help a complete newbie! PLEASE!!!!

[steve3123]

Ok i have a BT home hub and a netgear DG834g router, now the home hub is running a hub phone and BT vision (so it must be left on!) i have a laptop connected via wireless and a wired connected pc to the netgear. I know that the homehub cuts off the netgear when its plugged in but my kid wants to use the main pc to access the net, the pc is kinda old so no wireless networking on it and i dont really want to buy a wireless card for it. So is there anyway that i could fool the netgear into connecting to the homehub so the pc can still go on line? The home hub has the sockets to 'plug' another phone into it and i was wondering if there was no way to ''convince'' the netgear that it was connected to the internet via wireless would it connect if the netgear was plugged into the homehub? I dont wanna do it unless i have to, as i would prefer it wireless! thanks for any info!

[ormus55]

why not just use a cat5e ethernet cable to connect the pc direct to the bt hub?
so much simpler. and better speed too.

[Austin_KW]

What you want is WDS. You tell the netgear to wirelessly bridge and repeat the hubs wireless signal.

Older netgear routers do not support WDS but I think it can be done on newer models.

Set both routers to use the same wireless channels.
You tell the netgear to bridge to the wireless MAC address of the hub
You tell the hub to bridge to the wireless MAC address of the netgear.
You use no encryption or WEP encryption (same key on both).
You turn off the dhcp server on the netgear.