hi, hope you all had a good christmas though I'm now sick of this snow

I got a problem with home hubs that I've still not sorted and I know you'll be able to sort

As some of you'll remember I've strung a network cable between two houses to get internet in this one but so far have been unable to get the wireless to work on my second bt home hub, so the network cable is currently plugged into the into laptop directly, not using the hub.

This is a bit of a pest as the whole idea was to get the second hub to broadcast wireless in my house.

I've tried connecting each hubs Ethernet connections togeather thinking that the second hub would by magic start broadcasting wireless in the second house but the broadband light doesn't light up on the hub.

I tried running the wizard on the other houses computer with the result that we had no internet at all and I had to reinstall the software.

Bit out my depth here...why are computers so difficult these days????

any ideas?? cheers

[Edited on 26/12/09 by Mr Whippy]

Does the hub hardware actually let you do that?

I know cheap wireless hubs dont support rebroadcasting etc..


My rather expensive linkysys does..

Coolwhip - You need one of the wireless boxes to run as an access point. The HH won't ramp on as it wants its own phone line - it won't accept a feed from another device and broadcast that - That's what repeaters or access points can do.

I'm not sure the HH can operate as a repeater (repeating your wireless network beyond into another area not covered by the first) and I'm not too sure it can be an access point either...

I would get new hardware - either a repeater or an access point.

An EBay search for access point will get you this!

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=p3984.m38.l1311&_nkw=wireless+access+point&_sacat=See-All-Categories

Sounds like you need a wireless access point - Im not sure if you can do what you are trying do on a wireless gateway.

Have you tried switch dhcp off on the second homehub?

P.s You will not get a BB light on the second one due to the fact it looks to the ADSL port on the hub to switch this on.

don't know tbh, I thought thats what the ethernet was for? I did see on the web relay like things for increasing wireless range through buildings but got the impression that the bt hub could be used that way?

Have a look on here too....

http://www.filesaveas.com/bthomehub_tworouters.html

Have a look on here too....

http://www.filesaveas.com/bthomehub_tworouters.html

Need to set the2nd one to an access point and make sure they have different ip addresses. Telling the 2nd one the ip address of the first.

oh boy all this quicky get sooooo complicated

had a look at those links ta but understood about 40% of it

These repeaters, if I connect the internet cable thats currently plugged into the side of my laptop into the repeater, would is start broadcasting wireless in my house? there's no passwords or anything like that needed currently to connect to next doors HH, I just plug the cable in and it works as its just a 30m long ethernet cable really. I just need wireless instead.

ta

Just follow the instructions in the link provided

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

Cheers guys, bought a wireless access point and although the instructions were so absolutely awful I threw them away and just fiddled about got it working very well

Thank god some of you on here are good with computers

Quality - Nice work Coolwhip!