topic Re: New Sky broadband. How to extend? in Broadband

New Sky broadband. How to extend?

cirrusjock — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:55:58 GMT

I just had my gigabit internet installed and it works great.

I have an office/workshop in my garage and a hard wired connection into there. Currently getting 950mb direct to the computer which is great.

I have some other wireless devices in there like 3D printers etc. and these are struggling a bit with the wifi from the house. I'd like to get some kind of wireless router that I can connect into the ethernet and run everything in the garage. I want it to be the same wifi as the house rather than a seperate login so I can move about from garage to house. Is this possible?

I have a TPLink wireless router thing not being used and also a couple of old Sky routers. Would I be able to reconfigure these somehow?

Any advice is much appreciated.

Re: New Sky broadband. How to extend?

mae-3 — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 21:23:45 GMT

@cirrusjock

The TP-Link router should be able to be placed in access point (AP) mode for wifi for that area. The additional Sky routers are of little use, as they cannot be configured in AP mode.

Re: New Sky broadband. How to extend?

cirrusjock — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 09:23:14 GMT

Thanks

I tried this and it creates a new wifi, using the TP link wifi name and password. I'm trying to find a way I can have the same sky wifi in the garage so I don't have 2 seperate wifi networks and can move seemlessly between the two.

Re: New Sky broadband. How to extend?

TimmyBGood — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 10:19:37 GMT

@cirrusjock

There should be settings to change the TPLink SSID and password to match those of the Sky Hub.

Re: New Sky broadband. How to extend?

jamesn123 — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 13:41:29 GMT

@cirrusjock

Either do as @TimmyBGood suggested and change the SSID of that TP-Link router or you could purchase a Sky booster and plug that into your ethernet cable to achieve the same thing. Sky boosters will just copy the SSID & password and allow seamless roaming.