Superhub in 1 room to Wireless router in another room via long ethernet

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Trickie90

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Hi,

Due to the VM superhub giving me wifi range grief for years i'm looking to put the superhub in modem mode and use an external router. I'd like the external router to be more central within my flat... to do this I was planning on buying 25m of ethernet cable so I could connect the superhub in one room, ethernet cable through a hallway and connect to a router in the main room I want connection. Would this work? Would I see a dip in connection speeds?

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I have used a tp powerline and it's beyond useless, the connection keeps dropping.
I've been told to stay away from network extenders
Relocating the super hub costs £99 quid and to be honest the superhub is pretty poor.
I'm pretty useless with all this networking malingo but i'll try to understand and learn

Any other suggestions would be welcome but I'm running out of ideas..

Thanks
Nickie
 
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VincentP

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I've never heard of a "superhub", but I'm guessing this is going to act as your modem and it presumably has a DHCP server built-in.
When you disable wireless in this device you should also disable DHCP.
Connecting an external router via an ethernet cable is fine. You need to configure it to use the modem IP address as the default gateway address.
 
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Trickie90

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Hi sorry I should have been more specific, Superhub is Virgin media's default wireless router/modem. Is setting up an external wireless router through the modem an easy task?

Thanks for your response
 
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Hi sorry I should have been more specific, Superhub is Virgin media's default wireless router/modem. Is setting up an external wireless router through the modem using it's ip address easy for a novice?

Thanks for your response

 
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No configuration required in the modem other than disabling wireless and DHCP.
Configuration in the external router is to assign the modem IP as the default gateway and to assign devices that connect an IP in the same range.
Easiest way is to look at the settings your PC is getting from the superhub now.
Open a command prompt.
Type "ipconfig /all"
You should see the network adapter that is connected. Use the same settings assigned to this adapter to configure the settings that will be assigned by the router.
 
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I'm running on osx. Fortunately with the "superhub" (not so super) you can flick a switch within it's settings that put it into modem mode. If it's automatic that's fine.

One last question if I may...
Upon setting the wireless router up, is it easy to access it's interface and assigning my own security password? I've read that most wireless routers come with a standard default admin and password. If that's the case I will definitely be ok

again thank you for your patience and help :)
 
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They come with a default user name and password, but no wireless security.
Connect to the router with a cable before attaching it to the modem or other devices.
Use the same steps as above to find the gateway assigned to your machine, which will be the router.
Open a browser and connect to http://X.X.X.X where X.X.X.X is the IP of the router.
Use the default username and password to connect and then you can change this password and configure WPA security for your wireless devices.
 
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