sstocky Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Cheers for looking. I have just had sky fibre fitted and the wireless range is bobbins so looking to use the wd-8970 as a wireless access point connected to the sky router via homeplug. Any ssuggestions on the best way to do this - either fixed ip with dhcp off on the 8970 or leave dhcp on and let it get its own ip? Any suggestions welcomed Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clownfish Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 It depends on how the sky router works really. For example my old homehub4 was fine with allowing a second dd-wrt router to act as an access point using a static ip. But my new homehub 5 had to give the dd-wrt router an ip address via dhcp before it would grant it full internet access. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 DHCP will be fine, it doesn't matter what the IP of the AP is really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstocky Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 The problem is i have is that the sky router is 192.168.0.1 and the default ip of the old router is 192.168.1.1 Is there a way to access the old router and turn off modem mode and assign a fixed ip to it? Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 13, 2016 Share Posted April 13, 2016 Plug your PC into and it'll probably put you on 192.168.1.0/24 via DHCP. Then turn off it's DHCP server, give it a static IP of 192.168.0.2 and ignore the WAN port. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstocky Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 without sounding dumb fella, do you mean plug it in direct to the pc and look for it that way, or to plug into the sky router and see if it appears there? Once it then has a fixed ip I can connect via a homeplug from lan port on sky router to wan port on the wd8970? Its muddles my head this for some reason!! cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstocky Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 got it working eventually with a few router resets.... Currently I have two separate SSIDs running, I will have a look at using the same one which hopefully "should" allow me to switch from one to the other with no problems!! Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Posted April 16, 2016 Share Posted April 16, 2016 Sorry, didn't check back after my initial comment, glad you DIY'd it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sstocky Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Cheers Rusty Odd one with the lads PS3 not getting an ip address when connected to the access point but I reckon I just need to assign it a fixed ip first whilst connected to the main router. Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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