wireless repeater. And you'd also need to make sure that your 12 routers aren't causing interference with the channels that the school is using. And, and, and...
However, I would strongly suggest you make sure you have all of the necessary approvals you need from the school before doing so. You could cause a lot of problems that you're likely not even thinking of.

Second question : anybody have 12 routers sitting around ?

So you're going to throw 12 random, used routers on the schools network... get everyone using them... then walk away and let the IT guy handle all of the ops issues during the school day that WILL eventually crop up?

I downloaded the reflector program on the classroom desktops.

Hopefully you ran this by the IT guy/school before doing so. There's potential licensing liability for the school and operational issues that need to be handled.


I think you'd be better off working with the IT Guy and school administrators to get this done vs. working around them. e.g. Does the school run separate vlans for the administrators, teachers and back-end systems vs. what's accessible to the students? Which vlan is that classroom PC connected to? Are the kids going to be using these ipads? Are the kids going to have inappropriate access to the schools network based on your rogue WAP? Is the school running different Internet site filtering and logging for admin/teachers vs. students? etc. etc. Unless you know the answers to all these questions and more, I wouldn't suggest adding your own rogue WAPs to the schools network.