What do I do with old router ?
 

Question says it all. Do I throw it ( safely of cause) away :confused:

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I'd keep it as a back up, or extension.

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Or fleabay it.

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If theres no real value in selling then...

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Depends what the router is.

Many can be used as an additional access point to extend your wireless range, but some aren't useful for this either.

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netgear vmdg280 old virgin upto 20meg modem:D

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Get them to collect it http://about.virginmedia.com/ourworl...cts/pick-me-up

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Oh God.


Might I suggest you burn it in a fire?

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That would probably give off toxic fumes. I'd recommend using thermite, so any toxic waste is also vaporized.

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:LOL:

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Mount Doom should do the trick.

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i took mine to the local tip/recycling center

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I got my gear upgraded with a superhub today, so I have a netgear router twiddling its thumbs. I'm thinking of piggybacking it to extend range. is there a way I should attempt this procedure?
The netgear router is about 18 months old (got the gaming router because it was better) and bar from the wireless broadcast signal needing to be changed, I see no reason not to keep it in active service :-)

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The superhub doesn't make a very good router, so my advice would be stick it in modem mode and go back to your netgear.

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just as an addon, what is the actual range of the superhub as regards 'picking up a signal'?
still buzzing a week on (clearly not used to all this fancy technology, but hey - sticking with the learning curve!)
;-)

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There's no simple answer as it depends on both the superhub and what device you're using (phone, laptop and the components within etc.). Suffice it to say, the SH1 tends to have shocking range, while the SH2 is about on par with other routers. You should be able to get reasonable coverage within most normal houses.

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yeah, if you want an idea of what I call average performance and what I think the majority of us have; my Linksys router covers the entirety of my my house upstairs and downstairs, outside in my garden (which is fairly large) and a good 20m out the front of my house in the street.

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TBH in terms of transmission strength, antenna efficiency, and signal distribution the Superhub is just fine. It will happily transmit the maximum legally allowed power in a perfect sphere in all directions. The signal strength isn't the problem.

As the saying goes, it's not the size that matters, it's what you do with it.

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The old router should at least serve well as a 100meg wired switch. I actually use an old router as such. It is an n150 router but the WiFi is switched off and it just acts as a wired switch for my TV/PVR/BR.

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can you shove a antenna/aerial in the superhub ?

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If you have to ask, then No.

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I have opened old superhub 1 netgear vmdg480 . Suprisely there was a mini pci express wireless card inside. Removed it and put it in my laptop. It is a Dell Wireless 1520 wireless-N wlan mini card. Windows 10 recognised it automatically and it was ready to use. However I have donwloaded the dell driver and updated the driver manually from device manager (the installer of the dell driver doesn't work on windows 10).
It works perfectly. Also there was two PCB antennas in the router as well. I'm going to put them in my laptop later and try if they any better than stock antennas. But the card works with old antennas as well. But I'm not sure they might be 5ghz antennas so worth to try. So dont throw them away.
Upgrade your old wifi card for free. :)

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Not really surprising, we did that four years ago.

No it's not. It's a Broadcom card, nothing to do with Dell whatsoever.

It's not terrible but you can get far better for £15, so I don't consider it worth the effort.