Re-use old sky router

[steveg]

At home I have had sky broadband for a while, and have used the supplied router, and 2 extra Netgear wireless points to cover the whole house and annex.

 

We recently upgraded to the max broadband package, and got sent a new router. The extra speed has made us notice how slow the netgear access points are (they are very old) so I thought I would use the old sky router as an access point.

 

I have disabled dhcp on the old router, and given it a static ip address in the same range as the new one, but outside the dhcp scope of the new router. It is connected to the new router via a cat5 cable. (it was previously connected to the open reach modem via the same port)

 

I can now connect a windows laptop to the new router over wireless, and it works perfectly, getting the full download speed. The problem comes with my Android phone, an android tablet, an alexa speaker and one of our 3 (wired) sky boxes (the other 2 are fine). These now all randomly fail to connect to the internet, and it doesn't matter if they are connecting to the original sky router, or the new one, the same problem happens - sometimes they work, sometimes they don't.

 

I've checked the ip adress, dns and gateway that my phone is getting, and it is correct. I have also tried disabling ipv6 on both routers, and this actually seemed to make it better (until i did this the tablet would not connect at all) but it still happens quite regularly.

 

If I turn off the old router, and then connect to just the new one, all devices work fine.

 

Anyone got any ideas, or should I stop being tight and just buy a new access point?

 

Steve