Home Network

Salu · 16-06-2011, 16:12

Just wondering what's the best way of setting up my home network?

I have 2 PCs, 2 laptops, a Wii, an Ipad, and 2 WIFI phones and I intend to get an xbox.

At the moment I have a superhub (at 30mb) and use the built in WIFI on auto mode at 2.5Ghz at G although it will take N...

The Wii, 1 laptop and maybe the phones?? work on G but the Ipad and other laptop work on N.

The 2 PCs are wired.

What I want to achieve is to have an N network that doesn't exclude my other G WIFI devices. Either by connecting all to N or running x2 WIFI networks...

Q1 If I switch over to N (5Ghz or 2.5Ghz??) will I not be able to use the Wii, laptop and phones over WIFI?

Q2 If I plug via WAN port, another N Router into the hub can I run a G WIFI AND an N WIFI - and chose what connects to what? Will that work? Or if I connect the router to the hub will I lose the G WIFI on the Superhub?

Any thoughts?

grim reaper · 17-06-2011, 19:27

the superhub will connect to both G and N devices at the same time (ie using N devices won't caurse the superhub to exclude your G devices) all devices should work provided they are set up with the correct ssid and passkey etc

you should set the 802.11 mode on the hub to 'upto 300mb/s so that it will provide the speed for the faster N devices .... G devices will still only connect at 54mb/s (or 108mb/s if they are enhanced G devices)

MarkProvanP · 24-06-2011, 12:00

You can add as many Access Points to the Super Hub as you want. You need to use a LAN port on the router you want to use as an AP, and you need to turn off the DHCP server on it as well. Give it a static IP outside of the range of the IPs that the Super Hub gives out (192.168.0.250 or something high would work). If you ran the SH in n-only mode and then the AP in g-mode, with suitable, different SSIDs for both, then it will work fine.

qasdfdsaq · 26-06-2011, 16:42

All N devices should be backwards compatible with G unless you specifically set them not to be.

Some people have reported setting the Superhub to 145mbps mode makes the wireless more stable than 300. I'd go so far as to suggest turning off N completely on it and using a seperate AP for your N requirements.