@Pompitous wrote:
Dear community, I'm going slightly crazy trying to add a TP-Link TL-WR841N router as a range extender to my Virgin network. I have to do this in order to send WiFi to a cable wired from our garage running down to an office in a shed the other end of the garden.
- I reset and rename my Virgin Hub 3.0 – all fine.
- Then I add the TP-Link either by configuring it with the TP software, or by WPS PIN via the Virgin configuration settings
- The TP-Link network starts working fine, but then the main Virgin Network stops working so I start over again by resetting the Virgin hub, and am now in a loop where the same thing happens every time no matter how I configure the extender.
Am I doing something wrong in the setup method, or maybe the TP-Link router is a bad choice for this task? Thanks for any guidance.
Have you configured the TP-Link to operate as an access point, or is it still in router mode?
Sounds like an IP conflict (looks like the TP-link uses 192.168.0.1 out of the box, which is the same IP address at the hub..)