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What to do with all these routers?

sam1970 · 2016-03-28 17:41:34

Over the years, I moved my ISP provider from one company to another. Every one of them supplied me with a new router which I have never even got out of the box as I stuck with my trusted Netgear router for more than 12 years. My question is...Can I make use of these routers? Can they be used to extend the wifi signal or…

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buglawton Posts: 9,246 Forumite

30 March 2016 at 4:17PM

Some routers can be used as a separate gateway with a different DNS than your main one - apparently you daisy chain it onto your existing standard router.
e.g.
https://thevpn.guru/how-to-setup-watch-uk-channels-outside-abroad-vpn-dns-proxy
I have an old Netgear wpn824 and was wondering if it could be used for this sort of thing, purely for proof of concept of course...

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