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BT Full Fibre and Home hub 2

152bobby — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:58:01 GMT

I've ordered BT Full Fibre and just waiting on Openreach to come and do their stuff, including the cable to the house.

The have sent a cable and nothing else because I already have the Homehub 2, which is fine.

There is a small leaflet with the cable and it's states that Port 4 has to be available....I currently use all ports !!

Will the Openreach person have a solution for this, or will it be up to be to sort out ?

Thanks

Re: BT Full Fibre and Home hub 2

licquorice — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:18:13 GMT

It's up to you. Port4 needs to be changed to a WAN port by selecting full fibre mode.

Unmanaged Ethernet switches are very cheap, just connect one of the remaining 3 ports to the switch to give you extra Ethernet ports.

Re: BT Full Fibre and Home hub 2

Manatarms84 — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 17:25:41 GMT

To use full fiber you will need to connect the home hub 2 to the ONT using the WAN port

If you need more Ethernet ports than you will need to use an Ethernet bus / splitter but that's on you not open reach to sort

Re: BT Full Fibre and Home hub 2

iniltous — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 18:09:52 GMT

As stated, the 4th port is required to plug into the ONT ( and the settings on the SH2 changed to full fibre mode ) , if there is something in the 4th port and 1-3 are already in use , you will need a small ‘device ’ to plug into Ethernet port 3 , and then plug the devices currently in 3 and 4 into that device

Re: BT Full Fibre and Home hub 2

WSH — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:26:22 GMT

Just to clarify, the small device is an “unmanaged ethernet switch”. You don’t need anything fancy, like managed switches or POE. You can get one on Amazon for under £25.

They come in 5 or 8 ports, personally I think the 8 port are better value for money.

You connect one port on the SH2 to one on the switch and the other 7 ports are then available for use. I would avoid simple splitters. They split (i.e. weaken) the signal. A switch regenerates the signal giving full strength to all 7 ports.

Edit: And while I think about it, make sure it's gigabit rated.