10 features Wi-Fi-router, which you did not know

Few zaparivat to explore the possibilities of its Wi-Fi-router. There is internet, and it is fine. In fact, a good Wi-Fi-router knows how much that cool. And in order to use all the features, you do not have expertise, alternative firmware download and learn hundreds of pages on the forums. How it works - show for example, a router Keenetic Omni KN-1410Which can be bought for 2 500-2 700 rubles.

1. Connect your network to the neighboring Wi-Fi. Or any other

Let's say, until you finishes signal the nearby cafes. Or neighbor in the goodness of his heart gave you the password for the Wi-Fi. Instead of connecting to the network smartphone, tablet, or computer connected to the network through a router, and the router has to use free of charge internet. This feature is called "wireless ISP»(WISP), and it has several advantages:

1. better signal. If your smartphone wireless mesh shows one or two bars and works somehow, the router with the same mesh will give its full speed, and the connection is much more stable.
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2. Safely. You never know how things are with the security situation in an unfamiliar Wi-Fi-network. By connecting to someone else's Wi-Fi via a router, you hide behind a built-in means of protection and do not shine their devices and their contents in a foreign network.
3. Reserve online, which connects automatically. If your primary provider when something breaks down, the router automatically switches to backup link, and you will most likely not even notice this and will be able to continue to use internet.
4. Reserve online on smartphone. Often, when problems with the internet, we use a smartphone as a hotspot. A signal from him weak and strikes nearby. Create a hotspot on your phone, connect to the router as a "wireless service provider", and you get a good stable link on all of your devices.

What is a WISP and how to configure it →

2. Use multiple providers on a single router

This function is called Multi WAN. It allows you to connect as many providers as ports in your router, and further still and add a USB-modem.

Suppose you have conducted internet directly from the two providers. A - major, the second - with the backup, the cheapest tariff. It is a good practice, which allows you to stay connected, even if something happened in the main provider.

Each time not to swap cables or reconfigure the router or computer and do other time-consuming and force things, just plug both cables in a router. The main - in the standard port (it is usually a different color), and a backup - in any other. Once set up on a router instructionsAnd in the future everything will work and switch automatically.

How to connect to the Internet directly from the two providers →

3. Distribute the Internet from the USB-modem via a router

This is possible if the router has a USB-port, and you have - USB-modem from the cellular operator, with whom you can go with a laptop from anywhere Network.

Connect the modem to the router's USB-port and follow the quick setup of instructions. Now that you have a backup mobile Internet, which will turn on automatically when a problem occurs at the primary provider.

This life hacking will allow the use of Wi-Fi-network, not only in the country where there is no stationary Internet, but also on the trip. On the Internet you can find the adapter-adapter to power the router from the cigarette lighter in the car. Connect to the router USB-modem, and all your passengers will be able to use the Internet on a journey - unless, of course, will signal network.

How to connect your USB-modem to the router →

4. Download and watch torrents through a router without a computer

If you have an external hard drive, connect it to the router via USB.

Activate the possibility to download torrents on router settings instructions.

You can remotely start the download and manage them through the Android-App My. Keenetic.

Downloading torrents and distribution through the router comes without a computer. By default, download and upload speed are set so as not to clog the entire channel. Change the speed can be configured. budget Keenetic Omni is more than 5 MB / s you will achieve, but the Internet will not slow down when loading.

The router can not only download but also to broadcast the video on the TV for the DLNA, moreover settings torrent you can select the boot sequence of the torrent to start watching the movie before the end of download.

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5. You go to the router and home devices from anywhere

For all the "Kinetics" is available free corporate services KeenDNS, superseding any other DDNS-Service (Such as No-IP and DynDNS) in a situation where you have white, but a dynamic IP-address.

And what to do if an address is gray, like almost all mobile operators for the above-described connection via USB-modem or backup?

KeenDNS solves this problem:

• gives https-protected access to the router even gray address on behalf of the convenient type home.keenetic.link without the hassle of obtaining and SSL-certificate of the prescription;
• Accesses for gray address not only to the router, but also to Web interface devices connected to it (E.g., the boiler control system, or the already mentioned torrent shaker) on behalf of convenient type device.home.keenetic.link.
• provides full secure access to the home network for pervasive tunnel SSTP, which can be easily set up in Windows or via the app for Android.

Learn more about KeenDNS →

6. Create backups Time Machine

Apple stopped production of its routers, but the need to backup MacBook will not go away.

Enable Time Machine backup to a router settings on instructions. You again need an external hard drive - now it will be even and storage backups. And it is not necessary to format in HFS + file malic system, because the router is able to do backups and NTFS-disk.

If you need a high-speed backup, Keenetic Omni can not handle. Look towards the top Keenetic Giga routers or Ultra.

How to backup MacBook through a router →

7. Manage memory stick from your smartphone without OTG-cable

This feature lets you record and play back files if the computer is not close at hand, and the smartphone does not support OTG, or OTG-cable has gone missing.

Connect the USB flash drive to the router on instructions and run on the smartphone file manager like «ES Explorer" with the network access support. You will have full access to the contents of the stick regardless of its file system.

How to connect a USB flash drive to your router →

8. Turn your router to the telephone exchange. Or even in something

The USB-port router can stick not only modem or disk, but also branded DECT-top box Keenetic Plus DECT. With it, your router will work as a wireless telephone system that supports up to 6 handsets. Everything you need for this can be tune without special knowledge.

Support for third-party software packages (OPKG) In the official firmware turns the router into a real Swiss Army knife with a bunch of widgets. You can put in a router torrent client rTorrent, telephone exchange IP-PBX Asterisk, other DLNA-enabled server, and more. The routers Keenetic main firmware is not changed, and you do not lose your warranty.

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9. Save on VPN

Due to recent developments in the Russian Internet on the VPN and its advantages are now known to all.

With a router you can well save by purchasing only one license to one device at any good the VPN-provider, but to use the service immediately on all your devices.

It's enough to turn VPN on more than one of the devices, and directly on the router. Now any smartphone, tablet, or computer connected to the router will automatically go online via VPN. If you do not fit, go to the router's settings and specify which gadgets should work through the VPN, and what - no.

If you want to use a VPN only to improve safety on the Internet, you do not need foreign-VPN servers, and therefore, do not need and pay for them. In the presence of white IP you can safely go online via their own VPN, while away from home. As a bonus, you get access to your home network and its content from anywhere in the world.

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10. Make Wi-Fi nimble and stable

Most routers operates in the 2.4 GHz band. When multiple routers are adjacent - for example, in an apartment building - they interfere with each other. Imagine Bazaar: a bunch of people, all shouting, nothing is clear. With routers is the same, only falling quality and speed of the Internet.

The range is divided into multiple channels. For example, Vasey neighbor router operates at the 6th passage, and Petit - 11-m. The router can monitor the current channel utilization and even automatically move to less populated, but the same function can be and neighboring routers. What to do?

Create as many networks as allowed by your router. Give networks dissimilar names to your cunning plan is not seen through the neighbors (and do not forget to put a password). All started by the network you are on the same channel. For any Wi-Fi-channel analyzer will seem overloaded, and therefore create a grid in it, he would take it inappropriate. This means that the channel will be entirely at your disposal.

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Why does my router do not know how?

Much depends on the developer program filling router. Some devices receive updates and all the new chips, while others still remain in the old version. Secondly users have to get out and put on your own risk custom firmware, losing at the same time guarantee on the device.

Keenetic uses a single operating system that is constantly improving and adding new features to all models of routers.

Whether you use a top-end or budget Keenetic Giga Keenetic Lite - you will always have the latest version of OSes with all new features.

Of course, hardware constraints play a role. You can not with a software update to grow router USB-port. The device created only for the 2.4 GHz band, will never learn to operate in the 5 GHz band. But if the filling device complies with the requirements for the operation of the new features, you'll get it, regardless of the model of your Keenetic.

In Keenetic large active community and extensive knowledge base. Life hacking for this article - just there. If something does not work, please contact the support Keenetic. There answer faster than in the forums, and always to the point.

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Author: Sergey Suyagin