BT Wholehome not working with gigacube

[mansourdom]

I just bought a new gigacube mobile router with 4g from vodafone.

It's set up and working fine. I also have a new BT wholehome kit to run the signal through the house. It says to connect the wholehome direct to the router ethernet port. when i do this into gigacube box, the line drops every time from the gigacube box and i have no signal, nor does the disc receive anything. Disc lights flash purple/ blue and then stay red.

Unplugging it and the signal immediately comes back. Any ideas on how to get this to work?

[imjolly]

don't think it is intended to work with mobile 4g

[mansourdom]

thanks, if that's right is there no way to use some other device to get the signal across the house? I've terrible 4g, so the only place is in a far corner of the house.

[Keith_Beddoe]

BT hotspot 600, simple and cheap. It uses the mains wiring.

[mansourdom]

do you think that will work with the gigacube?

[Keith_Beddoe · Accepted solution]

I cannot see any reason why not, as all it does is to extend an Ethernet connection. It does request an  IP address using DHCP, but you can configure it to a static IP address.

[mansourdom]

thanks, this works fine - and also i can use the wholehome too through the hotspots

[Keith_Beddoe]

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@mansourdom wrote:

thanks, this works fine - and also i can use the wholehome too through the hotspots

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Excellent !