can anyone recommend a cheap wireless router? im gonna have to connect it to my current sky one to get the internet. the only way to get full wireless signal from the sky router is to sit within 1 meter of it and its doing my head in lol

You can only have one router on the network m8 (unless you put one into modem mode and use another as a router)

 

From what you are describing you need a wireless extender

 

I use one of these which works like a dream

 

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Edimax-Wireless-11n-Range-Extender-Access-Point-with-5-Port-Switch-/360666332097?pt=UK_Computing_Wireless_Routers&hash=item53f9637bc1

 

It has three modes and it is very easy to set up

 

Mode 1. You run a network cable from your router to the extender and then use it as a separate wireless access point. This is the way I use mine (have a LAN cable from my netgear router upstairs to my Edimax access point in the conservatory. To make life easy I set the password on the Edimax wireless to be same as the netgear. This means I now have two wireless access points. I can connect my Android phone, Tablet etc from anywhere in the house to whichever is the strongest signal in that location

 

Mode 2. You put the Edimax somewhere in the house that you can still connect to your wireless router and set it to Universal Repeater mode. This means no cables between the edimax and the sky router. What happens now is you have one wireless access that covers more of the house

 

Mode 3. You can use the edimax as a wireless bridge. For example you could connect a games console (which does not have built in wireless) via a LAN cable to the edimax and then connect wirelessly to you router (assuming you are within range)

 

I find Mode 1 suits my neads better and only had to run one LAN cable beteen the router and edimax

 

I also find the edimax is much stronger. For example at the rear of the house i can only connect to the edimax but upstairs by the netgear I connect toboth

Hi, Just found this on a website I use....

http://www.ebuyer.com/169923-tenda-wireless-n150-access-point-router-extender-w311r-

It looks quite good for the price....

What do you recon dicky96??

Ring sky tell them your router is faulty, i can get a signal from mine sitting in the car on the road past my garden. (around 10meters away)

Hi, Just found this on a website I use....

http://www.ebuyer.com/169923-tenda-wireless-n150-access-point-router-extender-w311r-

It looks quite good for the price....

What do you recon dicky96??

 

 

It looks like the edimax one but does not seem to have the repeater mode. If you can run a cable to it from the router that would work. Also that option they show with the two powerline adaptors for £40.47 looks good value

 

In this case you connect one powerline adaptor to the sky router vias ethernet cable and plug it into a mains socket

 

Go into another room and also connect the other powerline adapter to the wireless access point and plug into a mains socket. You now have two separate access points in the house. simples

 

Rich

You can only have one router on the network m8 (unless you put one into modem mode and use another as a router)

 

 

Not quite accurate, you can chain the routers as long as the second one has an Ethernet hand-off, it would be called a cable rather than an ADSL router. It may cause some confusion if both routers use the same LAN IP range, but it does still work.

 

But anyway agree with some of the other comments such as getting Sky to send you a working one or use a wireless extender. Quite a lot of wireless routers call also act as extenders using the WDS protocol (which can often be manufacturer specific)

I had read up on doing it using 2 routers but the eBay one you sent Dicky sounds fine. Sky's answer to the problem is pay them £35 for a new router and I'm not giving them the money. It's apparently a common problem with the sky router

Whens you contract up? just cancel

I like sky just not the router they supply I don't mind paint the £25 for the eBay wireless extender I get a better speed through sky than I did with bt

A wireless signal can be severely reduced if there is something in the local environment interrupting the signal. For example; there could be a lot of wireless users in your area and that can degrade the signal or it could be getting blocked by something in your house. Have you tried changing the wireless channel to another one?

 

If it is your router/hub that's playing up, then you could replace it with one from Netgear or Belkin for example. You don't need to use the one from sky.

You can have many wireless routers setup on the same subnet !

 

as long as they all have separate ip addresses and only one is setup as the default gateway.

 

and by default gateway I mean the one that hooks you to your service provider and runs the DNS and DHCP services,

 

all others must have these services disabled or setup to forward dns / dhcp requests to the main gateway.

 

If you do daisy chain as andy says it could work if using the WAN port but again can cause issues with speed and port forwarding

all depending on how good the kit your using is and your doubling up the feature what the switches uses called nat.

 

Not quite accurate, you can chain the routers as long as the second one has an Ethernet hand-off, it would be called a cable rather than an ADSL router. It may cause some confusion if both routers use the same LAN IP range, but it does still work.

 

But anyway agree with some of the other comments such as getting Sky to send you a working one or use a wireless extender. Quite a lot of wireless routers call also act as extenders using the WDS protocol (which can often be manufacturer specific)

Edited June 24, 201312 yr by JaiKai

With sky you have to have there router first as part of there t&cs

I might have a spare SKY router.......

 

I'll check when I get back on Thursday or Friday

 

If I've still got it I know that has a good range !

stick a static ip on the second router from the same network as the sky one (so you can still manage it), then disable wireless on the sky one. that way you can use any router, cable or adsl, as you wont need the wan port.

disable dhcp on the second router, and plug the lans together. might need a crossover cable, but most routers do auto crossover anyway.

wireless from the second router and dhcp from the sky one will work fine.

done it plenty of times when working with faulty routers, or creating 'guest' wireless.

 

as Steams says though, try setting another channel manually, as lots of devices interfere with the frequency, even some tv/av wireless senders.

if another router is using same channel, then you will join your network, but all your traffic goes to the stronger source, so you dont actually get anywhere

Yeah Craig that's what I was originally gonna do

sorry del, got a bit carried away, lol

No was just meaning that's what I was gonna do before everyone put all the other things up lol might just do that