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brian3990
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on ‎15-07-2025 10h56

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standard bt line in with BT smart hub wanting to use a net gear night hawk router

having had many issues for many months and had many bt engineers my speed is eratic and all over the place. had new smart hub and all has been tested by bt who cannot find faults. yet internet is varied to poor over the house  some things cannot receive ipv4 etc. i want to buy and use a netgear router like the night hawk  BE3600 wifi 7 router.

how can i use this with my standard bt smart hub please

standard phone socket to bt smarthub adsl plug

 

in anticipation

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licquorice
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on ‎16-07-2025 15h14

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Re: standard bt line in with BT smart hub wanting to use a net gear night hawk router

The BE3600 is a TP Link device, not Netgear.

Why do you think it will make any difference to your erratic speed, particularly if using it in conjunction with a smart hub? 

Assuming you do wish to use it, you have 2 options.

1. Use it purely as a WiFi access point leaving the hub to do the routing, in which case give it an IP address outside of the DHCP range of the hub and Gateway 192.168.1.254 and connect the 2 devices LAN port to LAN port. Turn off the WiFi on the hub.

2. Use it as a second router, in which case set the WAN port to DHCP, make sure the TP Link is in a different subnet to the hub (e.g 192.168.2.xxx) and connect the Hub LAN port to the TP Link WAN port. Turn off the WiFi on the Hub.

You have posted on the ADSL board. Do you really have only ADSL or do you have VDSL, what speed is your broadband?

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