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by davidmann8
Sun Jul 17, 2016 10:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Adding a second identical router
Replies: 1
Views: 7215

Adding a second identical router

Hi I want to cascade a second ee brightbox 2 router to my summer house. I can get a ethernet cable there from a power point adapter but hit problems when trying to change the settings on my second router. If I connect the slave router to my laptop with a ethernet cable and then go to ee's ip address...
by davidmann8
Sun Jan 24, 2016 6:52 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Re: Newbie... Adding additional routers

I have sourced some good value cables and they will be run through conduit, eliminating the majority of the concerns mentioned. would this be a problem next to electrical cables? would it cause interference? So from what read router 1 in the house stays as is. the main router and the 2nd would be co...
by davidmann8
Sat Jan 23, 2016 11:02 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Re: Newbie... Adding additional routers

thankyou for helping...
so if i go down the ethernet cable route (because im assuming this is technically easier, im no computer wizard) are these daisy changed, simply connecting one to the other? House to garage, garage to summer house?
by davidmann8
Sat Jan 23, 2016 10:17 am
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Re: Newbie... Adding additional routers

Thankyou....
I'm in a semi detached house.
The first building starts on the corner of my house and is 6m long.
The other is a summer house at the end of my garden 26m away from the rear of the house.

I can actually just very a signal there but not strong
by davidmann8
Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:51 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Re: Newbie... Adding additional routers

No takers...? Im assuming my question is too simple. Could someone please humour me for a minute. I have two outside buildings that i want my wifi properly extended to. Ive just got fibre optic as its now available to me. I also have 3 new routers. Im willing to buy some new powerline adaptors as iv...
by davidmann8
Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:18 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Re: Newbie... Adding additional routers

...by that i mean with very long ethernet cables
by davidmann8
Sat Jan 09, 2016 10:17 pm
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Re: Newbie... Adding additional routers

I could "daisy chain" the additional routers.

Does that work aswell as, or worse than power point adaptors?
by davidmann8
Sat Jan 09, 2016 11:25 am
Forum: General
Topic: Newbie... Adding additional routers
Replies: 10
Views: 18049

Newbie... Adding additional routers

Hi. I'm sure this is basic stuff and covered already somewhere in this forum, so please humour me for a little while. At last fibre optic is available to me so I want to extend my network to my summer house. I'm on ee and have 2 x brightbox 2 routers and a basic brightbox router. I also have 2x comt...