BT Homehub 3.0 and ICS

MagicMalkin · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:18

I've just moved house and the place I'm now living at has no phone lines, so I bought a 3 internet dongle. But what I'd like to do is share the connection of this internet dongle, so I setup ICS on it (I have windows 7) and connected my BT Homehub 3 via ethernet to my laptop which has the dongle in. But I can't seem to get the ICS to work properly! I connect to the router's wifi using my phone and when I use the browser I just get the homehub page telling me the DSL is down. How would I properly set this up to work so my home hub is distributing my internet dongle's connection?

waso_dude · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:23

I expect the homehub software it written in a way that it will only work wiht a dsl connection.

And you can't just use it as a router.

MagicMalkin · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:28

I had a feeling that would be the case. Well, looks like I have to dig out the old D-Link.

MagicMalkin · 5 Jul 2011 at 10:39

Just dug out an old Thomson Speedtouch 585v6. Anyone know how I can just use this as a wireless gateway?

cp88 · 5 Jul 2011 at 13:36

I use homehub for ICS,

-Set PC ethernet to 192.168.137.1 (only IP I could get it to work with.. )
-Turn off Homehub DHCP
-Enjoy

Oh also, you need to share your dialed connection (3g) not your LAN.

I use iphones, laptops and wired PC's all working perfect

cp88 · 5 Jul 2011 at 13:40

MagicMalkin said:
I connect to the router's wifi using my phone and when I use the browser I just get the homehub page telling me the DSL is down. How would I properly set this up to work so my home hub is distributing my internet dongle's connection?

Its sending you to that page because its getting the homehub IP, not your PC IP.

If you check the IP which your phone is getting it will be 192.168.1.x which you don't want

Ch3m1c4L · 6 Jul 2011 at 13:34

need to set up your PC's IP as the default gateway on your phone.