Household network setup advice required

Chimpofdoom

One other thing to consider when using home plugs, upstairs and downstairs may be isolated from each other eg: your power points upstairs may be on it's own ring with it's own fuse/trip switch than the ones downstairs.

So you may want to check your fusebox to see if this is the case.

Mondez

@kwikbreaks Yeah, they work fine as just wireless access points, the main router will hand out IP addresses to anyone that connects to it as long as the two routers are wired together through the normal switch bit, not the "WAN" port. For some routers you can merge them into the same wireless network though I've never tried it myself. I just set it to have a different SSID (network name) and be on a channel that doesn't overlap with the other router.

Bargain.hunter_4

Thanks all, powerline adapters working fine. Just have to wrk out how to dee-activate dhcp on the belkin.

Would look to get a switch, but why do that when my adsl router is here and only 3 months old and should be able to do this.

diable

Bargain.hunter wrote: »

Would look to get a switch, but why do that when my adsl router is here and only 3 months old and should be able to do this.

Its a new toy simple.........

DVardysShadow

kwikbreaks wrote: »

How were you connecting it? Your Belkin is an ADSL wireless router and you can't connect it to the phone line while your BT hub is connected. There is just the vaguest chance that if you plug your ethernet lead from the BT hub (via your powerline adaptors) into one of the sockets in your Belkin it may act as a dumb hub or switch so long as you turn off DHCP to avoid confilcts and you could then use the other 3 for devices but I wouldn't put any bets on it. Far better to buy a proper hub or switch to do the job.

More than the vaguest chance, there is every chance it will work.The LAN side of the modem part needs to be set to an IP address and netmask that does not play in the network, DHCP turned off and it should all work fine. After all, a domestic ADSL router is actually a simple ADSL router with a hub on the back.

Bargain.hunter_4

DVardysShadow wrote: »

More than the vaguest chance, there is every chance it will work.The LAN side of the modem part needs to be set to an IP address and netmask that does not play in the network, DHCP turned off and it should all work fine. After all, a domestic ADSL router is actually a simple ADSL router with a hub on the back.

What IP address should I use? should i just pick a random number within my LAN range so long as its not .1?

DVardysShadow

Bargain.hunter wrote: »

What IP address should I use? should i just pick a random number within my LAN range so long as its not .1?

NO! Outside your range

If your range is 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.0 then 10.0.0.1 / 255.255.255.254 would be good. If you ever intend to use the router as a router again, write the IP address and netmask on a sticker and put it on the bottom.

saveallmymoney

In the interest of moneysaving, I should point out that the router will use far more electricity than a cheap hub, if you are thinking of keeping this setup long term.

Mondez

DVardysShadow wrote: »

NO! Outside your range

If your range is 192.168.0.1 / 255.255.255.0 then 10.0.0.1 / 255.255.255.254 would be good. If you ever intend to use the router as a router again, write the IP address and netmask on a sticker and put it on the bottom.

If they set it out of their range they won't be able to log into it to change any settings without manually changing the IP address to one in the same range to reconfigure it. I'd also set the netmask to something a little more permissive such as 255.255.255.0. Then they could connect to it by settings their computer to any of 10.0.0.2 - 10.0.0.254.