BT infinity and old router

bazzabear · 30 Mar 2014 at 15:31

So I moved to Infinity fibre broadband a while back, and got a Homehub 3 with it.

I had, not all that long before, bought a new router - an N300.

It's only just really occurred to me - but would that router be compatible with Infinity, and would it be better?

Bluecube · 30 Mar 2014 at 15:38

So long as the router has a WAN port to plug in the cable from the Infinity modem then you're good to go. I'm not sure if it'll be better than the Homehub but the BT Homehubs never seem to get good write ups so suck it and see

bazzabear · 30 Mar 2014 at 15:49

This is the model:
http://www.netgear.co.uk/home/products/networking/dsl-modems-routers/dgn2200.aspx#tab-techspecs

So seeing that one of the ethernet ports is labelled as WAN, I assume that's the requirement you're talking about?

So I just plug that in from the BT modem, and don't have anything plugged into the ADSL port?

Bluecube · 30 Mar 2014 at 15:51

"Four (4) 10/100 Fast Ethernet ports with auto-sensing technology; one (1) Fast Ethernet port can be used as WAN port to connect to cable/fiber modem"

From the specs sheet. So yes, you ignore the ADSL port and plug a cable from the BT modem to the specific WAN port.

bazzabear · 30 Mar 2014 at 16:23

Cool, thanks. I'll give it a go when I have some spare time.