Can I use two BT Hubs on the same phone line ?
 

The BT home Hub is upstairs in the study with the Apple desktop hard wired to it. I use the Macbook downstairs with the wireless connection. The laptop keeps loosing signal strength and I have been given another BT Home Hub. Can I plug this in downstairs on the phone line as well as keeping the upstairs one connected ? Both would be on the same broadband telephone line. I was thinking that if the new hub was much closer to the laptop then signal strength might be better.

Cheers

JBL

Don't think you can use two on one line.

No, you cannot use 2 routers connecting on the same DSL line.

I don't have a Homehub and unsure if it can be a wireless repeater. A lot of routers do allow this though. You would not connect it to the phone line but enable the repeater mode. On mine it is known as WDS, wireless distribution system or something. I sit it where it has a good signal with the main router and it just extends the wireless coverage a bit further.

If the router supplied by BT can do WDS, then yes.

Google WDS/Bridging/Repeating on your model and go from there.

you can link two BT-Hubs together wirelessly i.e. one is connected to the line, the other as a wireless bridge, but only version 1.0 or 1.5 can link, not the version 2 (black curved design). However the version 2.0 hub has a much better range over N-standard networks i.e. if your laptop has a 802.11n wireless adapter as opposed to a 802.11g, then the wirelss range is better.

Oh dear ! Wish I was thirty years younger then I might understand some of this !!

I can see why I can't use two hubs on the same line..thanks for that.

Both hubs are the old white ones, v1.5

So how do I find out if the macbook has the 802.11n or 802.11g adapter ? Found the answer to this, it's a 1.1 with the 802.11g so a newer hub is pointless. Will have a read about this 'bridging'

If it has the g then I can ask BT for an updated hub, if not then no point ! ??

Help please.

Cheers

JBL