Using multiple sky routers

[james_zy]

Hi all, was wandering if there was a way to use more than one sky router in my house. The walls are too thick to use just one wireless connection, and considering i have a live telephone socket next to the pc with poor coverage, is it possible to use a second sky router as an access point? I have my user name and password from sky (************@skydsl + **********, but i don't know what to do with these. Any help would be much appreciated.

[the_sky_goat]

It's not possible to do that with the Sky router. If you can't run a cable then you may want to use a Powerline ethernet connection - especially if you are running a desktop computer.

[davefaz]

I replaced my wireless with powerline. Although more expensive, it is far more reliable.

[james_zy]

Cheers guys, looks like I will be doing that. Any brand recomendations/prices?

[James67]

One product that might be exactly what you need if you want to continue using wireless, is Netgear's WGXB102 kit. You plug one of the units into a mains socket next to your router, and hook it up to the router using an Ethernet cable. Then you plug the other unit into a mains socket close to where your far-away PC or laptop is and it acts as a second wireless access point for your Sky Broadband connection.

I haven't tried it myself, but apparently it works really well. Googling around for it, it looks like you can get it for around the £70/80 mark. A bit pricy perhaps, but if you've got a wireless-unfriendly house and you don't fancy running Ethernet cables around the house, it does seem like a good solution.

[richone54]

here is a thread i started when i got a devolo-homeplug-adapter-kit

got mine from PC world (just down the road from me, and did not want to wait) but you may be able to get cheaper online somewhere

works great for me

[jonny1st]

unfortunately u can't use the sky router as a bridge, but if ur gonna try a powerline adaptor it's worth looking on ebay for them, starting as low as £6.

[markmooney1]

Hi, I have recently setup my sky broadband. Connecting directly with a network cable to the laptop works fine and so does wireless at close range.
The signal upstair is poor so I am using the Netgear powerline av ethernet adaptors. I used this before with virgin and it worked fine. The sky wireless router is a segem. 2 yellow ports a green and a blue. I am feeding a network cable from the yellow port in the sky wireless broadband router into the netgear powerline ethernet adaptor and then a cable from the ethernet adaptor upstairs into the laptop. I am getting no connection. I have tried resetting the adaptors and different ports but to joy. 2 lights out of 3 are static on the adaptor. The light in the middle of the adaptor is not coming on. Its the one with the symbol of a house with a plug inside. Any help to connect would be apprciated. As I said it worked fine with the virgin modem and a d-link router.

[PaulSky]

Do the plugs set themselves up as VM used a different IP range I think.

[Undecided Adrian]

the plugs are invisible to the home network as all they are providing is a adaptor to the cable.

Try putting the plugs next to each other and see if that works and if not try a different port on the router and make sure the ethernet cables are working.