Can you use another router with Orange broadband ? I have a brand new Netgear wireless adapter with 5 ports on it as the live box only has 1.
Other wise I have to buy a LAN Ethernet Network Hub Switch 10/100 which comes with 5 ports and I only want 2. I want to connect 2 xbox 360 on the same connection. These cost a £10 + leads on ebay
Can you use another router with Orange broadband ? I have a brand new Netgear wireless adapter with 5 ports on it as the live box only has 1.
Other wise I have to buy a LAN Ethernet Network Hub Switch 10/100 which comes with 5 ports and I only want 2. I want to connect 2 xbox 360 on the same connection. These cost a £10 + leads on ebay
You can turn a router into a switch by turning off it's DHCP server. However sometimes other settings may get in the way with this.
The main part is you need to access the config of the router, look for the DHCP option and turn it off. Once done try connecting the two together and see if works. There can be other settings that effect this and they may need to be tweaked. I'm no expert at this though as I've never done it myself.
I have managed to get a double adapter a bit like the BT double adapters you put in the wall socket apart from this is for ethernet connection it was £3.99 from a local computer shop and he told me there selling like hot cakes.
Its called a RJ45 Modular Ouplex Adapter made by Philex if anyones interested.
Not ideal but if you connect both 360's through it then it shouldn't be too bad, they shouldn't normally use the full ethernet bandwidth unless both accessing the PC at the same time and then they'd have to share the PC's connection to the livebox so it all balances out.
Well scrap that idea dont know what happened but when I plugged the adapter in it must have done something as it wont work now and neither does the port.
I phoned Orange to get it replaced and they said they dont give the livebox away for free anymore and it would cost me £5 per month, so I told him that if I bought a phone off Orange and it went wrong in 6 months time and because they dont do the tarriff anymore would the refuse to switch the phone. He said no.
I told him I want a supervisor to call me. Im still waiting and in that time Ive managed to hook up my netgear wireless router and its ok. Sometimes a bit slow but hopefully it will sort itself out.
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