Accessing BT Business Hub 2700 HGV settings for use as bridge

[davidseeber]

Hi all,

I can see there are already many messages covering the topic(s) im asking about, but I haven't been able to find the exact solution:

I have one BT Business Hub set up and transmitting Wifi

I have bought a second model and would like to use it in Bridge mode.

I know how to set this up and where to go, etc.

My problem is that I cannot connect to the second Hub in order to set it up. 

I have found out the IP address of the Hub, its 169.254.76.137 but when I type this into Opera it fails.

I have tried changing my laptop's IP to 169.254.76.100 as suggested in another post, but this doesn't work.

I cannot ping to the Hub either.

Btw I have been trying these while connected via LAN cable. 

I am sure that I'm missing something simple, the Hub seems to be working fine.

Can any of you boffins help me out?

Thanks in advance,

Dave 

[kuerten]

169.254 is an invalid IP. You dont have to assign a static in you lap top. Check fitst if the AP has the capability to be in bridge mode. If yes, enable it.

[davidseeber]

You have either not read or not understood my message.

I am unable to connect with the BT 2700 HGV at all, that is the problem!

I need to do this to set it up in bridge mode, once I can connect im fine.

[TimDurham75]

The default network range for the 2700 is 192.168.1.0 / 255.255.255.0

With your local network card set to "automatic ip"  or a static in this range you should *always* be able to connect to the device on a *cable* connection to configure it.   If not, because of some strange configuration, then a factory reset should restore all defaults allowing appropriate reconfiguration.

Wireless configuration, in the first instance, might not be possible to connect if, say, MAC address filtering is turned on and the machine has not yet been registered/permitted to access the system - that would be a different case: first time configuration would require a cable.

Switching the device settings to anything else may then require a similar reconfiguration of the local machine to continue to have visibility of the router when it will become disconnected.   If you are sitting on some alternative IP subnet on your machine then you would need to manually set up a route with "ROUTE ADD" command; on windows; to tell windows that the foreign subnet can, in fact, be reached via your host IP - that you can tell windows how to correctly route the traffic even though strictly speaking the subnet might appear to be "unreachable".

This should then allow you to create the required configuration on all machines but, as suggested, it might require you to make temporary subnet changes to allow the initial configuration.

Regards

[popcornuk · Accepted solution]

If you are trying to connect to a hub that's already in bridge mode then you will always get an invalid 169 address if your network card is set to auto/dhcp mode. You need to manually specify an IP address on the computer that's connecting to it.

IP:192.168.1.XXX (XXX will be from 1-253)

Subnet: 255.255.255.0

Gateway: 192.168.1.254

Primary DNS: 192.168.1.254

Secondary DNS: Can leave it blank

Is there a reason why you want the second hub? If it's to extend the range of your wireless I would suggest a wireless repeater instead.

[davidseeber]

Thanks for the settings and the help, I'll try these next. I think what I did was not specify the right address on Gateway.

The reason I'm using BT Hub is because it gives good signal. No particular reason otherwise.