Changing from Virgin to Sky, Rename Router?

patwatt999

Because I am moving house and it does not have a Virgin Media connection I am going to be changing my broadband provider from Virgin Media cable broadband to Sky fibre broadband.

I have about 14 devices connected to my Virgin Media WIFI so rather than change every device to the new WIFI can I just change the Sky router name and password to match the Virgin Media details or will it not work that way because of the different technology?

That will be 14 less things to think about

neilmcl

Yes, changing the Sky router's SSID and WPA password to match you're old Virgin media details should work.

matelodave

That's what I do to save the hassle, we've got  a lot more than 14 to change if I didn't.

Roland_Sausage

Yes I do this too. I’ve got about 28 devices at last count, and have had the same SSID and password combination for about 15 years now.

Anytime I get a new router, simply changing this setting in the router saves a lot of hassle.