ASUS N66U Question

SoAdCrAzY · 10 Jan 2014 at 20:49

I have BT Broadband and have been using a BT Home Hub 4 wirelessly for a few months now. However, my need for streaming, downloading and gaming is increasing and my connection seems very unreliable and choppy.

I have just purchased an ASUS N66U router in the hope that this may help my wireless connection.

Previously, I was under the impression that this new router would replace my BT Home Hub. The manual said to plug in the Home Hub using the provided Ethernet cable. There is no Ethernet cable in the box!

While I wait for them to send one I just wanted to make sure that this really is necessary or whether I can connect without the Home Hub.

Thank you.

Orcvader · 10 Jan 2014 at 21:06

I'm assuming you have the ADSL broadband and not BT Infinity? As Infinity comes with an extra white modem which plugs to the Home Hub via ethernet. On OcUK there's no ADSL version of the router either, so I guess you either upgrade to Infinity if you can, or refund the router and get an ADSL one.

SoAdCrAzY · 10 Jan 2014 at 21:22

Orcvader said:
I'm assuming you have the ADSL broadband and not BT Infinity? As Infinity comes with an extra white modem which plugs to the Home Hub via ethernet. On OcUK there's no ADSL version of the router either, so I guess you either upgrade to Infinity if you can, or refund the router and get an ADSL one.

Ok, so if I upgrade to BT Infinity, I can just use the white modem that comes with it and not the new BT Home Hub 5?

Orcvader · 10 Jan 2014 at 21:29

Fibre/VDSL (which BT calls Infinity) works differently from ADSL. Usually with a normal ADSL connection you get the Home Hub which is a router that also has a built in ADSL modem. Since these Home Hubs don't have a VDSL modem, they supply an extra white box which acts as the VDSL modem. This is what connects to the phoneline, and the Home Hub, or a router of your choice, connects to this modem via ethernet.

So basically for you what you want to do is this:

PC (((((( N66U --- VDSL modem --- Phone socket

The faster fibre speed will probably actually help with your problem anyway, from the sounds of things it may be caused from a slow connection, and I don't think a better wireless network will help.

SoAdCrAzY · 10 Jan 2014 at 21:32

Orcvader said:
Fibre/VDSL (which BT calls Infinity) works differently from ADSL. Usually with a normal ADSL connection you get the Home Hub which is a router that also has a built in ADSL modem. Since these Home Hubs don't have a VDSL modem, they supply an extra white box which acts as the VDSL modem. This is what connects to the phoneline, and the Home Hub, or a router of your choice, connects to this modem via ethernet.

So basically for you what you want to do is this:

PC (((((( N66U --- VDSL modem --- Phone socket

The faster fibre speed will probably actually help with your problem anyway, from the sounds of things it may be caused from a slow connection, and I don't think a better wireless network will help.

Ok thanks a lot for your help.