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Ive had satellite internet for years, but its really slow.

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I've had satellite internet for years, but it's really slow. I recently bought a wilson signal booster, a wireless hotspot and a wireless USB adapter and connected my desktop computer to ATT. Its 15 times faster than the satellite.
Problem is, I have a computer operated whole house sound system (Sonos) that is dependent on your router, which is no longer in the loop.

Is there a way to connect the router to the hot spot without going through the computer? When I connect the router and the hot spot at the same time, the computer gets confused...any help would be appreciated.

Submitted: 2 years ago.
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p0llinate :

Is the sonos running on wifi or hardwired ethernet connection? Do you have an additional router you are using besides the hotspot?

p0llinate :

You can have the hotspot and router connected at the same time, but they need to be set to different static Ip addresses and subnets

p0llinate :

You will only have internet on the wifi connection to the hotspot, the 2nd connection (wired I assume, unless you have a 2nd wireless card) to the router will be for local network to sonos only, and not internet connected.

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