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Johny B Good wrote:
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I'm using a cheap, throw away, LinkSys WRT45GW (the crappy one that
you can't install the ddrt firmware to) as an AP. It's just a case of
setting it up to use a unique IP address in the same range as your
existing LAN, plugging one of it's lan ports into your existing router
or ethernet switch, disabling its own DHCP service[1] and configuring
the WiFi to suit your requirements (the wan port is left unused in
this case).

Ignoring the wan port on a WiFi router being used to provide an
additional WiFi AP works because the WiFi AP part of the router is
effectively just hanging off of one of the six lan ports of the
ethernet switch integrated into your 4 port router.

Thanks for that, Johny. I do have the old router - redundant since BT
supplied a new one when I changed to them and fibre.

So since flushed with success in getting the Lidl one working I had a go
at it using your instructions and it's fine. Also allows me to loose a hub
at that location and use it instead. So two birds with one stone.

Anyone want a Lidl range extender? ;-)

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