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Use old router as a repeater or switch

mdfire · 2014-01-18 16:35:35

I changed from digiweb to sky broadband this week and installed the Sky Hub modem/router. Surprisingly my broadband speeds seem to have improved dramatically but thats another story. I live in a large house and wifi on the third floor isnt great so I would like to extend that using the old router. I have two spare. 1. An…

18-01-2014 05:35PM

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mdfire

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I changed from digiweb to sky broadband this week and installed the Sky Hub modem/router. Surprisingly my broadband speeds seem to have improved dramatically but thats another story.

I live in a large house and wifi on the third floor isnt great so I would like to extend that using the old router. I have two spare.

1. An Eircom D1000
2. A netgear DGN 2000

I would like to configure one of these to be a wifi repeater at the third floor.

I also have a network printer and pc at that level. Neither are wifi and use ethernet. I only have one network cable there so its a case of pulling cable out between them. Ideally I would also like to configure one of the old routers to be just a switch so both can plug into this along with an ethernet cable from another remote switch. Is this possible? Is it possible to configure one of the old routers to do both?

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