Hi all, firstly thanks to everyone who has contributed to this guide thus far, it's been extremely informative as I've now read through the entire thread.
I've got a Virgin Media Superhub (
http://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-VMDG480-Virgin-Wireless-Router/dp/B00BRWMO5E) downstairs and I've run an ethernet cable to my PC upstairs. The WiFi coverage is good in most of the house, but it's a bit patchy in places upstairs so I'd like to extend the range by adding a second WiFi router upstairs. I've got an old Netgear router (
http://www.amazon.co.uk/NETGEAR-WGR614-4-Port-Wireless-G-customers/dp/B002GTWRRC/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1388613273&sr=1-1&keywords=netgear wgr614) which I'm hoping to use.
Because I'm running the ethernet cable to both my PC and the router I've bought a TP Link swtich, which seems to be working ok.
Unfortunately, my networking skills being what they are, I'm stuck on step 6 of the long instructions.
6. Set the router's LAN address to one of the "spare" addresses determined previously. Some routers may drop your connection at this point and/or require a reboot. If necessary, do so. The router may also have changed the DHCP range it serves out (leaving your configuration computer with a "wrong" IP address,) so a reboot of the confguration computer to cause it to acquire a new IP address might be necessary. Thence surf back to the router's admin screen using the new IP address you just gave it.
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Here's the DCHP settings page on the Virgin Superhub
I read somewhere that the IP address of the secondary router shouldn't end in a number highter than .254 - so I changed these settings so that the range is 192.168.0.253, which I assume frees up 192.168.0.254 for the secondary router?
I've done a hard reset on the secondary router and I've got the IP details from the primary router, and I've logged in to the secondary router. I've tried to change all of the necessary elements -
Here are some screen shots from the Netgear router
Here's the basic settings
Here's the WAN set up
And here's the wireless set up where I changed the SSID to match my Virgin Router and used the Passphrase from the Virgin router (does it make a difference that the Virgin Router is set to WPA-Auto and the secondary router is set to WPA-PSK [TKIP] - should I change it to WPA2-PSK[AES]?)
So, finally (!) here's the LAN settings page as it originally looked
And here's the message I get when I try to change the LAN IP address to 192.168.0.254
Any idea why I'm being told that the IP address conflicts with the WAN IP Subnet? And is there anything else obvious I've missed along the way?
Thanks in advance for any input, sorry for all the info, from reading other posts the more information up front the better!
Cheers