Sky booster & routers

[Gjp82]

Weve just moved in to a new property, broadband being connected next week and our old router is in a box waiting to be moved to new property - also next week

i do have however a sky booster box (white, three lights on the front, all green - power, connected, wifi) so the property does look like it has wifi left over from previous tennent.  

am i correct in thinking i cant use a booster as a router? 

previous tennents provider was vodafone so not sure if that comes in to the equation, tried my passwords from previous property, no joy, i was thinking of buing another router to see of that worked? 

if not, ill just have to wait but would really apprecite wififor work over the next 7 days 

cheers. 

[TimmyBGood]

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@Gjp82 wrote:

am i correct in thinking i cant use a booster as a router? 

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No, Sky boosters are not routers and don't have the required functionality to accept a WAN connection or provision a network with a public IP, address translation, DHCP or DNS resolution.

[Gjp82]

Hi. Thanks for this, I thought as much. 

if I buy a 2nd hand router that's not been used, would it work? 

[Gjp82]

@TimmyBGood 

[TimmyBGood]

@Gjp82 

If your Sky broadband isn't being provisioned until next week, acquiring your own router now doesn't help at all.