Have I ordered the wrong router

mrochester

You can either turn off Wi-Fi on the nowtv router or simply forget the nowtv wifi network on your devices. Your new router will connect via an Ethernet cable from the nowtv router.

rajeshk4u

Now TV router has only two Ethernet ports. This is rather limiting offering.

mrochester

rajeshk4u wrote: »

Now TV router has only two Ethernet ports. This is rather limiting offering.

The OP only needs 1 Ethernet port on the nowtv router to connect the new router to.

buglawton

grumpycrab wrote: »

I assume you're aware that NOWTV don't allow you to do this? 3.8 from T&Cs...

3.8 You must not use a modem or any other equipment that we have not supplied to you in
order to access NOW Broadband.

https://web.static.nowtv.com/images/NOWTV_2017/05_Combo/Contracts/NOW%20Broadband%20Contract%20March%202018.pdf

So connecting your laptop or phone to access Now broadband is breaking the Ts & Cs ?

arciere

Easiest thing is to keep using the NowTV router without making any changes to it and then set up the WAN port on the new router to work in Client mode with dynamic address.
If you have WiFi, which you probably do, disable it on the NowTV router and enable the one on the new one.

almillar

So connecting your laptop or phone to access Now broadband is breaking the Ts & Cs ?

No. You connect their modem/router to their broadband, then everything else connects to their modem/router.


Using any other modem/router is against their T&Cs. Sky are the same.

mrochester

almillar wrote: »

No. You connect their modem/router to their broadband, then everything else connects to their modem/router.


Using any other modem/router is against their T&Cs. Sky are the same.

Just to be clear I believe you can use any other router, but you HAVE to use their modem (although you don’t HAVE to because when I was with Sky I used my own modem instead of the supplied one).

grumpycrab

arciere wrote: »

Easiest thing is to keep using the NowTV router without making any changes to it and then set up the WAN port on the new router to work in Client mode with dynamic address.

Is that better than NOT using the WAN port and using the new router as an Access Point?

arciere

grumpycrab wrote: »

Is that better than NOT using the WAN port and using the new router as an Access Point?

Waaaaay better.
You can't have two routers on the same network. That would effectively make two networks. With two networks, you will have routing problems, unless you know what you are doing and you are willing to spend (unnecessary) time setting up both devices.

If you don't want to use the WAN port, you will end up having a router and using it as a £15 wireless access point that can pretty much do nothing. Also, you might have routing problems with devices connecting to the NowTV router trying to communicate to devices connecting to the new router.

In addition, IPTV devices often use multicast services. Multicast services are restricted to a specific network, which basically means that it may work on one router but not on the other.