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    Home network speed issues

    Hi folks, We've just had FTTC locally so I now have BT Infinity which is giving me 26mb download on my home hub 4 versus 1.3mb last week pre-FTTC. Great news. Until I looked at the speed of my network at all the access points I have installed. I have an old house with very thick walls so I...
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    Tim, are you saying: 1. Add a new router into the network which provides the broadband connection 2. Connect my existing house router to the new router and hang my home LAN off the existing router as I do now 3. Connect the cottage router to the new router How do I set up the new router...
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    I have set the Primary router to automatically get an IP from the ISP I have set the primary router's LAN IP to 192.168.0.1 I have set the primary router DHCP range to 192.168.0.2 - 240 (because I already have clients connected with assigned IPs at both ends of this range and don't want to...
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    Thanks Captain! I'll give this a go and let you know how I get on.....
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    This is what I have in place already and it works absolutely fine in extending access to my LAN over wi-fi to distant areas of the property, but clients connected to the AP can see clients connected to the main router which is no good for my network security. I need to stop AP connected clients...
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    I'm afraid I remain completely stymied. My main house router which is connected to my incoming phone line and therefore provides my broadband is set up as the LAN DHCP server with IP address 192.168.0.1 and subnet mask 255.255.255.0. DHCP start address is 192.168.0.2 and end address is...
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    adding another message so I get instant email notifications
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    Still confused Thanks Tim, read the article but don't really get it. I think it is saying that each of my second routers should be using dhcp but on a different subnet range than the house router and in that way devices on the different subnets can't see each other. Am I on the right lines...
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    Guest Access LAN and WAN Question

    Hi folks, not terribly technical but have managed to achieve the following so far: Main router and broadband modem is a Netgear DGND3700 which serves the house. Attached via powerline networking are 2 DGN1000s with DHCP turned off and reserved addresses outside of the DGND3700 IP range...
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