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Hello all. As per previous posts I have left BT and gone to Sky Fibre. I am looking at extending my wireless coverage through the house.
I will soon have Cat5e cable between the Sky Hub and my living room via a socket at each end.
Could I plug the BT Homehub into this via a patch cable and extend my poor wireless coverage through the house?
Also could it be used like a switch instead of me buying one (I know they are only about fifteen pounds but it all counts!)?
Failing that, I shall buy a switch and also the wireless extender from Sky for £20.00.
Please let me know your thoughts and if I am way off with my ideas!
Thanks,
Giggsy
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Yes, that should work.
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Should work, http://www.coolwebhome.co.uk/wap/configuring-wap.html shows what to do with different hardware, but the concepts are the same
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Excellent! Thanks both for the response. Best get reading as I have no idea what I'm doing!
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Well I tried and failed miserably. Do I also need the Openreach Modem attached? I have connected the homehub to my pc via ethernet and the mains but cannot get the homehub settings at 192.168.1.254 to come up. It just says no internet access?!
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Don't use the WAN connection on the Homehub, use the LAN connections only.
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That'll do it. Think I have it now - thanks Batboy!
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Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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Well it is working but very slowly. More worringly, the Sky +HD light on my sky router has gone out. I changed the IP address of the BT Hom Hub to 192.168.1.255 as I think that is out of the range it gives. Or is that out of the range of all routers?
I might be better with a switch and the Sky wireless repeater I think!!
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Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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Additionally, when I go to Network and Sharing Center in Windows 8.1 and click on Ethernet IPv4 Connectivity says Internet but IPv6 Connectivity says No network access. Was it always like this or have I done something wrong?!
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Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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You should turn DHCP off on the Homehub. What is the DHCP range on the Sky router?
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You want to put the homehub onto 192.168.0.200
Then turn off DHCP on the homehub.
ATM you have the homehub set to an IP entirely out of the sky hub meaning they shouldn't talk to one another properly. Failing that give sky a call as they will likely send a extender for free if you sweet talk them.
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Hello BatBoy - thanks for replying at such a late hour, although with a name like that maybe I shouldn't be shocked!  The starting ip address is 192.168.0.2 and the ending is 192.168.0.254. Is 254 the maximum range? I can't use 192.168.0.1 as that's the one for accessing the Sky Hub. Thanks again for helping me through this as I have no clue!
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Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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Do as ukhardy07 suggests and it should work. The ipv6 isn't an issue.
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ukhardy07 - if I use 192.168.0.200 won't that conflict with the Sky Hub as its range is 2 to 254? Thanks for replying!
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Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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Yeah, you can always set the end of the range on the Sky router to be 199
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If you use 192.168.0.2 it would be an issue
Sky router will issue every device an IP staring 192.168.0.2
So first decide will get 192.168.0.2 second .3 etc
The homehub also needs to talk to the sky router. To do this it needs to be in the range of the sky router.
Having it at 192.168.0.200 will only cause an issue if you connect 198 devices.
Having homehub at 192.168.0.2 would be an issue as the first device you connect would also be trying to use the same ip. Hence a conflict
Homehub at 192.168.0.200 works as it talks to sky router nicely but it's high enough that other devices will never get an ip this high so no conflicts
Make sure that after setting homehub up you disable homehub dhcp
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To sum up only a conflict if connecting hundreds of devices (unlikely)
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BatBoy and ukhardy07 - thanks for replying again so late and bearing with me. I shall try your suggestion of setting the homehub to 200 and let you know how i get on. Ihave disabled DHCP already on the homehub. Just want to make sure I don't screw anything up on the Sky Hub!
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Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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To be honest, the IP address of the Homehub doesn't really matter as long as it's valid. But .255 isn't valid.
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Plugged home hub back in and can't get back into it to change the settings now!!!
BT Infinity 2 - Predicted speed 54.7Mbps down/15.7Mbps up. Actual speed 42Mbps down/4.5Mbps up... Left BT as they were poor...
Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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You can always factory-reset and start again
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Factory reset completed and ip address changed. Still really slow though. Won't even stream youtube to my phone properly. Might be a duff Cat5e patch cable tho. Shall try again once the proper stuff is installed. Thanks again for your kind assistance. I know how infuriating it can be when you find something easy yourself and explain it to others! Regards, Giggsy.
BT Infinity 2 - Predicted speed 54.7Mbps down/15.7Mbps up. Actual speed 42Mbps down/4.5Mbps up... Left BT as they were poor...
Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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Factory reset completed and ip address changed. Still really slow though. Won't even stream youtube to my phone properly. Might be a duff Cat5e patch cable tho. Shall try again once the proper stuff is installed. Thanks again for your kind assistance. I know how infuriating it can be when you find something easy yourself and explain it to others! Regards, Giggsy.
For your benefit I have just tried it using my unused HH3 and it does work ok so keep trying.
I did disable the time function on the HH3 as it will keep tring to find the time but cannot as you have no wan or adsl connection to it. It then pick up the time from the lan.
Edited by deleted (Thu 01-May-14 03:01:00)
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Shall try that systemx - thanks!
BT Infinity 2 - Predicted speed 54.7Mbps down/15.7Mbps up. Actual speed 42Mbps down/4.5Mbps up... Left BT as they were poor...
Now with Sky Fibre - 37.5Mbps down, 9.5Mbps up |
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