2 hubs o.o

[jamesnightingale]

So I'm with a English broadband provider called bt the biggest in U.K. So they sent the hub to the wrong address so they accidentally sent me two because the owner of the house it got sent to was nice and re sent it to us. Any way enough of the story I'm in a rather big house with two hubs I'm new to this so I won't know the proper words for a lot of things. I had two white boxes Or adsl I think they are called. one plugs straight into the hub  and one is for the phone I would like to use both the boxes for the hubs would this work if I use both the boxes but for the phone line I could use an adapter to make it connect to the hub. I hope you understand what I'm trying to say I want 2 hubs running at once but on one line.

[brwainer]

If you try to connect both to the same telephone line, they will conflict because all forms of DSL are designed to only have one modem at a time connected to each phone line. It doesn't matter how you might split it, because there is just a single phone line coming to your house they would interfere with each other.

 

What you can do however is try to operate one of them as an AP, so that you are just using it as a wired switch and wireless access point, and then connecting to the AP will put you on the same network as if you connected to the main one. The general steps to convert any type of router, even one with a builtin modem, are:

1. Log into the web control panel of the router you want to turn into an AP
2. Turn off the DHCP server for the LAN
3. Change the LAN IP so that it won't conflict with the other router, and so that in the future you can get back to this control panel if necessary. If the IP is 192.168.1.1, then change it to 192.168.1.2 - or if you have multiple APs, then you would give each one its own IP.
4. connect the newly converted AP to the other router, using an ethernet cable. On both devices the ethernet cable should be connected to a LAN port.

[jamesnightingale]

6 minutes ago, brwainer said:

If you try to connect both to the same telephone line, they will conflict because all forms of DSL are designed to only have one modem at a time connected to each phone line. It doesn't matter how you might split it, because there is just a single phone line coming to your house they would interfere with each other.

 

What you can do however is try to operate one of them as an AP, so that you are just using it as a wired switch and wireless access point, and then connecting to the AP will put you on the same network as if you connected to the main one. The general steps to convert any type of router, even one with a builtin modem, are:

1. Log into the web control panel of the router you want to turn into an AP
2. Turn off the DHCP server for the LAN
3. Change the LAN IP so that it won't conflict with the other router, and so that in the future you can get back to this control panel if necessary. If the IP is 192.168.1.1, then change it to 192.168.1.2 - or if you have multiple APs, then you would give each one its own IP.
4. connect the newly converted AP to the other router, using an ethernet cable. On both devices the ethernet cable should be connected to a LAN port.

I see thank you so much I will do this now.

[jamesnightingale]

15 hours ago, brwainer said:

If you try to connect both to the same telephone line, they will conflict because all forms of DSL are designed to only have one modem at a time connected to each phone line. It doesn't matter how you might split it, because there is just a single phone line coming to your house they would interfere with each other.

 

What you can do however is try to operate one of them as an AP, so that you are just using it as a wired switch and wireless access point, and then connecting to the AP will put you on the same network as if you connected to the main one. The general steps to convert any type of router, even one with a builtin modem, are:

1. Log into the web control panel of the router you want to turn into an AP
2. Turn off the DHCP server for the LAN
3. Change the LAN IP so that it won't conflict with the other router, and so that in the future you can get back to this control panel if necessary. If the IP is 192.168.1.1, then change it to 192.168.1.2 - or if you have multiple APs, then you would give each one its own IP.
4. connect the newly converted AP to the other router, using an ethernet cable. On both devices the ethernet cable should be connected to a LAN port.

Yes! It worked thanks so much I can use it as a switch also?

[brwainer]

36 minutes ago, jamesnightingale said:

Yes! It worked thanks so much I can use it as a switch also?

If you have it working as an AP, then the LAN ports will operate as a switch (assuming there is more than one LAN port)