Airport Extreme/Timecapsule with BT Infinity

Thanks from me,

I just had Infinity installed and followed the info above and am now just connected via router & TC and am not using BTHH.

The engineer who came to install infinity pretty much knew how to do it also 🙂

Thanks Andy,

Your little fix, also worked for me - openreach to Extreme to iMac - that's ethernet all the way, set up as you say in Air. Ut., but I had to make a slight alteration to Network Con.Pnl. in System Pref. I had to reconfigure IPv4 to "...with manual address" to set up the router which goes to 192.168.1.1 (from a setting of Manual). I must admit that this hadn't occurred to me, but we get lazy because things so rarely go wrong?

Thanks

Just about to get BT Infinity and reassured by all this! Thank you.

Hi all

thanks for all these helpful posts. Andy, I have followed your settings. Openreach modem connected directly with cat5e to the WAN of the time capsule. TC boots up and confirms all the settings have been changed and gives me a green light.

Tried connecting old PBG4(10.4) / Macbook(10.6) (my MBpro is having a heart transplant !) with ethernet cable and with airport (even tried iphone on airport). In network prefs I get a connection that says it is connected to the internet but when I open safari nothing loads! I'm confused!

Could you go through the other settings tabs (PPoE / DHCP and NAT and tell me how those are set? Also since I'm not getting through to the computers, what settings have you got in the network pane on system prefs? I', sure its going to be something small and silly but your help or TPaul's might just show up what it is.

thanks

Hi There medfet,

I sorry I cannot help as my iMac and Air Ex. is off sick at the moment, so I'm making do with one of my other computers and as a concequence my network is limited to B.T.'s Home Hub. However, I can tell you that there is a 'delay' on connection from their end (this usually resolves itself after at the most a couple of hours) so if you set up correctly it will self correct, I don't know if this is still the case (it might have been a local difficulty at the exchange)?

In certain circumstances (older machines, Power Macs etc...) the speed can be restricted to 10 - 27 mb I don't quite know why this is, perhaps it's just a limiting factor of these older machines? I will take a look when I get my iMac back up and running.

_Paul.

Hi Andy

I am about to get Infinity and was wondering if everthing was still ok with your connection and if were able to use other DNS in the AEBS rather than BT's own?

Cheers

Neil

Got Infinity a week ago and wondered about swapping my dual band AEBS for the HomeHub3. Until I saw these posts I felt stuck at the account name and password step. Re your question regarding other DNS, with the HH3 you cannot change the DNS as it is "manufactured in" according to BT Tech Support; they also said for the account name and password to use "admin" and "admin1". I have OpenDNS set up on the Macs untnil I swap out the HH3. The AEBS certainly accepts other DNS addresses ... though sometimes it seems these need to be entered via the Network Pane of System preferences.

Thinking of migrating to BT Infinity, I have an Time Capsule, so wondered if you would recommend the BT Infinity service and what you did with the BT hub in the end?

Richard, I'm thinking of migrating to BT Infinity, I have an Time Capsule, so wondered if you would recommend the BT Infinity service? How easy is it to get going and then robust once running?

Hi Paul

I would definitely recommend infinity if you will benefit from the speed. I now regularly get 60-70Mb down and 15-20Mb (all connected by ethernet, half this by wifi) which makes the internet experience much better. I have never managed to get my dual band AEBS to work directly connected to the infinity modem and so I have remained going from the infinity to the Homehub to the AEBS by ethernet. I have to say the Homehub's wifi is much more stable and reaches further than the airport. I still run an airport network in parallel and extend this around our house with airport express and to access itunes etc.

I have not been able to password protect the homehub wifi network as some of my apple kit (iPhone, maccbook pro etc) will not connect via a password. Thankfully we are a bit out of the way so the possibility of people using our bandwidth is unlikely! the password issue is a well reported issue across various fora and seems to be to do with the homehub3 although some have suggested it depends on which exact sub model you are given.

hope it works out for you

Hi Paul,

Yes, I would recommend Infinity. It is definitely fast. I am using the HH3 and was supplied with a new one when it seemed the original one didn't work - I'm not certain, now, whether it was the HH or my iPad's wifi radio. The tech support is good though being patient with the (Indian) support people definitely helps you get good support. Richard