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Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

omar_r6 — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 22:22:01 GMT

Hello just after a bit of help got my fibre install today working great but the home hub wireless and speed not cutting It I’m thinking of swapping it for the nighthawk RAX200 I was using on my virgin media set what I would like to know would my parental setting still work if I remove the home hub

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

TimCurtis — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 08:17:25 GMT

@omar_r6

Depends what fibre you've got as the Nighthawk is just a router, so if you've got fibre to the home with a separate modem (ONT) it'll work otherwise not.

If you've got G.Fast then there's only one3rd party modem/router that seems to support that and that's the Asus DSL-AC88U.

So what fibre do you have?

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

omar_r6 — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 09:14:18 GMT

Full fibre 900 fibre to the house and it’s on the wall with a box with my old virgin media I was able to use my netgear night hawk and still have my virgin media parent settings working, But with Bt I don’t know if it will work I want to use my netgear and still have the Bt parental controls working.

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

imjolly — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 09:30:49 GMT

your netgear should work with ONT settings need to be pppoe with username bthomehub@btbroadband.com and any password

did you get digital voice when you got FTTP installed? if so then it will only work with SH2 connected as hub is a dect base station for phones

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

licquorice — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 09:42:45 GMT

@omar_r6 Router based parental settings will still work, network based parental settings will require the use of BT's DNS servers.

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

omar_r6 — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:39:32 GMT

@imjolly didn’t get a digital phone just the broadband only.

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

omar_r6 — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:40:22 GMT

@TimCurtis Full fibre 900 fibre to the house and it’s on the wall with a box with my old virgin media I was able to use my netgear night hawk and still have my virgin media parent settings working, But with Bt I don’t know if it will work I want to use my netgear and still have the Bt parental controls working.

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

licquorice — Sat, 25 Sep 2021 14:53:43 GMT

See message 5

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

Llionj — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:30:31 GMT

Hello, im in the process of doing the same type of thing, I have a bt home hub 2 on 900mbs but the outcome from the router is only 450 BT engineers have been here and advised trying a new router. I have tried the Nighthawk AX6600 that then brings my speeds to 700-800 so thats that side fixed.

Next problem as you asked about is the digital phone that now wont connect. I have an ethernet form the router to the home hub the light on the disk is blue the phone registers but cant accept or make calls, please explain how I can fix this and what is the SH2 thank you

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

Keith_Beddoe — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:36:51 GMT

@Llionj

The Digital Phones will only connect to the Smart Hub 2 (SH2) using DECT, which has to be the one directly connected to the Optical modem, it cannot be connected via another router.

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

Llionj — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 08:42:15 GMT

@Keith_Beddoe thanks Keith, that is what im wanting to do, so the wan is connected to the netgear then an ehternet to the home hub, i run the setup process for the hub it completes it says connected but the light is orange and when i setup the phone it runs through it all but at the end says cannot send or receive calls thanks

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

Keith_Beddoe — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 09:00:01 GMT

@Llionj

No it will only work the other way around, the WAN has to be connected to the Smart Hub 2, to allow BT Digital Voice to do secure authentication, otherwise you cannot make or receive calls.

Re: Bt hub 2 swap for netgear nighthawk

Llionj — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 17:20:06 GMT

@Keith_Beddoe thank you for the advice