Endless Paradigm

OK a while ago (before I switched my ISPs to BT) I was with an ISP called bulldog (more like Bullshit) and I was using a Netgear 108mbs Rangemax WG8111T router or something...
Anyways wee transferred to BT and got a free BTHomeHub. I was like "wee might aswell use this to see what it is like" and have been using it ever since (it is shite). Mainly because I was too lazy to change it back to a better router....
OK a couple of weeks ago I tried to change my router back to the Netgear one because it is faster, but it won't work :/ I mean the computer recognises it and everything but there is not internets for some reason.....has anyone had this problem?

if your ISP supplied you with the BTHomeHub, it's probably a required piece of hardware. you could set it up as a bridge to the netgear though.

How??

ive noticed that with isp's in the UK, they use a mac code to assign your internet connection, (they also have a username and password but most users can't access it).
what you could do is look for the box which your bt hub came in and it should display a mac code, in 192.168.0.1 on your pc when you netgear router is connected, check the box which says emulate mac code or something like that and then copy the mac code of the bt box in to the box on the netgear page, it should then pick the internet up, i know its what i did with my netgear N router and my o2 broadband.

This happens with sky aswell you can't change your router you need to get their configuration on your router if you wana change your router and they will never give it to you you have to buy another of them

Cheers guys!!! Thanks ∂є∂αт I'll try that :)

I hope not amzter :/

yeah so two things to try, try emulating the MAC address (maybe called MAC cloning) of the BTHomeHub in the netgear's setup.
if that doesn't work, try going into the BTHomeHub's settings and look for something along the lines of, uh, setting it up as a bridge (can't remember the different terms they may use, essentially you're just telling the one router to act as a gateway to the netgear, which will handle the routing)
I'm not going to be of much more help, i can't find the setting in my own router to do this at the moment :/

god speed!

erm... why not just do what BT says:

http://bt.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/bt.cfg/ph..._faqid=644