Help installing a switch with virgin superhub - novice!

I'm not in the UK and so have no first hand experience with this, but it seems that the problems people have with the Superhub are not remedied merely by adding a switch.

As the stickied post says up top of the forum, one must put the Superhub into "modem only" mode and add a router.  There are lots of folks here who have done that and some recent threads about this.

I'm not at home right now, but I seem to recall that the Netgear 5 port switch doesn't care which port you connect the router TO, and which ones you connect the downstream devices to.  It autodetects it.

But just to be safe, try it the way Netgear show it in some of their connection diagrams -- connect the Superhub to port 1 and the nas and nds to 2 and 3.  See if that makes a difference   They have other diagrams where the incoming connection does not go to port 1, so I really don't think it matters.

Thanks, I recall the problems but I was not wanting to add another router next to the superhub and a switch as the location is in my lounge on the sideboard!

Need to have a think about performance v box count!

There is no reason the set up should not work regardless of how crap the superhub is.

THe switch is 'dumb' there is nothing to set. It should be parked into one of the four available ethernet slots on the super hub, then connect devices to the remaining ports of the switch, it should work a intended.

CDI,

I also have this virgin hub, as above the switch connected to hub and devices to the Netgear switch, My NDX would not auto connect so had to do this manually with the IP address, worked fine but the device name does not show in n stream. Spoke to very nice man from Naim at recent event about that who confirmed that all was in order and the "fault" is the virgin hub. 

Andy 

Its nicknamed the super dud for a reason.

i switched mine to modem only and put a decent router on it.

Ditto. Truly rubbish router and wi-fi.

I thought the BT offering was bad.....

Great for getting cable modem speeds though.

Thanks all, guess I was just a bit daft yesterday! All sorted now switch working fine. Just need a 555ps dr now!

I have continuing problems with the superdud and have decided to install a router as per garyi set-up.

Would appreciate any recommendations - Draytek looks good but expensive.(I think Phil Harris of Naim uses one)

Have also seen that a new "ac" standard will be replacing type "n" routers - should I leapfrog into the future and just pay the price?

Thanks for any suggestions

Asus routers are v good.

I can very highly recommend the Billion BiPac 7800n. I presume Billions other routers are as stable and reliable.