Using a spare BT Home Hub 5 to extend wifi coverage?

tweedbean

tweedbean

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Hi all, in our previous house we had a home hub 5 with BT infinity connection. When we moved we were sent another home hub 5 for our new infinity connection so we ended up with a spare one.

I have just had a home office/cinema room built in the garden and the wifi signal is pretty rubbish in there. Our home hub is in the middle of the house and works perfectly for all rooms excluding the garden room. Is it possible to connect our spare home hub 5 to our home network via ethernet cable, as the house also has a CAT5 network, at the end of the house nearest the garden room, boosting the wifi signal at that end of the house?
 
So I gave this a quick try last night with no joy, Here are the steps I followed, let me know if I missed something obvious.

I plugged my spare home hub into my laptop via Ethernet cable(Thinking about it I could have done this over wifi) and amended the following:

# In the DHCP network range, set to "Configure manually", start address as "192.168.1.1" and end address as "192.168.1.252"
# I switched wifi to manual channel 6.

I then unplugged the Ethernet cable and placed the spare hub next to an Ethernet socket in the house and connected via cable to that socket, using the red WAN socket on the back of the hub. All sockets in the house feed through to a single switch which in turn is linked to our main home hub via an ethernet cable in one of the yellow sockets on the hub. I have checked the Ethernet socket on the wall and there is definitely and internet feed through to it.

When connecting via wifi to the spare hub, it connected but no internet connection was present.

Any thoughts?
 
Thanks for the fast reply.

I changed the IP but dont remember turning off the DHCP, doh.

So if I connect an ethernet cable from the wall socket to one of the yellow ports on the 2nd router, it should then pick up an internet feed that I can utilise via wifi?
 
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