Do I need to use the business hub 3.0?

[Flaggers]

I currently have the 40/20 infinity service and have ordered the upgrade to 80/40.

The business hub 3.0 arrived this morning ahead of the line "unlocking" and I need to know if I have to use this hub.

I currently have the openreach echolife HG612 - 2B modem going into my Neatgear prosafe FVS336GV2 firewall as I find the BT provided hubs flaky at best and seriously annoying when trying to keep 50+ users happy on interwebs.

I would ideally like to continue using the Netgear, so is this possible?

All information welcomed.

thanks

[mydearcosmo]

Nice post, Flaggers. This is very informative. Thanks a lot.

[Albertosaurus]

Thanks for this post. After upgrading from ADSL to Infinity (Fibre) I had a similar issue but with a Buffalo router instead of a Netgear behind the BH3.0 and with the Windows server behind that.

I solved the problem of port-forwarding to the Windows server by allowing the Buffalo to pick up a DHCP address from the BH3.0 so that it appeared in the Port Forwarding device list as AIRSTATION and assigned that as the destination for HTTPS, SMTP and other ports. The config. of the Buffalo did not have to change since it was already doing its own port forwarding to the LAN address of the Windows server.

I'm not quite clear from your 'solved' post how you managed the port forwarding to a non-DHCP address.