Can you have two WiFi Routers?

Your Hub3 will not work when plugged in to an extension socket. The BT Infinity master socket faceplate has two ports. The upper port is only for connecting to the Infinity modem that would have been installed by the engineer when the faceplate was fitted. The lower socket on the faceplate and all your extension sockets do not carry any broadband signals and are strictly for phones, answering machines, faxes, satellite boxes, etc.

Get a pair of Powerline network adapters, such as:

http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/1...

Plug one adapter in by your Hub4 (assuming this is the one connected to your Infinity modem) and connect it to one of the LAN ports on the Hub4.

Connect the second Powerline adapter in your bedroom, and connect it to one of the LAN ports on the Hub3 (or the old Hub2). On the Hub3 (or Hub2), change the address of the router from 192.168.1.254 to 192.168.1.252 so that it does not clash with the address of the Hub4. Also, in the Hub3 (or Hub2), disable the DHCP service. The complete sub-net will be allocated addresses by the DHCP service in the Hub4.

I have Infinity with a modem and Hub4 downstairs, and a Hub2 in my home office, which is upstairs. These are interconnected by Powerline network adapters. My configuration is as described above, and I get Infinity speeds from both routers. I also have a third Powerline adapter to provide an Ethernet connection for my Smart TV.

I hope this helps.

EDIT

If you have a hub phone with your old hub2, you can plug this hub into the phone extension socket in your room. This will give you a cordless phone in your bedroom.

You will only have the Infinity service, and BT will not be aware of the presence of the second router, which can be acting as a switch, wireless access point, and possibly a cordless phone base station. BT will not charge you more.

It will not work as you think.

You cannot connect two ADSL routers to the same phone line, they will interfere with each other and mess the connection up completely.

(If you have BT Infinity, BT probably fitted a whole-house filter to the master socket so no other phone sockets would have a signal anyway, even if a connection was possible.

You can possibly use it as a wired WIFi point and ethernet switch.

To do that, power it up and connect a PC by ethernet.

Go in to the admin settings and set the device's LAN ethernet so the first three groups are the same as the new BT Hub LAN address but the last is different & somewhere around 240 to 250.

eg. if the new hub LAN address is 192.168.1.1 or 192.168.1.245 set the old one to 192.168.1.244

Do not use less than 1 or greater that 254.

Save settings, Reboot it and reconnect the PC.

Now turn off it's DHCP server.

Go to it's WiFi settings and set the SSID, security mode and password *exactly* the same as the WiFi in the new BT Hub - but on a different channel out of 1, 6 & 11.

Save and reboot.

You should now be able to link an ethernet cable from one of the ethernet LAN ports on the new router to one of the LAN ports on the old one.

You can get them up to 50 Metres on ebay for a few pounds..

You can add extra wired devices to the other LAN ports, and any WiFi devices should roam between the two access points (in the new & old routers) without disconnecting, they will just use whichever is stronger in any part of the house.

In effect, it's been reconfigured from a router to an Ethernet switch with a WiFi access point attached.

You can do this with any old router that allows you to change the required settings.

[Electronics designer & programmer for 30+ years].

Bt Infinity Faceplate

you confused be but i made a small diagram of what you need to do. NOTE: You will need a lot of cable (long)

From router one, connect a long Ethernet cable to the regular Ethernet ports, and on the other end, connect to the router 2 on the INTERNET port. if you have a hub or switch, then i think its uplink.

If you are able to flash DD-WRT or Tomato, you might be able to turn one of them into a repeater/bridge, in that instance, yes, you can use that router/repeater within your network.

I believe this should work. Try it and it it doesn't work look up a power line adapter. You plug it in to your wall and then it uses the house's power cables as network cables. I have a power line adapter in my house and I used to lose signal a lot and now it is a great connection.

no you need a range extender you can't use two routers.

something like this

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Netgear-WN3000RP-Universal...