Re: Connecting Two Routers for a Home Network

In article <(E-Mail Removed)>, BT Newsgroups
says...

> Any ideas appreciated. wyatt007 at btinternet dot com
>
Why are you using a crossover?

Is DHCP set to run on both routers? It shouldn't be.

Have you set the IP address of each router manually?

Have you set the default gateway of the Vigor to the IP address of the
Homehub?



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On Dec 11, 6:06*pm, Conor <conor_tur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> In article <c7OdnaJ7qaWEldzUnZ2dnUVZ8uydn...@bt.com>, BT Newsgroups
> says...

>
> Why are you using a crossover?
>


I was thinking the same, I unknowingly had my daughters PC connected
to a BT voyager router via a crossover & I'm sure it had something to
do with shortening the life of it. I figured with the amount of
traffic she was creating (video, music etc) that the poor old router
was being driven to death by heat because it was having work twice as
hard with the crossover rather than using a straight network cable.

I could be wrong. ??

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:26:15 -0800 (PST)
Marge <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

> On Dec 11, 6:06Â*pm, Conor <conor_tur...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > In article <c7OdnaJ7qaWEldzUnZ2dnUVZ8uydn...@bt.com>, BT Newsgroups
> > says...
>
> >
> > Why are you using a crossover?
> >
>
>
> I was thinking the same, I unknowingly had my daughters PC connected
> to a BT voyager router via a crossover & I'm sure it had something to
> do with shortening the life of it. I figured with the amount of
> traffic she was creating (video, music etc) that the poor old router
> was being driven to death by heat because it was having work twice as
> hard with the crossover rather than using a straight network cable.
>
> I could be wrong. ??

I think so - once it's detected the type of connection it shouldn't
make any difference at all.