Connecting router to Virgin Media SuperHub 3

itzNAMRO · 21 Jan 2021 at 12:03

Hello everyone,

I'm in a little spot of bother. I have a home office which is a separate building to the main house. Currently, I have the VM SuperHub in the house and then have an ethernet cable running from the house to the home office which connects into a gigabit switch. The gigabit switch then connects 2 computers, printer, philips hue bridge, etc. The wifi signal is rubbish so I'd like to improve this.

I think the best solution is to replace the gigabit switch for something that allows wifi connection. However I don't want to change the SuperHub settings to be modem. I'd like the SuperHub to accept wireless connections for those that are in the house and then anyone that comes to the office (clients, family, myself etc) can connect to the office network.

Is it possible to connect a SuperHub router to another router like the Netgear R6400 router (R6400 | WiFi Routers | Networking | Home | NETGEAR) without changing it to modem mode?

Thanks,
Daniel

Avalon · 21 Jan 2021 at 14:30

Just plug an AP into the switch, you absolutely do not want to introduce double NAT into your network for no obvious reason.

MagicBoy · 21 Jan 2021 at 14:32

^^^ This.

itzNAMRO · 21 Jan 2021 at 17:02

Avalon said:
Just plug an AP into the switch, you absolutely do not want to introduce double NAT into your network for no obvious reason.

Excuse my ignorance but what's an AP?

itzNAMRO · 21 Jan 2021 at 17:08

Also, out of curiosity, what's "double NAT"? I'm very much a rookie when it comes to understanding networking.

Shawreyboy · 21 Jan 2021 at 17:26

Couldn't you just disable the DHCP in the Netgear and assign it something like 192.168.1.254 as the device in the LAN. The VM hub should be able to limit the scope of the IP's to say 192.168.1.200 - the Netgear would then just act as an AP.

MagicBoy · 21 Jan 2021 at 17:39

itzNAMRO said:
Excuse my ignorance but what's an AP?

Wireless Access Point. It's like the WiFi functionality of a standard wireless router, but without the unnecessary routing, firewalls and all the other gubbins.

Some routers can be set to an Access Point mode so might pay to check the manual for the one you spoke about in the first post...

itzNAMRO · 21 Jan 2021 at 17:59

Shawreyboy said:
Couldn't you just disable the DHCP in the Netgear and assign it something like 192.168.1.254 as the device in the LAN. The VM hub should be able to limit the scope of the IP's to say 192.168.1.200 - the Netgear would then just act as an AP.

MagicBoy said:
Wireless Access Point. It's like the WiFi functionality of a standard wireless router, but without the unnecessary routing, firewalls and all the other gubbins.

Some routers can be set to an Access Point mode so might pay to check the manual for the one you spoke about in the first post...

I think that's what I'm after - something to just boost the WiFi. I don't want a separate network so to speak, just want to have another point to get signal. The way I imagine this stuff working is that I'll walk out of my house, the signal will drop as I head towards the office, then when I get close enough the signal picks back up and then I'm still connected to the virgin media internet. Is that called another access point? I'll look for that in the digital manual before I purchase!