Hi again,
The BT Hub 2 and wifi disks have arrived and I I thought I'd try to touch base with you before connecting them.
My broadband comes into the house at socket from which a connection goes directly into the existing modem. From the modem there's an ethernet out that goes to an upstairs room where it connects to the ethernet port of an Apple Base Station. From there, via wifi, I run an Apple TV in a downstairs room, and Apple Extreme in a cupboard in a different downstairs room, and a printer. That's my current set up.
I think the first thing I have to do is:
- Unhook the current modem from the broadband wall socket
- Feed the broadband signal from the wall socket into the appropriate port on the new Hub2 with the supplied cable.
- This bit I'm not so clear about: put the Hub 2 address and password (which is on the underside of the new device) into my MacBook OSX Network Preferences?
- The Hub 2 instruction say the next thing to do is activate the wifi disks which as far as I can tell are simply a kind of wifi signal booster so perhaps this could be left until last so as to get everything else working with Hub 2 first?
- If we skip step 4 then perhaps the next thing would be to connect the existing ethernet cable to the out port on the Hub 2, the other end will still be connected to the ethernet in port on the Apple Base Station upstairs?
- Then possibly back to OSX Network Preferences to configure it to work with the Apple TV, Apple Extreme, printer? If so and it all works that would just leave step 4, which was skipped early - connecting the wifi booster disk.
Superfast fibre broadband is due to come online late on Friday but the notification email said to connect the Hub 2 to the regular broadband as soon as it arrives.
Thank you in advance
Regards,
K
