Restoring WiFi?

The_Fat_Controller

Reset the router using the pinhole button.

DoaM

The_Fat_Controller said:

Reset the router using the pinhole button.

You're about 5 hours too late with that. 🙄

grumpycrab

Its difficult to know where to start here, except to say that in general cheap wifi repeaters are rubbish. If you cannot get it to work immediately then send it back.
You shouldn't have had to change anything on your router - have you recovered yet?
And what's the ethernet cable got to do with it?  I assume its for connecting your laptop directly to router - anything else and your concept of "security" is wrong I'm afraid.
Alternatives?  If you are set on a "repeater" you may have more luck with a known make.  e.g. I've seen Netgear repeaters working.  The next best option is a "powerline adapter kit". This comes as a pair of units. One unit plugs in near your router and connects to your router using a provided ethernet cable.  The other "wifi unit" plugs in where you want wifi.  You can plug your laptop into this unit with an ethernet cable - and you'll get a hard-wired connection to your router because the 2 units talk to each other using the house wiring.

Rosa_Damascena

Thanks all. Reset hasn't worked, the router is completely non-responsive. I cannot be bothered to pick up the phone and ask Virgin Media to do anything with it as I am changing BB provider imminently. 

The repeater is going back before it repeats on me! 

TheRightOne

Why not post the details of the router in the first place? Makes everything twice as difficult, having to guess.

unforeseen

I'm guessing it's a Virgin Hub

TheRightOne

unforeseen said:

I'm guessing it's a Virgin Hub

Are they all the same? Have no idea and have lost interest anyways.. 

Rosa_Damascena

unforeseen said:

I'm guessing it's a Virgin Hub

It was, and is no longer. I'm on TalkTalk now and the hub is on its was to its maker - although I must say there was nothing wrong with it until I connected the repeater. Rubbish buy, don't make the same mistake as I did folks.