topic Re: Extenders cannot connect to Internet in Broadband

Extenders cannot connect to Internet

Stewart3849 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:31:58 GMT

I am trying to connect Netgear extenders using WPS but they cannot access Internet through the Sky Max hub. They seem to have invalid IP addresses assigned with 192.168.1.xyz instead of 192.168.0.xyz. How can I fix this?

Re: Extenders cannot connect to Internet

Chrisee — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:28:16 GMT

@Stewart3849 using third party extenders with a Sky Mac hub is not recommended as they often hit issues more WiFi is not necessarily better WiFi. Without knowing the details of the units it sounds like they are not set up properly check they are configured to operate in extender mode.

However a better setup if you have more than one extender is to connect the first unit by Ethernet to the Sky hub in access point mode and then connect the other extenders to that unit creating a Netgear mesh network. You can then turn off the hub's WiFi to avoid both the two networks interfering and issues with the Sky hub's ability to switch to higher channels in the 5FHz band which some third party extrnders cannot follow.

Re: Extenders cannot connect to Internet

Stewart3849 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:44:53 GMT

Thank you. That sounds like a good solution, although I'm surprised that Sky don't support both Mac & Windows!

Thanks for your help.

Re: Extenders cannot connect to Internet

Chrisee — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:16:21 GMT

@Stewart3849 wrote:
Thank you. That sounds like a good solution, although I'm surprised that Sky don't support both Mac & Windows!

Thanks for your help.

@Stewart3849 Sky Broadband supports any operating system you want to use I use both Mac and Windows on my connection plus ios, Android, Linux etc etc.

Re: Extenders cannot connect to Internet

Stewart3849 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:58:27 GMT

But apparently not Netgear!

Re: Extenders cannot connect to Internet

Chrisee — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:42:04 GMT

@Stewart3849 Netgear is a third party manufactiurer and as a general rule dont mix different WiFi kit as theyvare designed to work together nothing to do with Sky specifically.