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Old 09-03-2022, 12:39 PM   #15
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Default Re: Using Router as Range Extender

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Originally Posted by Citroënbender View Post
The new modem/router is wifi 6, downgradable to wifi 4. It’s a pretty fancy piece of kit (battery backup and 4G SIM backup), apparently Telstra only started supplying them a few weeks ago.

It’s all working fine, speeds are good. But until I’m properly cabled to the “home orifice” there’s the need for a workaround. I can’t install a wifi 4/6 card on my desktop without upgrading to W10/11 and that update would (in common sense) require a newer HDD as it’s getting a bit iffy.

So a cable in, is the simple solution - and I’ve outlined why a floor cable is not suiting me well, which is where the wireless bridge comes in.
You should be able to simply plug a patch lead from a lan port into a lan port on your old modem router and the old one should function as a wireless router. Thats what i did for my mum when she went from adsl to nbn. The nbn modem didnt wireless very well compared to the netgear adsl modem she had, so i just plugged them up and it solved that issue.
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