The Gorse Fox has always commented that despite 43 years in IT, he has no appreciable knowledge of networks.
The arrival (eventually) of the bT Hub yesterday has stretched what little knowledge he had to its limits. The Hub is set up to use a different range of network addresses - and unlike the preceeding Netgear hub, doesn't allow simple configuration of static addresses - they have to be done in the client devices. This meant a load of faffing around and changing of addresses in various machines. Eventually everything is pretty stable... except the Gorse Fox's backup system which steadfastly refuses to handle the re-addressed NAS devices in a consistent and trustworthy manner.
This is obviously going to take some mucking about. But that can wait until after today's football.
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What you could do is simply use the new BT device as a router and use your old device as the hub, that way you don't need to make any changes with statics. Depends if you want 2 devices or not!
Yes, the Gorse Fox has been considering that very approach - though still wrestling with the actual topology of such a network and whether he may need extra NICs in some devices.
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