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Setting up Home Network
Good Morning,
I’m looking for some advice on setting up my home network.
Currently we have a BT Fibre and home hub but i’m looking to upgrade. Currently the BT line Is situated in the lof...
Here's a link to some Powerline Adapters - you'll either need two pairs on one pair + a switch to allow for two connections in the other room:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=powerline+adapters
Thanks for the reply I appreciate it. Currently the BT home hub is in the living room, do you think I should move this up into the loft? The reason I was looking to go away from the BT home hub is the X Box will not connect to it, so if the XR500 is connected to the BT hub will this then work?
I was hoping to have 2 WiFi routers one in each room downstairs, it doesn’t look like this possible having the power line adapters?
Cheers Lee
- I'm not sure why your Xbox won't get a connection to the BT Hub, likely some configuration issue there so putting the XR500 between them should resolve it. You could put the home hub in the loft if your setup allows it. Then have a powerline adapter connected to it that feeds into another room where you could have the XR500 available for wired and wireless connections. I don't see an issue with using two routers with powerline adapters but it may be unnecessary expense if the XR500 WiFi can reach both rooms.
Okay thanks again, so would I be setting up the BT hub as a modem? Does the XR500 then become a access point, if so do you get the full functionality? I really wanted to ditch the BT hub as I have read so many bad reviews on them.
Is it necessary to use these Powerline adapters? As i’m not to keen on the idea of using these
sorry for the questions, i’m new to this and want to understand as much as I can.
Regards Lee.
No worries. That's right, just put the Hub into modem mode (if it has that option), otherwise leave it as it is and just use it to transport the signal to your XR500, which will be all the 'brains' on your network.
You definitely should NOT but the XR500 into Access Point mode. This would disable all the features, other than the wireless, so would be a big mistake. The XR500 instead becomes the only router you connect all your devices to.
The only reason we recommend the Powerline adapters is that you said you wanted to game wired. Other than running an Ethernet cable inside the walls of your house (or along the floor, which is messy), I can't think of any other way of getting a wired connection into a separate room than your router.
