Setting an old router to be a repeater

Not all routers can work in wireless repeater mode but they should be able to work in wired to wireless access point mode if you change a few settings.
 
What do you mean by that?
Also I am using VM for now,
but when I try to save the changes it doesen't work :(
 
There are a few types of repeating, wireless and wired.

In wireless the repeater will sit a distance from the main router and relay all remote wireless traffic back to the main router. It'll use the same SSID, password, channel and encryption and according to some halve your throughput speed.

In wired the repeater sits connected to the main router by ethernet and creates a new access point for more remote devices. It can have a different SSID, password and encryption that the main router but it's usually easier to keep them the same. I use a different channel on mine as it avoid interference.

There also repeating as in extending a wired LAN to cover a large distance. Say we have a 200M span we'd stick a router or switch device in the middle.

So which are you hoping to achieve?

Also Sky routers are generally crippled by sky firmware so won't always support certain things straight off. Im flashed my DG834GT with DGTeam but it still didn't help me get Wireless repeating working so I bought a TP-Link unit that does the job.
 
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T345 said:
We are using VM Superhub, I wan't my old sky router as a repeater,
just to clarify
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virgin super hub, old ADSL router as repeater?

what is your idea of a repeater?

a hub is a repeater - an (adsl) router acts as a repeater with no configuration if you jsut plug stuff into its ether net ports
 
Turn off DHCP on the old router. Give it a static IP, that's outside of the main routers DHCP. Set it's WiFi SSID/Password to the same as the main router, but on a different channel. Plug an ethernet cable in to one of it's LAN (switch) ports and plug it into a LAN (switch) port on the main router.

Dead easy!
 
Westyfield2 said:
Turn off DHCP on the old router. Give it a static IP, that's outside of the main routers DHCP. Set it's WiFi SSID/Password to the same as the main router, but on a different channel. Plug an ethernet cable in to one of it's LAN (switch) ports and plug it into a LAN (switch) port on the main router.

Dead easy!
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Done, was trying to turn of the DHCP, but there was another setting that didn't want to change
 
Westyfield2 said:
Turn off DHCP on the old router. Give it a static IP, that's outside of the main routers DHCP. Set it's WiFi SSID/Password to the same as the main router, but on a different channel. Plug an ethernet cable in to one of it's LAN (switch) ports and plug it into a LAN (switch) port on the main router.

Dead easy!
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Agree ... had this setup for a few years.
 
Westyfield2 said:
Turn off DHCP on the old router. Give it a static IP, that's outside of the main routers DHCP. Set it's WiFi SSID/Password to the same as the main router, but on a different channel. Plug an ethernet cable in to one of it's LAN (switch) ports and plug it into a LAN (switch) port on the main router.

Dead easy!
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Thanks for this! Always wandered how to go about it.

Going to try it out now. :)
 
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