[SOLVED] How to link two routers together (or perhaps a different idea?)

Fry2018

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This is new to me, so I'm probably not using the correct terms, and maybe I'm making wrong assumptions, and if so then I apologise. Apologies also if it's in the wrong forum.

The situation is that my neighbour's house now has five security cameras fitted, and working properly. The cameras' leads (they are wired, not wireless) all go through the attic, and meet and go down into his bedroom, and are connected to the camera's hub box (or whatever it's called, the unit that houses the hard drive and everything). The hub box is wired into his bedroom TV, and everything is working fine, he can view the cameras on the bedroom TV, there's no problems with the security system at all.

The thing is, he wants to connect the camera hub box to the internet, so it can email him if say he's at work and one of the cameras detects moving in his yard (he has lots of valuable fish, some of them are *massive*). He doesn't want or need to view the security cameras on the downstairs TV, just for the security camera hub box (which is upstairs) to communicate with the internet, via the house router, which is downstairs. Ideally, he doesn't want to run a cable all the way from the bedroom to the router (from the camera hub box in his bedroom, down to the router in his living room), or to drill a cable though the bedroom floor (for the cable from the camera hub box to the router in his living room) if he can avoid using a long cable.

The router is SKY broadband, which wirelessly connects to the usual stuff (tablet, phone, an Amazon Fire stick type thing). Everything is working with that router, but he has a second router (identical to the first) that isn't being used for anything, and he was hoping that he could somehow introduce the second, previously unused router into the equation, and get the two routers working together, meaning that his camera hub box would be connected by a short cable to a router (call it router two, the new router that would be in the bedroom next to the camera hub box) and that router two would communicate wirelessly with router one (the downstairs router, the one that's connected to the phone line and feeds everything else, i.e. his tablet, mobile phone, etc).

Is this possible, or does it require a different item (not a router) to be connected to the camera hub in place of router two? Please don't assume I know anything about this (I pretty much don't), it's all new to me.

Thanks for any answers.
 
We don't have enough information to answer this. For starters, we know nothing of this "camera hub". What is the brand and model number of this "hub". Can it even be connected to a network? You mention connecting it via "a short cable"? Do you mean by Ethernet cable?

You can connect two routers together. You normally can turn one into something similar to wifi extender. But it can get complicated to configure. If me, I would check out the website for the camera security system for an accessory that is specifically designed to connect those cameras to a network, just for this purpose.
 
Thanks for that.

The best option, IMO, would be to run an Ethernet cable from the camera "DVR" to his router. If he does not want to drill holes, then moving the DVR closer to the router (or router closer to the DVR) might be a better solution.

The web is full of tutorials on how to convert a wireless router into a wireless access point. This would (or should) work with that second router.

An easier solution may be to get something like this wifi range extender.

Then there are powerline network adapters too.
 
To add if I may, Digerati's advice is the only way. I have done this very thing at the paint store that I co-own. The secondary router as an access point and simply plugged the RJ-45/Cat-6 cable in the back of the DVR's ethernet port and to one of the ethernet ports on secondary router.
 
Sorry for not posting earlier, my mate was working away from home (I know what that's like, it's not great). Anyway, he bought a powerline and everything is working fine now.

Thanks for all of the help, it's much appreciated.
 

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