L33_WRX

I have Sky Boradband which has a Sky wireless router. I want to add my Linksys router from my old setup into the equation as an additional access point to the net (gives me better signal all around my home).

The sky wireless router is obviously ADSL whereas the linksys router has no modem so should be good to use as an access point to my Sky broadband/router.

Can anyone suggest the best way to do this?

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

Lee

L33_WRX

Anyone?

mike1210

you can connect them together with network cable, powerline adapters (via the plug sockets) with network cable or WDS which connects them wireless but those routers may not have that function.

Using network cable you would have to connect network cable from the sky router into one of the switch ports (crossover cable would be needed if the switch ports are not auto-uplink, they probably are) of the Linksys router. Do NOT use the WAN port use one of the 4 switch ports. On the Linksys router you would have to disable DHCP and make sure the two devices have different IP addresses i.e. 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2. Make sure as well they are on the same IP range as IIRC Linksys by default use 192.168.1.xxx wheras netgear use 192.168.0.xxx, they would both have to be 192.168.0.xxx or 192.168.1.xxx.

you would then hopefully have 2 wireless networks which you could connect to depending on where you are in the house

do you get what I mean? I don't

L33_WRX

Thanks mate - I'll have to log into the admin for each router and see if I have the options to amend IP add and IP range then.

Thanks for the info.

Anyone else done this?

pimmo2000

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I dont know with these, but Netgear router do it automatically, drop to a 10 ip address when connected together.

spectrum48k

yep, I've done it - and Mike's advice is spot-on.

eg. give each box a different IP address
eg. don't use the WAN port on the box your introducing
eg. definitely disable DHCP on the box your introducing - if you don't it'll probably set the gateway incorrectly and you won't get internet on stuff connected to the second box

only thing I'd add is, test your newly introduced box in 2 steps

1. By plugging your laptop into the new box with a network cable (don't plug into the WAN port!). If you can get Internet ok, this tells you the DHCP side of things is working.

2. If that works go ahead and unplug the laptop and test it's ability to connect wirelessly.