Add second wireless router

Gloomendoom

You need to select AP.

debitcardmayhem

Your preferred DNS should be your main router 192.168.0.1

Robisere

Agree with last 2 posts: setup as router, choose AP. Well done for following the routine.

Lennys_Shinpad

Cheers folks. All set up now. Working like a dream.

I am well chuffed. Thanks.

that

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Huh, the second one is wired via cat5 the only way that it can lose connection is if the Virgin one does, no pain at all

I did this for friends of friends in remote village. Their plusnet router kept locking up regularly, even before the install, even under cat5. They found rebooting of routers confusing. They did not know if it was the isp or router or pc. When leaving the router unplugged from the mains wifi did not work, and found it all hard to fix.

Would have been better to put the second router in as the first, but they wanted the standard plusnet installation

arciere

that wrote: »

This is a better solution, have a look here at the motorguy last post
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5911209/wifi-plug-broadband-problem&highlight=mesh+wifi

I have done it your way with two routers for a friend, but if one of the two routers keep loosing connection like the old plusnet one, it is a pita

The best solution is always going wired to the router and then Access Point.
Mesh is generally easier to set up, but it adds latency and has a reduced throughput, and it's also more expensive if what you want to be covered can be handled by a single access point.

Glad that OP managed to make it work.