BT Infinity with a Home Hub

blisteringblue

Title wrong: BT INFINITY WITHOUT A HOMEHUB

I work from home and currently have Plusnet Fibre with the white openreach modem and a Draytek 2630n router. Obviously this is a good bit of kit and supplied by my work.

I want to swap over to BT Infinity to get BT TV and BT Sport, however I just don't want the Home Hub.

Now I know BT no longer supply Infinity with a separate modem, the new Home Hub is an all in one device for fibre. MIL just got one.

Can you order Infinity without a Home Hub? Or do I simply order it and tell the engineer not to bother installing it when he turns up?

JJ_Egan

What modem are you going to use .

Pincher

With the Virgin SuperHub, which also has the Modem merged with Router, you can set it to behave like a modem only, and only one Ethernet port works. Obviously you then plug in a Router with DHCP enabled.


I expect the integrated BT HomeHub does something similar.


I have the separate modem for Infinity, which is my preferred configuration. I plug a Netgear Wi-Fi Router into the BT HomeHub, any Ethernet socket. The HomeHub operates on 192.168.1.* subnet, whereas the NetGear operates on 192.168.2.* subnet. The only drawback is the printer needs to be on the same subnet as the computer, or I can't print to it.


If the Draytek can be configured as an access point, then it can be slaved to the DHCP on the HomeHub, so everything operates on 192.168.1.* .

Roland_Sausage

Your existing modem and router will work fine. Just take the Home
Hub and put it in a drawer.

JJ_Egan

Thats the PN modem that will work fine then .
I thought it did but could not remember what modem i used when my home hub broke .

Pincher

It does raise the question of what happens to the FON function.


If I plug a NetGear router directly into the Infinity modem, it should still work, but there is nothing that handles FON traffic.


Since I am not sharing my home broadband, why would BT allow me to use the millions of FON access points out there?

blisteringblue

Thanks, I didn't take the plusnet router, I have the white modem Openreach install for fibre when I first moved from ADSL.

I've found elsewhere that if I do swap to BT I can leave the kit exactly where it is and all I do is change the PPPoE username from the plusnet one I currently use to "bthomehub@btbroadband.com" and it should just work exactly as it does now.

Will just wait for the next £200 Quidco cashback offer then and get swapped over.