2 Routers same IP address help...

[OLIVER BIRD]

Hello all,

Im new here so please excuse any errors I may make or have made.

Completely new to this and have made a boobie already.

So I have Virgin fiber in my home, I have a garage at the top of my garden that I have converted to a gym / motorbike garage with Smart TV in there. So I wanted to extend the wifi range, I had an old Router that I did a bit of homework with and realised I could use this to extend the range by connecting an ethernet cable between.

So I connected the additional router to a laptop and entered the settings and changed the IP address, but by mistake i changed the IP address to the same IP as the original! Now when i plug it in I think they are conflicting each other.

Can I change the IP address on the additional router without messing up the original?

I was quite impressed running the ethernet cable etc making a tidy job to mess this vital part up!

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks

Ollie

 

[OLIVER BIRD]

Thank you both,

Sorry complete newbie, so I can access all the settings through internet explorer without the second router being connected to the first.

@pepp77 why 254 instead of just 192.168.250.2 for instance?

So if i do this i dont need to change any other settings just that one IP address.

 

[OLIVER BIRD]

Yes im purely using this second router to extend the WIFI range, as my garage is insulated also so blocks out quite a lot of signal.

 

[OLIVER BIRD]

Yes im purely using this second router to extend the WIFI range, as my garage is insulated also so blocks out quite a lot of signal.

Brilliant, I will give this a go this afternoon. I was worried about messing up the original router so stopped and unplugged it.