[jem]

I've just gotten off of the phone to CS arranging to upgrade my V+ to a Tivo box and while doing this I thought I'd see how much it would cost to upgrade my BB connection at the same time.

I've had an absolutely rock-solid 20 Meg connection for some time now with virtually zero downtime and issues, I knew about the upgrade to 30 Meg and oddly enough if I were to go for it my monthly bill would be actually be reduced by £1.50 (go figure) but I've opted to upgrade to 50 Meg at the same time as the Tivo install for only a few pounds more than I'm paying now, as well as the installation fee of course.

Now at the moment I have the standard modem linked to a Linksys wireless router, I am running a Windows Home server so I have a couple of inbound port translation rules on it and a fairly non-standard IP address range. Now I appreciate that I'm going to be given a SuperHub for the 50 Meg and, believe me, I've read all of the threads on this and know exactly how bad some people consider it to be, but I'm happy to give it the benefit of the doubt and see for myself.

Assuming that it works fine for me, what I'd like to know is can I configure it to match the setup on my Linksys? Specifically can it be set to have a LAN address of 172.22.57.126 with a subnet mask of 255.255.255.128?-In case anyone is wondering, I had issues forwarding WoL packets to the default broadcast address on the Linksys unless I changed the internal subnet, hence the /25 mask. I have a few machines with static IP addresss and a few with reserved IP addresses allocated via DHCP from the Linksys, presumably the SuperHub's DHCP server can do reservations. Is it true that you can't change the DNS server address allocated to clients on the SuperHub? That'll be annoying but not the end of the world.

Is any or all of the above possible on the Superhub? If it isn't or if I do suffer from issues with it, I can always do the trick of using my existing router as well and DMZing it on the Superhub -double NAT might be a pain to work around- and later on kill the routing functions when the firmware update comes out.

It's not being installed for another two weeks so plenty of time to replan my network if necessary.

Many thanks in advance for any thought's on this.