My recent home Unifi installation came with an Alcatel fibre modem installed in my store room. During my home renovation, I have wired 2 cat5e connections to the the living hall downstairs and the family hall upstairs. Currently, I have a TP-Link router installed in the downstairs living hall, connected to the modem via the cat5e cable I put in during renovation to provide Wifi coverage to the whole house. Is it possible to connect another Wifi router in my upstairs family hall to the modem to provide better Wifi coverage upstairs?

Tips on how to accomplish this is much appreciated. Thank you.

Thanks for the tip. I happen to have a spare router (left over from terminating my Sg internet contract). I take it that if I just plug it into the 2nd modem port without further configuration work, this will not work? Relocating the TP-Link router as an option sounds good. If no other better option, I may just give it a try and hope that the coverage downstairs is not impacted too greatly.

Once again, thank you very much.

Thanks very much for this clear reply. You came across as a networking expert. If I may just tap your brain for 1 more advice: how do I configure the router after connecting my CCTV DVR recorder to it to enable viewing from Internet devices, e,g, smart phone?

Thanks for the lesson. Will try to understand and try it out when I next go in to JB.

Thanks very much, John & chocobo for the alert. Not sure if I understand enough about the DDNS. Will cross the bridge when time comes and seek to learn more from the experts in this forum who have selflessly helped novices like me.

Indeed, my spare router is a D-Link 850L. Anything to look out for?

Thanks very much for this useful tip.

Further to this topic, while I only have 1 cat5e cable running from my store room where the modem is located to my living room TV cabinet where I install my TP-Link router, would deploying a pair of Cat5 cable splitter to create a "pair" out of the single Cat5 cable worked? 1 out of the pair of split cable to be used to connect the modem in store room to the TP-Link router in TV cabinet; the remaining split cable is used to loop back to the store room and connect to the upstairs Cat5e cable installed in the store room. Workable?

Thank you sifu for sharing your knowledge. Much obliged.

Thanks to the consultation provided by sifus, especially Soonwai here, I am happy to report back that I managed to successfully position my DLink DIR-850L router upstairs and wirelessly connect it to my Unifi TP-Link router located in my living room TV cabinet. I did this by choosing the "wireless bridge extender" option as against the other 2 (Wireless router & wireless AP) options in the Dir-850L router.

I did a speed test upstairs before and after activating the Dir-850L router. When connecting to the original TP-Link router downstairs, I would get about 8 mbps. This leaped up to 20 mbps when I switched to connect to the Dir-850L router. As a reference, my subscribed speed is 30 mbps and I get 28 mbps when seated downstairs connecting to the TP-Link router.

I have set up No-IP DDNS in my JB home. I have also implemented their Dynamic Update Client installed in a notebook PC that I carry with me.
Q: When I return to Sg and login to my Sg home Internet, does the hostname I set up in JB get "updated" with my Sg IP or it maintains my original JB IP?
Thank you.

Thanks very much for this very helpful reply. I will try to set up the DUC in the TP-Link C1200 router instead, if the function is available. Much obliged.

Does it mean that I will just have to uninstall/deactivate the DUC in my notebook PC? Tx.

I had configured DDNS in the TP-Link AC1200 router supplied by Unifi successfully. When I tried to configure for auto-update with No-IP, it failed with the message "Failed to update DDNS". With the same userid and password I keyed in the form, I was able to login to No-IP. Appreciate if Sifus here can diagnose what went wrong or suggest what to try to resolve the problem. Thank you.

Found a temporary solution in TP-LINK Tech Support Forum, testing it and it works.

"And there is a temp solution for this : When you use PPPoE dial-up, please change it to Dynamic IP, and then back to PPPoE dial-up."

Thanks very much, Vampire & Soon Wai for your inputs

I did What is my IP on my mobile phone and notebook PC connected to my Unifi home network. The returned info were:
- 147.158.21.70, and
- 2001:e68:543b:16dc:b18f:cdea:56ba:b388

When I login to No-IP to check, the IP shown is that shown by my mobile phone. Any Sifu can shed light on this? 2 different IPs? Thanks

Would I be view my home CCTV with the IPV6 address as well?

Terima kasih

I hv subscribed to the Unifi 30M package. When I was subscribing to the package at RM139, I did not ask for a specific TV package. When I received my 1st bill, I note that it was the Jumbo Lite that I was billed for. From the info on their web site, the Sports Pack is also going at RM30. Would I be able to swap the Jumbo Lite with Sport Pack? Anyone has past experience to speak of? Tq.

Tqvm for this very +ve answer.