Netgear Help N Home Hub?

Question

I bought a netgear wireless started router- i have a bt home hub downstairs and wanted the netgear router upstairs so i wud get a better connnection on xbox live, i have the extension cable which runs upstairs, its confusing yep, but if i have the home hub upstairs n downstairs it works bt the netgear router only works upstairs it cnt connect to the line from upstairs for some strange reason, so does anybody know how i cud get he hub and router working plz 10 points to the best annswer xxx

Answer 1

Read this to setup the netgear router

Answer 2

While your description is confusing, your English composition skills, improper Grammar, and miserable spelling makes your writing extremely difficult to understand. Please remember that when you ask others for help, the least you can do is take the effort to provide details accuratly and to use the conventional English Grammar and Composition skills that are required of those writing at the fourth grade level.

Having said this, I decipher from your wording the following:

1. You have a Netgear wireless router (there is no such thing as a started router so I do not know what you intended to say using these words) and you wish to put this upstairs because it provides superior connectivity to your LAN devices over any other location in your home.
2. I do not know what a "bt home hub" is. I suspect you really mean that you have an ISP that provided a combination modem, router, and network switch (probably 4 port LAN) integrated into one box. You wish to have this device downstairs. I presume this device provides LAN IP addresses via dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP).
3. You wish to know how to get the two to work together so you can provide wireless connectivity from the Netgear device.

Assuming my comments above describe what you should have stated initially, here is my answer:

1. You can do what you wish to do.
2. You need to run a straight CAT5 cable from the modem / router / switch device's LAN port and plug it into the WAN port of the Netgear router.
3. You need to configure the Netgear by connecting a wired CAT5 cable between your pc and the Netgear LAN port. NEVER CONFIGURE ANY WIRELESS ROUTER OR WIRELESS ACCESS POINT VIA WIRELESS CONNECTION as you are likely to have trouble.
4. Configure the Netgear WAN port for a dynamic IP (not static IP, not PPPoE) as the modem / router / switch will provide a dynamic IP feed.
5. For the Netgear LAN port configuration, you can turn off DHCP and use the LAN IP addresses assigned by the modem / router / switch device in most cases. If this just will not work, you need to make sure that you change the Netgear LAN subnet to be different from the subnet provided by the modem / switch / router (e.g. if the modem / switch / router uses the 192.168.1.0/24 subnet you should use something else; I suggest 192.168.2.0/24. Note that 192.168.1.0/24 subnet means the LAN IP addresses are in the format 192.168.1.x and subnet mask is 255.255.255.0) You must not have the WAN IP of the Netgear be on the same subnet as the LAN IP as this will create confusion and failure of connectivity. Please note that any change in the Netgear router LAN subnet will require you to reboot the pc connected to the Netgear router LAN and re-enter the configuration using the new subnet default gateway.
6. Once you are successful with the router config you should be able to access the web with the wired connection.
7. After success with the wired connection, now address the wireless side. Access the Netgear using a wired connection and activate wireless. BE SURE TO IMPLEMENT ALL SECURITY steps or you will be subject to hackers and freeloaders. Be sure to invoke encryption (WPA2 if the router supports it), use a strong preshare key, and invoke MAC address validation as the router describes. Note and record carefully what you configured as you will need this when you configure your wireless LAN pcs and other devices.

Answer 3

You can't

Essentially what you are trying to do is to have to routers create a broadband connection on a single line which is not possible.

You can link the netgear to the BT hub, OR you can use the netgear only - but you can't use both at the same time.

It is like trying to get two people to sit behind the steering wheel in a car and drive - not possible.

Answer 4

My question is: WHY would you use a hub to do anything? For that matter why use a router for Xbox live? Get a switch and toss the router and hub. Your question begs another question: What is it that you're trying to do? You say bt home hub as if that explains what you have downstairs....duh ...no. If you have a wireless started?? router (I have no clue what a started router is) then why are you running an extension cable? Is your DSL or cable modem wireless capable? Start again and state clearly what equipment you have, whether you have DSL or cable, then state what you want the equipment to do. Then clearly state what you want the outcome to be. Technical questions require clear accurate questions ____cuz we be no understand u, duh.

Answer 5

You can't use 2 routers they give conflicting information, and the home hub is a router. you should have bought a wirelss access point or range extender.