Sr102 on 38mb fibre want to bridge help please...

right have just joined up back with sky on 38mb fibre with sr102 router.

did not realise on the wifi on it was bad with thruput speeds, now have read can't hook up your own router directly but can hook up a second router as a bridge using sky box as a modem only.
also advice on how this hooked up any links appreicated.

so questions are this can i use any router as a bridge and achieve speed thruput or does it have to be a vdsl router as that part would not be used as seeming to encure more expense.

looking to future proof as well so looking to include new AC standard as well as having usual n and so on.

any recommendations to which product to get as well as have never had to do this either and is all new to me in this way just to get speeds wirelessly i should have.

many thanks in advance

basil

Use sr102 in router mode and configure additional devices as wireless access points rather than routers

I'd just buy a wifi access point instead of messing around with additional routers. I bought a D-Link DAP-1665 access point. It's cheap and cheerful but works surprisingly well.

In reply to a post by simon194:

I'd just buy a wifi access point instead of messing around with additional routers. I bought a D-Link DAP-1665 access point. It's cheap and cheerful but works surprisingly well.

That is a good price for an access point, and it supports AC - excellent.

Last year my friend had wireless range issues with his Sky hub, so we bought a £60 dual band N TPLink router from PCworld and turned off DHCP on the TPLink and the WiFi on the Sky hub, and sat them next to each other. Amazing difference.

can a wireless acces point be wired up by ethernet and then transmit wifi?

its just i thought they are basic wifi repeaters/extenders e.g connect from wifi and the problem with the sr102 is the wifi is rubbish speed thruput and thats what im trying to get away from but if could connect from ethernet from sr102 that could solve the issue.

cheers basil

also as a thought isn't worth trying to update wireless acces point guide as alot of these are from latest of 2012?

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/hardware/reviews.html#3

In reply to a post by Basil1234:

can a wireless acces point be wired up by ethernet and then transmit wifi?

Yes, as opposed to a wireless extender.

In reply to a post by Basil1234:

can a wireless acces point be wired up by ethernet and then transmit wifi?

Yes exactly.

The SR102 WiFi is sadly old school and not up to the faster speeds with FTTC.

Both BT and TalkTalk provide better WiFi in their routers, Sky seem to be late updating theirs.

cheers guys right have found this looks like will do job nicely
have a read and tell me your thoughts please
will work as an extender or a wired access point and speeds look good £55

http://www.amazon.co.uk/EX6150-100UKS-802-11ac-Exten...

http://netgear.co.uk/home/products/networking/wifi-r...

cheers basil

Takes several weeks to test and write each one, and in that time others have done all their 300-400 word reviews based on what the box says, so we end up with little to no benefit from the time taken.

Hence why no new ones for a while

While that has an Ethernet port not sure it accepts the input signal over the Ethernet and broadcasts it over Wi-Fi, reads more like it can pick up existing Wi-Fi and re-broadcast and you can also add a games console etc via the Ethernet port.

The Netgear WAC120 will give you 802.11ac in the way we have described.

cheers andrew and ordered many thanks for your help

basil

right had it all turn up today what people should be aware is with the wac you need to configure you own pc with a static ip to set it all up, bl00dy pain netgear!
in the end i asked my neighbour who works for ibm to sort it out which he did

anyway cut a long story short now all up and running at AC speeds

and getting near enough my 38mb now wireless

results below

http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/4565037494

thanks for everyones help

basil

Yeah access points and Ethernet bridging devices tend to be a little more fun to set-up, the variety of operating modes tend to make it difficult.

HINT: Keep a note of the settings on paper in a handy place as in six months you will have forgotten what you did.