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Can you access your Sky router? If so, can you see what IP address your TP-Link router has been given? Presumably your Sky router is still your DHCP server so will still be giving out IP addresses to everything else on the network, including the TP-Link.
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A bit late, and it sounds like you might have a broken router, but I have a TP-Link set up as my Sky router fine. It should connect fine over wifi with the address you've linked, but I often found it easier to do stuff with a direct ethernet connection. There should be a factory reset button somewhere on the router which should get rid of the custom firmware.
Amusingly, whilst sky will refuse to give out router log-in details, you can get around it pretty easily because they were super lazy when they brought o2's internet service, and didn't bother to assign people new logins, and just set a default.
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4905908
I'm pretty sure that's what I used, but not at home right now to check. It was part of a six month fight to get Sky to recognize that there was a fault outside of our house, which led to everything inside the house getting replaced first. There is also an option to use wireshark to get the connection details when your official sky router does its handshake (?) and use that for the TP Link
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I thought it'd upgrade my network set up to get better wifi signal by using my current Sky router as a modem the using a TP-Link router for the wifi. From what I've read Sky aren't very forth coming in letting you use a third party router so this looked like the simple option (over just using the TP-Link for modem and wifi).
I've now spend the best part of 4 hours trying to access the TP-Link router settings and have got nowhere. I thought it would just be a case of connecting it via an ethernet cable and going to the ip (192.168.1.1) of the router in Chrome. It won't load the page and just bounces back with 'no internet connection'. Am I missing something here? Or is it likely that the router is broken?
Model is TP-Link TD-W8980
I got given it from a friend who put alternative firmware on it (to play nice with a BT internet connection) I thought it could just be a case of putting the TP-Link firmware back on it but to do this you need to get on the router settings page, which I can't access.