2 WiFi Networks on one property

[BobBrocklebank]

Hi

I recently moved house and have an annex at the bottom of the garden where my son lives. My son has become increasingly frustrated as the WiFi down there is not very good. We have tried a few different things including placing a booster at the bottom of the house (closest to the annex) and plugging an ethernet cable into this booster and running this cable down to the annex. This improved internet performance but only marginally. We are wondering if we could have two totally independent routers on the same property with two completely differnt IP addresses. This way one router would be for the house and the other for my son in the annex. I have tried to look on the sky website to see if this is an option but I have had no luck. Most tutorials explain how to set up a second router on the same network, but we are interested in having a completely separate network down their in the annex. 

We are not sure if this is our best option, but it is something we are considering. Is this even possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[JimM1]

@BobBrocklebank What is the distance between each of the two buildings that are involved, your booster option is not going to work great.

Have you tried powerline if they are connected on the same electrical supply, though it is also not the fastest may be more reliable!

[TimmyBGood]

@BobBrocklebank 

A second router requires a second circuit (either copper or optical) arriving at the address: that's not impossible (albeit at doubling the monthly cost) but typically would land adjacent to the existing connection.

You could try linking the current router and the ethernet cable with Powerline networking rather than WiFi.

[cuke]

Very possible to have two fibre connections, as long as they're using different routes into the property.

I have Sky fibre as well as a Quickline connection, Sky uses the OR network, whereas Quickline have their own, thus I have two ONR's with the Sky connection one keeping Sky Talk live, then Quickline providing a 1Gb down and 1Gb up internet connection.

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My apologies if this comes across as promoting a provider, I have no affiliation with Quickline other than they are suppling fibre to our property and hope this is permitted.

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[TimmyBGood]

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@cuke wrote:

I got a deal with Quickline that until our Sky contact ends we do not pay anything and only pay £29 per month to Sky for their supply.  Thus every month I receive from Quickline a payment due of £0.00. The contract with Sky doesn't end until Sept 2026 so I think I've got a pretty good deal. 

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Extremely good, and presumably indicative that altnets absolutely prioritise increasing user numbers over profitability as they burn through start-up capital.

Might be advisable to remove that direct link.

[SteveLP]

Why not just run an ethernet cable to the Annex and run a second router as an access point from that. You can run an Ethernet cable about 100 meters with no degradation of signal and will be a lot cheaper than a second internet line installed as a one off cost. 

I found the Sky max router to be useless and bought a cheap AX1800 wifi 6 router off ebay (£28) to use as an access point, gives me another 4 ethernet connections and solid wifi from the middle of the house and luckily I could run the cables under the floorboards so all neat..

[cuke]

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@TimmyBGood wrote:

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@cuke wrote:

I got a deal with Quickline that until our Sky contact ends we do not pay anything and only pay £29 per month to Sky for their supply.  Thus every month I receive from Quickline a payment due of £0.00. The contract with Sky doesn't end until Sept 2026 so I think I've got a pretty good deal. 

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Extremely good, and presumably indicative that altnets absolutely prioritise increasing user numbers over profitability as they burn through start-up capital.

Might be advisable to remove that direct link.

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It's become a bit like credit cards and swapping accounts to keep a zero interest deal.

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[SteveLP]

I saw an article about the state of brioadband in the UK and there are far too many networks for the amount of subscribers. Apparently  they need about a 35% take up to be sustainable, so plenty of altnets will go under if they can't reach that 35% take up for their area. Community Fibre were offering a year  free to me so reckon they just need those numbers on board and then hope to retain them. to survive.