Using a spare bt home hub 5 to extend wifi coverage. I have just had a home officecinema room built in the garden and the wifi signal is pretty rubbish in there. Your bt home hub comes with a control panel that allows you to configure some basic and more advanced settings. Mar 31, 2016 hi i am moving over to bt tomorrow and have been provided with the bt home hub 5. Using netgear dgnd3300v2 as secondary router to bt homehub 3. But if you find your wifi behaves erratically, dropping connections or stuttering to a stop when youre streaming video, say, youll know its not always plain. So the wifi and dect not working yet on it, but all rest working ok adsl non bt too, ethernet. When you set up any router it automatically picks the. In essence, there are three main parts to using an old router as an extender, you also dont need to use a bt hub specifically, this method will work with virtually any router on the market. Hosting a web site on bt broadband configuring bt home hub configuring your bt home hub port forwarding following on from my previous blog posts about setting up a hobby web site that is hosted at home using your bt broadband, the next article covers how you can make the server you are configuring available for browsing.
Various other things are connected to the hub, eg my wifes pc by cable, a home plug, and various laptops by wifi. User guidegeneral information how to recycle your equipment the symbol shown here and on the product means that the product is classed as electrical or electronic equipment, so do not put it in your normal rubbish bin. Oct 15, 2015 ok, my last update on this matterhopefully this will help othe rpoor souls who have a bt home hub 3 hh3 have finially managed to connect my mbl to laptop with ethernet cable and was achieving speeds of 11mbsec which was the limit my laptop ethernet was capable of. This is useful in propertys where wireless signal problems occur. I powered up the bt hub and when the power light was steady i pressed the reset button at the back of the hub for 5 seconds to give it a reset to default values. Bt home hub 3 adsl wifi router the register forums. I presently connect using a bt business hub 2700hgv and as i have two of these items, i had hoped to be able to configure the set up to make one a repeater to extend the range. D6400 and bt tv configuration page 2 netgear communities. Unable to get orbi router working with bt modem netgear. Hi all, in our previous house we had a home hub 5 with bt infinity connection.
Using a smart hub 6 as a wireless access point range extender with a netgear primary router this is what i wanted to achieve. Sharedband support system knowledge base using your. You cant use it as a repeater, but if you connect it by ethernet to the hub6 you can use it as a wireless access point. Bt home hub only works with a bt broadband service. Before you plug in and turn on your new bt hub you must first configure your cable hub to. How to set up bridge mode on the bt business hub bt. Im trying to set up a repeater with two bt homehub 2. Bt home hub 3 bt total broadband troubleshooting guide engineer installed bt infinity user guides bt home hub 3 bt infinity getting started 201220 version bt home hub 3 welcome to bt infinity bt home hub 3 bt infinity troubleshooting.
Connecting to bt home hub by wifi page 3 o2 community. Yes it is possible to use a 2nd hub 1 as a access point to extend your wired and wireless network around your property. Wan port of the bt hub and the other end into any of the lan ports of the cable hub. The problem i have is the sh6 reboots every 6 days or so and i have a lot of devices connected to the router in my home and find that everyone struggles for bandwidth. Wireless repeater with plusnet hub1 plusnet community. If your 2nd hub 1 has previously been used carry out a. If your router doesnt support wps, go to method 2 without wps button opposite. I have just ordered a new bt broadband line on my home telephone line which i will connect to the second port on the dual wan router via another modem i aleady have. Using a 2nd plusnet hub1 as a wireless access point. Any wireless router with wds can behave as a wireless repeater or wireless access point if the dhcp ip address server is switched off. Nearly all the hubs we get back as faulty are actually fine. Bt home hub 3 and later, or any other router that has a wps button. Setting up the home hub for wifi access can be tricky, so on this page we look up how to configure wireless access.
Sharedband support system knowledge base using your bt. Bt home hub 4rfollow the steps in this guide to set up your kit. Use bt home hub 3 as a repeater for my current wif. Using a 2nd homehub 5 as a wireless repeater bt community. Setting up a bt business hub as a wifi access point. If its not picking up properly, or the ip adfdressing is still causing you problems, you might need to manually give the netgear an ip address, to ensure it doesnt mess with the nat simply give it 192. Voyager 2500v as repeater home bt business community forum. Interestingly my phone will connect to o2s wifi at there shop. Just give it an address outside of the hub6 dhcp range, say 192. Use bt home hub 3 as a repeater for my current wifi network i used to be a data comms engineer and wherever two ethernet port connections were concerned, you always had to use a crossover cable. You need a wireless router to accomplish what you want to do.
Just joined plusnet, was with bt and use a second hub as a repeater for wifi as where router is positioned wifi does not carry through house. Dec 02, 2007 a hub simply will not act as a wireless repeater. Configure the ip address of the secondary routers to be in the same subnet as the primary router, but out of the range of the dhcp server in the primary router. Everything was working ok with hh5 as repeater with plusnet hub1 until today think bt might have done something. Nov 19, 2010 im trying to set up a repeater with two bt homehub 2. I had a bt home hub 3 lying around that hasnt been used for many years we now have a bt hub 5 and so i decided to put it to good use. Page 5 bt home hub connection troubleshooting think you have a faulty hub. Otherwise the transmit pair on one port would be connected to the transmit pair on the other port and the same for the receive pairs. The new bt hub 3 is much better than the old hub 2 in terms of reliability of connection. The internet light on the bt router will never go on set up this way which is correct, if it is on then routing is still enabled a bt voyager router can be purchased through the bt helpdesk and will act as a modem, in many cases this is a far better solution. I just got a bt infinity home hub 5 and want to bridge it to my previous home hub 3. Please note, the bt home hub 3 does not support the broadband talk service. This is not possible in the variety of router that bt buy from 2wire.
I have now updated this setup using the bt hub 5 as an extender, you can see it here. Since this firewall blocks incoming connections you may need open a port through it for certain games and applications. My book live nas bt home hub 3 set up wd community. One of the rooms in my house gets little to no wifi connection. Hosting a web site on bt broadband configuring bt home hub. I have hub upstairs with computer, hard drive and printer but i would like to connect some devices downstairs such as home cinema system and ps3. D6400 and bt tv configuration ils the bt forums suggest connecting the home hub and disabling wifi and then connecting the youview box directly to this.
Unable to get orbi router working with bt modem sorry about that sh6 is smart hub 6 i still have a openreach modem the echolife hg612 from when i had hh3 on infinity. Extending the wireless range of a bt home hub 2 marks blog. Open ports on the bt home hub 3 router port forward. Once youve turned the dhcp server off and set the ip address to 192. Using a 2nd plusnet hub1 as a wireless access poin. This is what i did to get a secureish wifi connection to the internet through my network for an old pc running xp home.
So if you think yours isnt working properly, run through the three steps on the left and check the light if your connection is down or you think your hub is faulty, try these 3 steps before calling us. Also i specifically wanted to know if a bt home hub to a super hub would work as the bt hub is pretty rubbish so i wouldnt be surprised if it didnt work at all. Extending the wireless range of a bt home hub 2 20120504 mark comments update. Mar 26, 2012 using your bt hub 3 as a wireless access point many people prefer to use their existing bt business hub 3 for wireless to avoid having to reconnect all the devices to a new access point. Using a bt home hub as a wireless extender owen kelly. There is no socket to directly connect either a hub phone or standard telephone to this hub so you will not be able to continue using your broadband talk service. Using a 2nd homehub 5 as a wireless repeater the hh5 can be used as a wireless repeater and has to be connected to the router via an ethernet cable, connect the 2nd hub to your pc via the ethernet port, access bt home hub manager on the ip address of 192. When we moved we were sent another home hub 5 for our new infinity connection so we ended up with a spare one. If your other router is wireless, its best to disable the wireless access point within the settings, so you can save power youll still be able to access the web interface via the bt hub this way you will also benefit from the power save option on the bt hub. Before you can use your business hub with sharedband, there are a few steps you need to complete. Ive managed to flash the speedtouch 7g firmware in the bt home hub. I had a lot of problems with the hub 2 with the connection to the internet constantly dropping.
Declarations of conformity bt home hub 3a ce declaration of conformity. These repeaters must support wireless distribution system wds. How can i configure the bt home hub 5 as modem only and connect my router to it. I have a home plug, so can i connect the v3 hub to the home plug upstairs and just use it as a bridge connection. Ok, my last update on this matterhopefully this will help othe rpoor souls who have a bt home hub 3 hh3 have finially managed to connect my mbl to laptop with ethernet cable and was achieving speeds of 11mbsec which was the limit my laptop ethernet was capable of. The second one fails, so the router doesnt fully bootup. My book live nas bt home hub 3 set up my book live. Jan 18, 2014 i just got a bt infinity home hub 5 and want to bridge it to my previous home hub 3. Hi i already have a broadband connection runnng on a bt business line and i have a dual wan wireless router. Bt home hub manager upnp help az wireless broadband home network firewall system port forwarding upnp dmz configuration upnp universal plug and play upnp enables a wide range of applications, such as games and messaging, and devices to connect to each other and work together. I have tried this but the broadband light will not turn on and it also means there are two separate networks. Following on from my previous blog posts about setting up a hobby web site that is hosted at home using your bt broadband, the next article covers how you can make the server you are configuring available for browsing. Firewall configuration for the bt home hub 6router sceenshot back to the bt home hub 6. Dec 31, 2012 this way, your netgear becomes a repeater only, and the bt hh controls the ip addressing.
Using your bt hub 3 as a wireless access point many people prefer to use their existing bt business hub 3 for wireless to avoid having to reconnect all the devices to a new access point. Routers bt home hub 5 modem only mode digitalworldz. I connected an ethernet cable from the any one of the ethernet ports on the hub to the pc ethernet connection. Dhcp is the service that assigns ip addresses to all your devices on your network, this is important since an ip address is an. This way, your netgear becomes a repeater only, and the bt hh controls the ip addressing. Aug 20, 20 configure the ip address of the secondary routers to be in the same subnet as the primary router, but out of the range of the dhcp server in the primary router. Via wifi i was getting 6mb again the limit of my laptops wifi speeds. I ran a cable down from my office on the top floor to the first floor and connected my pc to the hub. Can i use hub3 as a wifi repeater you cant use it as a repeater, but if you connect it by ethernet to the hub6 you can use it as a wireless access point. Bt home hub 6 firewall configuration router screenshot. Dec 08, 2011 this product is awesome just fitted it at a friends bt home hub 3 was next to bt master in a boiler cupboard, and wifi could only be obtained in one half of the house with this access point in the same cupboard, full strength signal throughout the house via ethernet, we placed it on the other side of the house, and signal is full 5 bars in every room. I would be without internet access for days at a time while waiting for bt to fix the problem. I gave the hub a minute or two just to settle down. To use my existing netgear cable router wndr3700v4 as the primary router and use the bt smart hub 6 as a secondary wireless repeater range extender and for the extra 2 usable wired ports in another room in the house.
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