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    which wireless router now i am confused please help

    I asked the question on the forum to seek help, and not to be ridiculed. I had rather prefer silence or no response to my question rather than the ridicule urge.
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    which wireless router now i am confused please help

    Hi All. I am looking for a wireless router that will provide complete wireless coverage for a rather large house. There are 6 rooms in the house and I am looking at a solution that will allow for excellent wireless coverage all around the house. I have wired CAT 6 cables in the hallway upstairs...
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    How can i do this and what does this mean in laymans terms ?
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    Luci openwrt 19.07.4
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    Despite the fact that its openwrt which is supposed to open up opportunities. The issue I have now is that if I connect to the wifi, because DHCP is disabled and therefore it cannot get an IP, it doesnt appear to be getting directives from the main house router.
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    The shocking thing is that I have configured the router the way I described it. I cannot ping the home router when connected to the AP router via a cabled connection, this is despite a cabled connection to home LAN on port 2 on rhe access point. I expected it to work like a wireless hub aka...
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    Can you please explain what I need to do. The way I had this configured on Nother router us as follows. Home network 192.168.1.x Gateway 192.168.1.254 New AP router. Set the router IP to 192.168.1.2 Disable DHCP as the main house router will dish out DHCP ip. Disable firewall on openwrt...
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    I didn't turn off the radios. Guessing you mean WiFi here ?I didn't plug into WAN port, just one of the 4 lan ports.
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    Tearing my hair out, all i want it an access point. converting BT home hub 5 openwrt to an access point

    Hi, I have a main wired network all around the house, however the wifi int he house doesnt extend to my outbuilding office but I have cabled cat 6 connection from my outbuilding to the main house, sow hat I did was to connect that to an unused router and concerted it to an access point, that...
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    Nightmare with routers what do i do now ?

    Hi All. I have got EE fibre broadband (EE smart hub) at home and for the last 4 months I have had a nightmare with getting stable internet access at home. As we all work from home these days it has become even more frustrating. I have summarised my issue below. Setup/ Location of router The...
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    ASUS AC88U or AC86U or which one

    Hi all. I just found out that the ISP router cannot be bridged. So I'm thinking of getting a belkin play N600 to replace the ISP router and use this in bridge mode if it supports it. Does anyone have any recommended router that I can use in bridge mode ?
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    ASUS AC88U or AC86U or which one

    o Can the ISP box be bridged? What do you mean by this ? o Can house AC86U WiFi ))) serve the outbuilding (probably not)? o How to implement a VPN for some/all clients? Yes o How to implement secure remote access? Yes o How to manage 32max/17min Mbps ISP bandwidth? o Are there TV/phone service...
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    ASUS AC88U or AC86U or which one

    The outbuilding router is connected to the switch directly via a Cat 6 cable.
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    ASUS AC88U or AC86U or which one

    Hi, Thanks for the response, I will read your notes thoroughly. I feel a picture paints a thousands words, so I have sketched what I have and hope you can somehow explain to me how to optimise it please. For the outbuilding, there are 6 x network cables going into the 24 port switch, wired all...
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    ASUS AC88U or AC86U or which one

    The EE router has a feature called WAN port, if set to ON, ethernet port 4 is used for your broadband connection. I now have the AC86u router. It is new and manufactured this year, what do I need to do from.a config perspective please. Do I need any firmware upgrade etc and how will I configure...
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