I have a 2wire hg1800 Router and am on bttotalbradband - I am awaiting my BT Home Hub - is it possible to connect the hg1800 to the BT Home Hub to maximise on hardwired ethernet connections as I am told that the BT Home Hub only has 2 ethernets and 1 usb (personnal i don't use the usb)
Any Ideas
2006-10-28 16:49:10 · 7 answers · asked by Soft Regmail 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Computer Networking
In short, no.
A router is a modem, a firewall and a switch (also called a hub), in one box, basically. Because of the modem aspect of it, it translates signals - the signals that go between your router and ISP are of a different form to those between router and PC. So if you plug a router into a router, it's getting signals that it can't understand from the router, where it's expecting signals it can understand from an ISP.
What you can do is plug a normal switch into the router. This way you can add as many ethernet ports as you like. Because the switch doesn't have a modem built into it, it talks in ethernet to everything it's plugged into.
Switches aren't expensive, and you can get them from any PC shop.
2006-10-29 02:08:37 · answer #1 · answered by lordandmaker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is possible but very complex since neither the 2wire 1800HG nor the BT Home Hub have a WAN port.
2006-10-28 17:06:36 · answer #2 · answered by juliepelletier 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you're able to, yet why? The upstairs pc has purely a under pressure link ability. in case you connect router # 2 to router # 2 via a cat5 cable and the upstairs pc to router # 2 via cat 5 cable, why now no longer fairly connect upstairs pc via cat5 cable to a LAN port of the 1st router?
2016-11-26 01:37:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure, but I'll appreciate any replies as I need to know something similar too, just got myself cable broadband and would like to get the internet routed for access around the house
2006-10-28 16:59:31 · answer #4 · answered by pussycatboi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The first answer got it right , according to the diagram , you've got to build a tunnel.lol
dint know if its for you to escape, or for the badgers, could be hedge hogs lol
2006-10-28 19:24:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes
2006-10-28 17:02:55 · answer #6 · answered by cobo6 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Does this answer your question?
2006-10-28 16:54:12 · answer #7 · answered by ragingmk 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋