Old router as a bridge

billycasper_2

Anyone ever used an old router as a bridge so you can connect a tv or hifi to it and connect it to the new router??

I was with o2 and now with sky. I have a sky hub hard wired to my old pc with a netgear net adapter connected to my sky box (working fine) but want to connect my hi fi ..
the sky hub does recognise (on the settings page) the old o2 router but I cannot access it or change any settings on the old router or access the internet via the hub.
is it possible? How do I access the settings screen of an old router ? Am I an alien?:beer:

chunter

Easier to use a cable router. Most of those supplied telephone routers are hardwired to get their broadband from the phone line.
With the cable router you simply change the ip address of the cable router 'suitably' and a few other minor tweaks and it'll work fine.
I've rigged two together using homeplugs to make the wireless cover larger houses.

billycasper_2

Home plugs?? what are they? sorry to be dumb..

esuhl

Yes -- I logged into the web-based settings of the spare router (by connecting it directly to my PC via Ethernet), gave it an IP address that is on the same subnet as the "main" router (but not the same IP address, of course), and turned off DHCP.

I connected the spare router to the first using an Ethernet cable, and hey presto, I can use any of the other spare Ethernet sockets on either router and both wireless access points -- all on the same network.

Nicholas-bloody-Parsons

billycasper wrote: »

Anyone ever used an old router as a bridge so you can connect a tv or hifi to it and connect it to the new router??

How do I access the settings screen of an old router ?

Yes I used a 'netgear dsg834g' but had to flash the firmware with custom firmware from DGTEAM to get the bridge mode to come up. Very difficult and never worked that well. :mad:

Now i bought a 'TP Link TL-WR702N'. Which does the trick. :rotfl:

DCFC79

billycasper wrote: »

Home plugs?? what are they? sorry to be dumb..

Homeplugs from amazon

They work over the electrical cabling for the house.

billycasper_2

esuhl.. Does it matter what the Ip is ?? it appears as a different one on my new hub anyway.. I shall try and tinker. worth a go me thinks..

billycasper_2

Wow . never knew these existed. it all seems too easy. how good are they?

DCFC79

billycasper wrote: »

Wow . never knew these existed. it all seems too easy. how good are they?

The homeplugs are fine, using 2 sets 1 for about 3 years now and the second set since last year.

I use them so the 2 xbox's are connected up so no connecting via wifi.

You generally get 2 together, 1 plugs into the mains by the router and the other by the device you want to connect.

esuhl

billycasper wrote: »

esuhl.. Does it matter what the Ip is ?? it appears as a different one on my new hub anyway.. I shall try and tinker. worth a go me thinks..

It doesn't matter what the IP address is,so long as it's on the same subnet as the main router (and not in use by any other device). The subnet mask for your local network is almost certainly 255.255.255.0, meaning that you can change the last octet of the IP address. My main router is 192.168.1.254, so I set the second router to 192.168.1.1.

One other step, I forgot to mention... I then went into the main router's settings and manually assigned 192.168.1.1 as the IP address of the second router. That way the router won't do anything silly like assign that IP address to another PC using DHCP.