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Can i connect an R6260 to my Virgin hub via a Cat6e cable to give me wifi down my garage ?
Hello , I have a Virgin super hub 3 in my house and need to have internet access in my Mancave down the bottom of the garden (40 metres away) . The wifi signal from the hub was very flaky down there - even with a top of the range TP Link range extender. I need a cable connection down there for my CCTV system and wifi for my laptop and alexa etc
So a colleague rigged this set up for me - currently i have a 40 metre ethernet cable (i think its Cat6e ?) from the back of my virgin media hub , that runs down my fence along my garden to my mancave. Once there- it plugs into the back of an old Belkin Vision N1 wireless router . The belkin then gives me 4 x RJ45 ports ( only one is used at the moment and provides internet for my CCTV ) and gives out a decent WiFi internet signal for my laptop etc under a different network name to that of the virgin hub in my house.
It's all been working fine , but the old belkin router has just died and i need to replace it .
im looking to buy a new NETGEAR (R6260) - AC1600 to replace the belkin.
Will it do the job ?
Can it be configured to give me what i need ?
is this router overkill ? or is there a better option ?
I'm not super savvy with these things , but am willing to give it a go ! . Any help or advice from you guys would be very much appreciated.
thank you
> [...] it plugs into the back of an old Belkin Vision N1 wireless
> router . [...]Not a very detailed description of that connection, or the
configuration of the Belkin router.
> Just setup the R6260 in access point mode. [...]Most likely.
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Use the Router as a WiFi Access Point Only".Don't let the "WiFi" part of that worry you; its LAN Ethernet ports
should still work.> is this router overkill ? or is there a better option ?
It's not wonderful enough to qualify as "overkill" for much, but your
demands don't sound especially great, either. Define "better". If your
old junk was adequate, than almost any new thing (with gigabit/s
Ethernet ports) should be, too. If you try to save the last $2, you
might be able to find something worse than your old junk.
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Yes you could do that.
Just setup the R6260 in access point mode. It prevents a double nat
> [...] it plugs into the back of an old Belkin Vision N1 wireless
> router . [...]Not a very detailed description of that connection, or the
configuration of the Belkin router.
> Just setup the R6260 in access point mode. [...]Most likely.
Visit http://netgear.com/support , put in your model number, and look
for Documentation. Get the User Manual (at least). Read. Look for
"Use the Router as a WiFi Access Point Only".Don't let the "WiFi" part of that worry you; its LAN Ethernet ports
should still work.> is this router overkill ? or is there a better option ?
It's not wonderful enough to qualify as "overkill" for much, but your
demands don't sound especially great, either. Define "better". If your
old junk was adequate, than almost any new thing (with gigabit/s
Ethernet ports) should be, too. If you try to save the last $2, you
might be able to find something worse than your old junk.Thank you Piemans and Antinode for your responses , they were much appreciated.
Apologies for not providing finite detail in my question , but you managed to fathom out my requirement and your instruction & links worked for me.
I went and purchased an R6260 router and after a bit of headscratching i managed to log in to it and set it as an access point.
Following the instructions in the manual i downloaded the nighthawk app , but the app kept failing to connect over wifi using my phone. Instead i had to hardwire the R6260 to my laptop using an ethernet cable and managed to gain access to the routers I.P address and it's menu's that way. I found the menu's to be laid out / worded differently from the instructions but i found what i was looking for eventually and got it sorted in the end.
in any case , it's now set up and working brilliantly . I have dual band WiFi in the Mancave at the bottom of my garden , with a fantastic, consistent signal and blistering speeds compared to my ageing Belkin router . It's definately a welcome upgrade when all i was looking for was to simply get it working again.
thank you again for steering me in the right direction.
Lee
