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Bt have upgraded my router to the latest one and have left the hud3 .

Now I live in a 3 story house the top floor is not getting good wifi. is it possible to use a hard wire to the hub3 from the new hub to the hub3 and extend the wifi that way if so how please .

Ps I am no computer expert.
 
Cant help, but how did you get then to upgrade the router. Mine is forever dropping connection and too would like a new hub4
 
Some tips here, I don't have a home hub but did some work on a neighbours to do with port forwarding, and it was more complicated than my own Netgear.
They seem to have an annoying trick of updating firmware un-announced then forgetting any changes you made, even the password goes back to default.
If you get them working make a back up of the settings, it will be much simpler to do it again from that.


http://www.filesaveas.com/bthomehub_tworouters.

Thanks to Darren for adding the following: "You can have two BT home hubs, (or a second router), one as a repeater. All you do is select the repeater option on both, and on your main one, configure the address of the second one to use as a repeater, just that the second one has no ADSL line going into it".

There's more on this process on the Jarviser Repeater Hubs page, although note that it seems that this process isn't possible with the BT Home Hub v2.0
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Mind that link seems to suggest he did it with the older type?
Still worth a look
 
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4wd said:
It can be done but is somewhat complicated.
You might consider one of the range extenders that run through the house wiring, more or less plug in and go.
(e.g. http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-WPA271KIT-Wireless-Powerline-Extender/dp/B00AQV9TX2 )
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this is probably the best way forward.

you could use your old router but you'd need to disable things like DHCP (dont know if BT routers offer DHCP passthrough either) and change the default IP address for starters. if you have no computer experience this may be more hassle than its worth.
 
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