Replace BT Smart Hub 2 with netgear R7000 router

[Kimberlin]

@Jake12  I use PrivadoVPN, it’s absolutely fine, £30 for a two year subscription.

I personally wouldn’t bother using a VPN installed on a router, but I guess it’s a thing for some. It can significantly slow down internet speed.

I travel globally fairly regularly, so I use a VPN all the time.

[Jake12]

The Netgear has a longer WiFi range via antennas so I'll disable WiFi on the smart hub but keep wifi on the Netgear. 

[Jake12]

What about using Windscribe VPN? It has a censorship bypass button which is supposed to mix VPN with internet traffic which is supposed to get around VPN blocks

[Jake12]

These are the settings I changed the Netgear (2nd photo) and the 1st photo shows the BT Smart Hub settings with DCHP disabled. This setup was with a ethernet cable coming out of LAN4 (BT Hub main) to the Internet Port of the Netgear. Although the Internet icon on the Netgear R7000 did light up I still could not access the internet through the Netgear whether DCHP was disabled on the BT Hub or not. What am I doing wrong?

[licquorice]

3 things

1. Make sure the BT hub isn't configured in full fibre mode as that changes port 4 from a LAN to a WAN port. Alternatively, use a different LAN port on the BT hub.

2. On the Netgear set thw WAN connection type to Static IP and set the WAN IP address as 192.168.1.10 (you've disabled DHCP on the BT hub but set the Netgear to obtain its WAN IP address via DHCP from the BT hub)

3. Set DNS 1 to 8.8.8.8 and DNS 2 to 4.4.4.4 or whatever your preferred DNS server addresses are.

[Jake12]

1. I use Openreach Full Fibre so the 'Full Fibre' has to be on (see screenshotted errors above). I did not get internet on the BT Hub when Full Fibre was disabled (no connection through Netgear) so I don't think I can disable Full Fibre on the BT Hub.

2. On the Netgear I did set the WAN Connection to Static IP and WAN IP to 192.168.1.10, then I set DNS to 8.8.8.8. 

3. With DCHP enabled on both BT and Netgear I could not get internet through the Netgear. I then disabled DCHP on BT (enabled on Netgear) no internet

4. So what do I do now? Still no internet through Netgear. 

[licquorice]

If you have full fibre, the ONT obviously needs to be connected to the BT hub port4 in full fibre mode. Therefore you have to connect the Netgear to a port other than port 4.

[Jake12]

The ONT (the ethernet cable going from Port1 of the BT Modem)  has always gone to the BT Smart Hub Port4 (Port4 is the WAN port, the BT Smart Hub has LAN ports 1,2 and 3). Another ethernet cable has gone from  BT Hub LAN port 2 or 3 to the Netgear Router's Internet (yellow colour) port. I have never connected the Netgear to the BT Hub's Port4 (WAN). So what do I do as I have done as you said still no internet through Netgear

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[licquorice]

In message 34 you stated 

This setup was with a ethernet cable coming out of LAN4 (BT Hub main) to the Internet Port of the Netgear. !!!!!

You need to connect the BT hub port 1,2, or 3 to the WAN port of the Netgear.

[Jake12]

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"You need to connect the BT hub port 1,2, or 3 to the WAN port of the Netgear."      I did that and I still had no internet connection on my Netgear. The setup I tested last night was: Port1 (BT modern) to WAN port (Smarthub). Then LAN2 (Smarthub) to Internet port (Yellow) of Netgear (see pic). 

Also the Netgear manual says that when setting up manually 'Use Static IP Address: Enter the IP address, IP subnet mask, and the gateway IP
address that your ISP assigned. The gateway is the ISP router to which your router
connects. ' So the gateway should the the IP address of the BT Hub so 192.168.1.254?