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Router To Router

  • 30-08-2016 10:24am
    #1
    B-D-P--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭


    Hi all,
    We've had to move back to an apartment behind folks house for family reasons.

    I am toying with the idea, instead of getting into a contract with vodafone, can I run a cat5 cable from their house into the rear of my old Vodafone box and use that for internet or do i need a certain type of router to do this?

    Thanks in advance

    Billy


Comments

  • #2
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    - Yes its possible
    - Technically may be against the TOS in their vodafone contract as the service is for one dwelling/customer
    - If your apartment has its own ESB supply its dangerous to run copper cabling between the two, use fibre or wireless


  • #3
    B-D-P--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭B-D-P--


    ED E wrote: »
    - Yes its possible
    - Technically may be against the TOS in their vodafone contract as the service is for one dwelling/customer
    - If your apartment has its own ESB supply its dangerous to run copper cabling between the two, use fibre or wireless

    Cool, Thats what I need to know, its run of the same power supply.
    Maybe a Point to point could be an option all the same.
    Theres no restricion on my old vodafone router to stop this? eg I dont neat a netgear router?


  • #4
    ED E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 36,170 ✭✭✭✭ED E


    Nope, you just need to disable DHCP and set a different IP on the apartments unit.


  • #5
    Pete67
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,257 ✭✭✭Pete67


    Assuming you want to separate your apartment network from the house one then you need a cable router, one with an ethernet WAN port. Connect one of the LAN ports on the house router to the WAN port on the apartment router, and configure the apartment WAN for DHCP. Then just enable DHCP on the LAN of your apartment router but make sure to use a different subnet, for example if the house router is giving out 192.168.1.x addresses, configure the apartment one to provide 192.168.2.x addresses. Then configure your WiFi on the apartment router and off you go. The max length of the cat5 cable is 100m.

    Suitable basic cable router here


  • #6
    B-D-P--
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,167 ✭✭✭B-D-P--


    ED E wrote: »
    Nope, you just need to disable DHCP and set a different IP on the apartments unit.
    Pete67 wrote: »
    Assuming you want to separate your apartment network from the house one then you need a cable router, one with an ethernet WAN port. Connect one of the LAN ports on the house router to the WAN port on the apartment router, and configure the apartment WAN for DHCP. Then just enable DHCP on the LAN of your apartment router but make sure to use a different subnet, for example if the house router is giving out 192.168.1.x addresses, configure the apartment one to provide 192.168.2.x addresses. Then configure your WiFi on the apartment router and off you go. The max length of the cat5 cable is 100m.



    Thanks to both, Very helpful.


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