Using Router as Wireless Access Point

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Guys - have never had a need to do this before, but a friend has his BT socket/router at one end of his (rather large) house, so next to no signal in the lounge/kitchen.

I've got a spare router and a couple of powerline adapters that'll do the job of setting up an access point.....

Can you switch off DHCP on the router connected to the BT line and just enable it on the access point router, or does it have to be the router connected to the phone line that's doing the DHCP for any reason?
 
Normally, yes. Depending on the router, you may well be able to install a different rom such as dd-wrt which makes it easier. It's all in the software.........
 
You need to get on the management page on the spare router, disable dhcp on it, then give it a static ip address in very end of the ip range on the original router.

Then connect them together and it will work. I have done this and it works fine.
 
Thanks guys.... as long as I can use DHCP on the access point router, that's all I need. Don't want them to be faffing around with static IP's trying to connect to the other router when at the far end of the house, so will just hide the SSID on it and stick to the one with DHCP enabled......
 
Neil. How is that helping if the router connected to the BT socket is struggling to reach the other end of the house? Surely using that as a pass-thru to the more central router and also using DHCP on that router makes more sense?
 
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Neil. How is that helping if the router connected to the BT socket is struggling to reach the other end of the house? Surely using that as a pass-thru to the more central router and also using DHCP on that router makes more sense?
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It doesn't matter where the DHCP server is, as long as it's only on one machine on the network.
 
as any said it doesnt matter where the DHCP server is as long as its has a link to the rest of th network. personally id keep it on the gateway router to keep things tidy, and if the powerlines go down the rest of the network will still function etc.

thats the way ive got mine, linksys router with DHCP relay set back across powerline to sky router with DHCP/DNS.
 
Na, somebody's confused, and it's more than likely me! If some devices (e.g. his iPad) can't even get a wireless signal from the router connected to the BT line at the far end of the house, how are they going to get an IP address from it if it's acting as DHCP server?

I want the SSID of the original router to be hidden so there's no confusion as to what to use, and no faffing around with static IP's trying to connect to the router that isn't DHCP enabled.

His router is a Talktalk model, and I've got a Netgear DGN1000 to use with it.....
 
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DekHog said:
Na, somebody's confused, and it's more than likely me! If some devices (e.g. his iPad) can't even get a wireless signal from the router connected to the BT line at the far end of the house, how are they going to get an IP address from it if it's acting as DHCP server?
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Because the DHCP server will serve it through the router that he is connected to. DHCP isn't a wireless technology, it is a networking technology so works over wire/wireless/string....

BTW: there must be one and only one DHCP server on the network...
 
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Na, somebody's confused, and it's more than likely me! If some devices (e.g. his iPad) can't even get a wireless signal from the router connected to the BT line at the far end of the house, how are they going to get an IP address from it if it's acting as DHCP server?

I want the SSID of the original router to be hidden so there's no confusion as to what to use, and no faffing around with static IP's trying to connect to the router that isn't DHCP enabled.

His router is a Talktalk model, and I've got a Netgear DGN1000 to use with it.....
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what andy said.

also set the SSID and password the same on both wireless AP, its basically going to let you roam between networks without having to reconnect manually each time.
 
Just to add a question to this,

My mate has built an extension (thick stone walls) and already has a BT router with a Belkin wireless router connected to it via cat5. Can we plug in another wireless router via Cat5 into the Belkin to extend yet again or are there only so many times you can do this?
 
admirable said:
Just to add a question to this,

My mate has built an extension (thick stone walls) and already has a BT router with a Belkin wireless router connected to it via cat5. Can we plug in another wireless router via Cat5 into the Belkin to extend yet again or are there only so many times you can do this?
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Sky is the limit (pretty much, until you run out of ip addresses etc :D )
 
So just disable dhcp on router 2 and 3 and anything connecting to router 3 should be ok?
 
cheers, thought as much but just wanted to check,

thanks
 
As it's BT, you might be better off searching the web for tutorials on using a BTHomohub (as my geeky friends affectionately call it) as an access point.

BUT there's another way :D

You can get WiFi repeaters which also take cat5 connection, so what I reckon you could do is plug the repeater in next to the powerline adaptor and simply connect the two via cat5 :)
They're dirt cheap too £20-£30 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EDIMAX-EW...osters_Extenders_Antennas&hash=item4d03e33e36

Designed to do the job, rather than messing about with hardware that doesn't want to.
 
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As it's BT, you might be better off searching the web for tutorials on using a BTHomohub (as my geeky friends affectionately call it) as an access point.

BUT there's another way :D

You can get WiFi repeaters which also take cat5 connection, so what I reckon you could do is plug the repeater in next to the powerline adaptor and simply connect the two via cat5 :)
They're dirt cheap too £20-£30 http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/EDIMAX-EW...osters_Extenders_Antennas&hash=item4d03e33e36

Designed to do the job, rather than messing about with hardware that doesn't want to.
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Thanks for relpy but all sorted yesterday morning. Your idea wouldn't work as all the routers are powered from different ring main circuits.
 
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