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    Home Networking

    Hi,

    Have a BeBox (thomson 780) and a Netgear DG834G.

    Due to mains power cables not getting on with running the ADSL/phone signal near them, I have to have a main router near the Master BT socket, and then run a CAT5 cable upstairs (network signal survies the mains cable trap!).

    I also use VOIP for work, and currently just use the VOIP port built-in to the BeBox.

    I also belive the Netgear is a better router.

    Therefore, is it possible to:-

    1. connect the Netgear DG834G to the BT Master socket for the ADSL+, and let this router be the "main daddy"?

    2. use the BeBox upstairs as a dumb ethernet switch/voip?

    If so... what would I be looking at?

    I appreciate I could stick the Netgear into "bridge" mode (if that's the right phrase), and forward on the broadband to the BeBox - but then the BeBox is "the daddy", which I was hoping to avoid...

    edit: and yes I could stick the BeBox downstairs, put in "bridge" mode, but then I have no VOIP ports upstairs - yes I could buy an adapter or even a proper VOIP phone - but hopefully I won't have to?

    Ta.

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    Re: Home Networking

    I would assume you can swap the 2 around.

    Netgear as your modem router downstairs and hard wired with Cat5 up to your BeBox which could be used as a switch or AP or bridged.

    You don't need any login IDs etc, but yo do need some settings to be changed on your Netgear (I'm not at home otherwise I'd take a screen shot to show you which ones).
    Send me a PM and I'll remember to do it tonight and post back here.

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    Re: Home Networking

    Ta but due to time constraints I've gone with:-

    Master Socket -> Netgear DG834Gv4 -> Cat5 -> Netgear switch

    And plunked a Grandstream BT200 on the desk, all working great.

    Spent quite a lot of time trying to figure out the other method, couldn't find a way of routing the VOIP on the BeBox to an ethernet port.

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