SKY Router Workaround

maximus0983

Hi

I have Sky broadband, but unfortunately so does the rest of my street!

I had a little brainwave to switch off the wireless connection from my current DG834GT and connect a Belkin N Range wireless router to it (I have a spare at home) and turn the wireless on from there.

Does anyone know if this would work to

a) stop interference from 20 other Sky routers around my house
b) extend the range of the wireless signal so I can use the broadband in my garden
c) transmit more data wirelessly - once i connect the iPad, everything else will be slow.

I have a 7.2MB connection on my secondary telephone socket (not connected to the BT master as it is in the kitchen).

Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Hammyman

It won't stop the interference however downloading and running InSSIDER, finding out what channels aren't being used and putting your wifi router on that channel will. It is very unlikely to extend the range to any meaningful level. The wifi network runs at the speed of the slowest connection but even running at 11Mbps it'll be faster than your broadband so you'd only get any benefit when transferring files between your own devices.

maximus0983

Hammyman wrote: »

It won't stop the interference however downloading and running InSSIDER, finding out what channels aren't being used and putting your wifi router on that channel will. It is very unlikely to extend the range to any meaningful level. The wifi network runs at the speed of the slowest connection but even running at 11Mbps it'll be faster than your broadband so you'd only get any benefit when transferring files between your own devices.

Would the concept of connecting another wireless router to an existing wired router work? As in a daisy chain?

I will try InSSIDER

spannerzone

Wifi is Wifi and it doesn't make any real odds as to what your neighbours use, whether it's BT, Sky or any other wifi device, they all potentially interfere as there's only 13 channels to use and 10 of those overlap each other. (in the 2.4GHz wifi range at least)

Usually channels 1, 6 and 11 are considered the best to start but you really need to see what other channels are in use and pick a channel that's the least congested. Also careful positioning of your own wireless device may improve signals around your house.

For what it's worth, Sky's terms and conditions insist you use their supplied adsl modem router and won't provide your ADSL log on and password (which is different to your known Sky broadband account log on) - luckily it's possible to find this information allowing you to use a totally different ADSL modem router if required although breaking the T&C's that you agreed to when signing up for Sky broadband.

This site will reveal your Sky ADSL log on and password and despite it looking a little questionable, it is safe

prowla

You can alter the wireless settings of the Sy router's built-in access point just like you can a standalone one.

We run an additional wireless AP off our Sky router to allow us to segregate our household traffic over two separate channels.

Hammyman

spannerzone wrote: »

Usually channels 1, 6 and 11 are considered the best to start

Those are the ones to avoid. Virtually every Sky router and BT Homehub come on Channel 1 or 6. Most Orange Liveboxes are on 10. Buffalo and Dlink tend to default to 11.

4,5,7,8,9 are good. You can use Channel 12 and 13 are excellent and usually unused but you have to be careful as Channel 12 and 13 don't exist in the USA so you may find some wifi devices won't find the network and on windows computers, you may need to go into device manager, network adapters, properties for that adapter and change the country to UK to enable the additional 2 channels.

closed

anything between 1 6 and 11 overlap with 2 of the 1/6/11 frequencies

even with 20 in 50m range or so, your signal should be far stronger than the rest, so interference should be limited or unnoticeable.

GunJack

along with spannerzone's link above, there are programs that will extract the user/pword from some of the newer routers sky dish out, like the D-Link 2640S.....either google or look at dslzone forums for info.

p.s. I've got a copy somewhere if someone needs it

steve1980

To find out the username and password of your router go to https://www.cm9.net/skypass/ and paste in the MAC address.