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Guys I need some help with a router problem.
The wife's parents have internet. Their router (Netgear) has an antenna but neither the wife or I have ever been able to pick up a wifi signal, the in-laws only use the internet via a wired connection. Due to their failing health we want to give them an iPad so we can FaceTime but that needs a wifi signal in the house.
So today I went out a purchased a new router and plugged it in. Instantly I got a wifi signal on my iPhone but no internet! Strangle I was then able to pick up many neighbours signals?
Unable to figure what was happening I plugged back in their current router only to discover that failed to connect to the internet? No configurations carried out, just unplugged and replugged???
Eventually after using the computers repair connection software many times, it eventually reconnected whereupon all the neighbours wifi signal disappeared??
****** off but relieved to get them back on the net, we left.
I have just had a thought on how to get wifi in their house but not sure if it will work hence where any computer savvy guy on here will come in. If i plug the new router into the back of their router (which doesn't give a wifi signal remember) would the new router provide the wifi signal we need? Their computer would remain hard wired to their router (so please God it won't drop out again) and the iPad, being the only wifi device in their house, uses the use wifi of the new router, password connected?
Would this work guys? Or is there configurations to be made? I can't see why as I am not extending their current system, just trying to create a new separate one.
Cheers
The wife's parents have internet. Their router (Netgear) has an antenna but neither the wife or I have ever been able to pick up a wifi signal, the in-laws only use the internet via a wired connection. Due to their failing health we want to give them an iPad so we can FaceTime but that needs a wifi signal in the house.
So today I went out a purchased a new router and plugged it in. Instantly I got a wifi signal on my iPhone but no internet! Strangle I was then able to pick up many neighbours signals?
Unable to figure what was happening I plugged back in their current router only to discover that failed to connect to the internet? No configurations carried out, just unplugged and replugged???
Eventually after using the computers repair connection software many times, it eventually reconnected whereupon all the neighbours wifi signal disappeared??
****** off but relieved to get them back on the net, we left.
I have just had a thought on how to get wifi in their house but not sure if it will work hence where any computer savvy guy on here will come in. If i plug the new router into the back of their router (which doesn't give a wifi signal remember) would the new router provide the wifi signal we need? Their computer would remain hard wired to their router (so please God it won't drop out again) and the iPad, being the only wifi device in their house, uses the use wifi of the new router, password connected?
Would this work guys? Or is there configurations to be made? I can't see why as I am not extending their current system, just trying to create a new separate one.
Cheers