Home Hub Question

Vicky123

I'm looking to move my old desk top out of the room where it's connected to the home hub, the router is connected to the modem, can I just disconnect it and we still have the same signal all over the house?
TIA

JJ_Egan

Disconnect the router and you will have no WiFi .

Rubidium

Vicky123 wrote: »

I'm looking to move my old desk top out of the room where it's connected to the home hub, the router is connected to the modem, can I just disconnect it and we still have the same signal all over the house?
TIA

Yes..................

bsod

The question is unclear.

disconnect what?

3 pieces of equipment are mentioned, what are they

how are they connected now, and how do you wish to connect to them in future

Vicky123

bsod wrote: »

The question is unclear.

disconnect what?

3 pieces of equipment are mentioned, what are they

how are they connected now, and how do you wish to connect to them in future

The router connects to the phone socket and another wire connects to the back of the modem on a computer I want to move to another room, so if I pull the wire out of the back of the modem will it affect the signal on all devices around the house, in other words is my signal dependent on being connected to this modem. I have BT infinity2 if that makes a difference. I also stream movies and have SKY.
TIA

bsod

modem? do you mean the wireless homehub connects to the pc's network card with an ethernet cable, and to the phone socket with a phone lead?

things that work wirelessly when the pc is turned off will also work if the pc is not connected to anything, unplug the pc ethernet cable to see. The homehub provides the wireless ability to devices around the home, not the pc.

if it doesn't have a wireless card, a wireless usb device would let you to use the pc in different rooms, check for xp compatibility if it's old.

Vicky123

Yes, it's old, mostly we all use laptops/tablets, if I wanted to have another desktop then I assume it would need to go in the room I'm trying to clear out , just wasn't sure if it affected everything else including SKY.
Thanks

bod1467

For simplicity, delete the word modem from your vocabulary with respect to any PC device ... the only thing with a modem is the Home Hub (HH), or maybe a separate device if you have fibre and you have the HH4. Any other device will be connected either via wifi (provided by the HH) or via ethernet via direct cable connection to the HH.

Moving the PC will not affect anything else.

debitcardmayhem

bod1467 wrote: »

For simplicity, delete the word modem from your vocabulary with respect to any PC device ... the only thing with a modem is the Home Hub (HH), or maybe a separate device if you have fibre and you have the HH4. Any other device will be connected either via wifi (provided by the HH) or via ethernet via direct cable connection to the HH.

Moving the PC will not affect anything else.

Huh how does my PC work as a fax then using its modem, attached to the analogue socket on my phone?

bod1467

There just had to be one, didn't there. How does your response help the OP in any way? How many people (these days) still have that type of setup?

My response was geared so that the OP would understand that moving the PC will not have any effect on any other device.

Fightsback

debitcardmayhem wrote: »

Huh how does my PC work as a fax then using its modem, attached to the analogue socket on my phone?

DCM, do people still use those ?

Thought they went out with carrier pigeons