2 Hubs.?

Kennysevenfold · 16 Dec 2008 at 23:41

Hey, probebly a simple enough question but networks is not my speciality lol

tell you what the problem is guys..

i have a BT home hub in my room which i use just now.

and 1 downstairs for the home pc.

when im on mine and i plug the hub in downstairs all the lights bar the "internet" one come on and i cannot get online. and vice-versa if the one downstairs is on first and connected i cant get my hub working

i called up bt and they said i have only one internet connection into my house and cant get "splitted" into 2 different bt hubs, is this true.? or is that native indian from bt just saying this to get me away.?

its pretty annoying when the family want on the pc downstairs and im on mine.

both connected to different phone sockets with adsl filters

many thanks :rolleyes:

tolien · 16 Dec 2008 at 23:43

You can't have the two connected at once.

Kennysevenfold · 16 Dec 2008 at 23:45

Bummer.!

Kennysevenfold · 16 Dec 2008 at 23:46

anything i can do.?

tolien · 16 Dec 2008 at 23:48

Connect the machines to the other Home Hub some other way: with wireless, Homeplug devices or a run of network cable.

PhillyDee · 17 Dec 2008 at 00:11

Run a length of Cat5e cable downstairs, or to the upstairs. You can always add a network switch at either end to give you more ports.

Nick644622 · 17 Dec 2008 at 00:47

What model hubs have you got ? The earlier ones could be "repeated" if I recall, I just looked for it in my 2.0A & couldn't find that feature though.

PhillyDee · 17 Dec 2008 at 00:48

Nick644622 said:
What model hubs have you got ? The earlier ones could be "repeated" if I recall, I just looked at in my 2.0A & couldn't find that feature though.

Would still need a length of Cat5e cable between them though . . .
Im assuming the OP has them both on the same phone line.

tolien · 17 Dec 2008 at 00:49

You could do it over wireless as well, but for anything beyond browsing the throughput wouldn't be fun.

Nick644622 · 17 Dec 2008 at 01:05

Yes it is wireless, it looks for other Hubs & it found a neighbours as I recall. I will dig out a pair of older Hubs & try it out of curiosity over the weekend.

pennywise · 17 Dec 2008 at 09:34

The Homehub 1.0/1.5 have WDS so you can use one as a wireless repeater. Pretty easy to set up as well...

http://www.jarviser.co.uk/jarviser/repeaterhubs.html

Not sure on the throughput, I doubt if it would be too bad as long as you sort the wireless channels properly.