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I wanted to try putting the hub into modem mode, plugging the Belkin into an ethernet port and experiment with the Belkin at various points in the living room (Kymmy's suggestion). The hub and two desktop PC are in the extension at the back.

I have a 10 meter ethernet cable, enough for placing the Belkin under the second floor front bedrooms. According to the hub documentation only one ethernet port on the hub is enabled in modem mode so the desktop PC wired connections would have to plug into Belkin's ethernet ports. That means I have to use three ethernet cables (sigh) and I have only one at the moment.

The back bed room on the second floor is more or less on top of the hub. I tried the netbook and laptops from there and found wireless worked fine without connections dropping. Then wireless will probably also work in the front bedrooms if I move the hub to a position just underneath. I want to try this, but


Q1. exactly what kind of cable etc do I need to order from ebay, amazon or other online stores? A 5m cable will be sufficient. I have absolutely no knowledge about this and would probably get it wrong if I guess.

Ken
P.S The VM entry point is below the living room window. Inside it splits into a cable that feeds the TV and the broadband cable that I like to leave intact.
I will disconnect the existing broadband cable and attach the new one going to the hub instead at the TV&broadband splitting point.

Q2. three of the four ports of the hub are disabled in modem mode. If there is a way to disable wireless of the hub then could I plug in Belkin and the two desktop PCs into the ethernet ports of the hub and have the hub handle the wired connections and Belkin the wireless?
In advanced settings for the hub there is a heading 'Enhance Feature' with two ticked toggles:
Enable Super Hub Wireless Radio
Enable SSID Broadcast
Would unticking these totally disable the wireless of the hub?