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Old Eircom router to extend signal

  • 24-02-2012 7:49pm
    #1
    El Inho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭


    ok this is my situation.

    we changed to vodafone broadband and the modem had to me moved to a new location in the house as the old really long cable broke.

    so now part of the house is cut off from broadband signal.

    now we do have an old eircom router (netopia).

    is there anyway to use that as a kind of extender? seems like a logical idea for some reason.


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  • #2
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    If you got an ethernet cable and plugged the netopia into the current broadband modem with it, the netopia would also work as a wireless network for your house and you could place it wherever, depending on how far you can run a cable from the current broadband modem/router.


  • #3
    El Inho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭El Inho


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    If you got an ethernet cable and plugged the netopia into the current broadband modem with it, the netopia would also work as a wireless network for your house and you could place it wherever, depending on how far you can run a cable from the current broadband modem/router.

    tried that to no avail.

    is it really as simple as ethernet from modem to modem ??


  • #4
    lucernarian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,235 ✭✭✭lucernarian


    You have to make a few settings changes to the netopia modem (like switching off the DCHP server of the netopia) but I've tested this years ago and it worked fine. I used a netopia modem/router to extend the signal from a digiweb router. If you have newer firmware, the Netopia has the option of changing the WAN mode from DSL to ethernet, so it makes the process much easier. If you turn off DCHP and plug in a cable from the netopia to the current router then I think it should work fine. I can't remember what other settings might have to be changed.


  • #5
    El Inho
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,655 ✭✭✭El Inho


    To_be_confirmed wrote: »
    You have to make a few settings changes to the netopia modem (like switching off the DCHP server of the netopia) but I've tested this years ago and it worked fine. I used a netopia modem/router to extend the signal from a digiweb router. If you have newer firmware, the Netopia has the option of changing the WAN mode from DSL to ethernet, so it makes the process much easier. If you turn off DCHP and plug in a cable from the netopia to the current router then I think it should work fine. I can't remember what other settings might have to be changed.

    yup switched off the DCHP and then changed around the bridging options.

    thanks a million! ever in kilkenny i owe ya a pint! sound!


  • #6
    Sponge Bob
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    you can even run ethernet over telephone wires...2 pairs required. It will work @ 10 mbits or so......if it works at all. :)


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