After selling Ankur Apartment flat at Delhi we permanently shifted to Bhopal in our new 3 BHK Flat at Canal Kinship, Salaiya, Bhopal wef 28 June 2025.
We had Tikona Broadband connection at Delhi which we wanted to relocate to Bhopal and accordingly Tikona Engineer visited us at Bhopal flat but he declared our area as unserviceable.
At Bhopal we decided not to install the TV in Living Room and installed it in third bedroom. We invited Jio Fiber to install their modem near the TV.
After a few days I observed that Jio Fiber coverage is not proper in other bedrooms and decided to use TP Link modem used for Tikona connection at Delhi as Wifi range extender.
I watched couple of videos on youtube and tried to set up TP Link modem according to their advice but none of them worked satisfactorily,
I asked ChatGPT (which I use very frequently at Bhopal) for solution and re configured TP Link modem according to ChatGPT advice and then it is working perfectly as wireless extender. I have kept TP Link modem in the middle of Living Room.
The configuration is as follows:
Use TP Link modem as wifi connection to the device.
Login to modem typing 192.168.0.1 in the browser and password set up by you previously.
Goto Network > LAN Settings
Disable DHCP server so it does not assign IPs.
This avoids IP conflicts with Jio Fiber modem.
Set up static IP in same network range.
Jio Modem IP is 192.168.29.1
Set up TP Link to 192.168.29.2
Subnet mask 255.255.255.0
This makes sure both devices are on the same network.
Enable WDS Bridging
Go to Advanced > Wireless > Advanced Settings
In WDS enable WDS Bridging.
SSID to be bridged SSID of Jio Fiber modem
MAC to be bridged MAC of Jio Fiber modem
Security WPA/WPA2
Version WPA2PSK
Encryption AES
Password Password of Jio Fiber SSID
Wireless Settings
SSID SSID for TP Link
Password suitable password
Save settings and the modem will ask for reboot, do it.
It works perfectly but we have to do a setting in Jio Fiber modem as well
Use Jio Fiber modem on the device
Login typing 192.168.29.1 in the browser
userid admin
password Jiocentrum
It will ask to change the password for admin and guest user
Choose suitable long passwords and confirm them.
Go to Network > LAN > DHCP Set up
Start IP address will be 192,168,29,2
Change it to 192.168.29.3
This is required since we have set up TP Link to have static IP of 192.168.29.2
This is necessary to prevent Jio Fiber modem from assigning 192.168.29.2 to some other device through DHCP.
