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nicknoxx writes:
On a related note, I've been meaning to use a spare adsl router to
extend the wireless coverage in the house (the main BT socket and router
are upstairs and coverage downstairs is patchy) and this thread prompted
me to have a go. I had to turn off DHCP but it worked straight away. BUT
it was very slow. Normal broadband out here is about 3500kbps but
through the Netgear router this was reduced to 500 kbps. The two routers
were connected by an ethernet cable. The Netgear router works fine on
it's own.
Anybody know why this might be so?

Could be lots of reasons. How does it know the default route is on the
LAN side and not the WAN side (which is presumably disconnected)?
You should probably disable the router in it (and the WAN side) if it
has that as a configuration option. Basically, you are using it as an
Access Point, but it may not have been designed with configuration
options to allow such a setup.

If the WiFi part can be configured as a Universal Repeater, then you
can just stand it somewhere where it can be seen from downstairs and
it can see the main WiFi router, and you don't need any ethernet cable
at all. However, such a configuration option is probably unlikely in
something which was designed to be an ADSL router (more likely in an
Access Point).

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Andrew Gabriel
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