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Installed the BT whole home system last night, it's night and day better than the Virgin wifi I have, and the Virgin wifi through an extender plug, get full speed throughout the whole house, and a decent usable speed out in the summer house at the back of the garden too.
To save me having to change all device details, would it be feasible to make the Virgin SH3 router modem only, so turning off wifi, and renaming the BT mesh set up as the same network name and password?
Cheers!
Yes but each device will still have to reconnect to the 'new' WiFi.
Cool, cheers.
I don't think Virgin's box will work in 'bridge' mode (I.e. just as a modem), but worth checking. It's the reason I've gone with Plusnet so I can use a standalone modem box with my own separate router and access point (Both from Ubiquity). It's the 2019 version of geeking out with HiFi separates!
What that means is that you are still reliant on the chip in the Virgin box for DHCP, routing, NAT etc, so if it's truly rubbish hardware then it might still be problematic, although my recent experience shows me that the bottleneck tends to be the Wireless AP hardware on ISP-owned routers. I'm not familiar with the BT stuff, but you should be able to use the routing on the Virgin box, and use the BT box as an access point only. You can then turn the wifi off from the Virgin box interface and exclusively use the (presumably more robust?) BT system.
That might as well have been in Swahili. 🙂
No offence superficial!
Nobeer which Virgin hub have you got?
The later ones can have a bit of a problem when running in modem mode due to a problem with the chips used inside. It manifests as the internet dropping out regularly, wifi still working just no outside connection. It's the main reason I went over to Zen as our hub was replaced twice with no positive effect.
You will need to set up all the machine network address allocations (DHCP), DNS (internet directory enquiries) and any other specialities that you have set (not likely given the Swahili comment but let's be nice).
It does mean any calls for support to Virgin will be difficult as they will blame your equipment. Network restarts are a bit longer as it's modem (hub), BT discs and then computer to check on connectivity, with a wait between each start as the device boots up.
Aye, thanks for being nice sandwich, I think I'll just leave as is! 🙂