Temporary router - help!

GDB2222

Does the following make any sense?

Someone drove into the local BT junction box, and our broadband is down for the next week until Openreach can get round to fixing it.

I have a mifi router I bought, and I'm using that for internet connectivity for the time being. The trouble is that all the smart gadgets in the house are connected to the Fritzbox router that no longer has an internet connection. So, I've switched the Fritzbox off for the time being.

I have plugged the mesh into the mifi router, and I've changed the mesh SSID and password to match the Fritzbox.

Will all the gadgets just connect up automatically now?

When Openreach fix the broadband and I turn the Fritzbox back on again, I'll connect the mesh back to that. Will there be any conflict through having the mesh and the Fritzbox using the same wireless SSID and password?

Until now, we've run the router and the mesh with separate SSIDs, so people have a choice of which to connect to, as the mesh is a bit slower than connecting direct to the router, but the mesh offers greater range round the house.

Thanks for any advice.

flaneurs_lobster

Any smart home kit plugged directly to the Fritz!box?

Assuming the mifi box has decent Wi-fi output (if it has wired output it sounds like a decent device) then it might have been simpler to change the SSID/password on the mifi to match that on the Fritz!box and keep everything else the same?

Running more than one Wi-fi source with the same SSID will work although devices can slow/stutter if they flip-flop between sources. Best not.

Whitefiver

I had a similar problem, and I bought a TP-Link router, which had an ethernet port and so I could just connect that straight into my mesh network. So, speed apart, it was seamless.

TP-Link TL-MR105 - about £40

I have since used it on a holiday (in UK) in a house without any internet, and it was a godsend there too.

Might work for you.

GDB2222

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81909278#Comment_81909278

I splashed out on their MR600, as I wanted cat 6.

Eldi_Dos

I am surprised that it is expected to take a week to carry out the repairs, usually when a cabinet has had a vehicle strike it is treated as a priority to get services running again.You will be due compensation for the time you are without service, when it is back up and running keep a eye that there are no glitches or intermittent faults as that would reset the date from which compensation is due.