Well, it's been a long, long time since my last posting! How time flies, when you're having fun!!!!

So what's been happening? Work, work, work and more work mostly! On top of that marshalling planning permission thorugh the local council for the loft, just a bit more work and just one teensy holiday to finish it off...

However in the background other things have gone on... I have managed to eliminate the router from the Z21 for one! This is it, for an Apple Airport Network connected via a BT Homehub (this may be specific to BT Fibre):

1. You need a second generation airport express for the Z21 (this is the little box with the power cable, not the one with that plugs direct into socket).
2. You need to remove the home hub and plug the Airport Express directly into the ADSL modem.
3. Using the Airport utility, connect to the Airport Express and enter the Internet Connection part.
4. Select PPPoE, then enter the username as "bthomehub@btbroadband.com", use a sinlge space as the password.
5. Now go the LAN settings and select "192.168.0" as the network

Now that was the simple bit! Next you need to get a computer, the Z21 and the router. Wire them all up using old fashioned ethernet cables.

1. On the computer (PC or Mac): ping 192.168.0.111
2. After you get a response (or 4) from the Z21, type "arp -a" (Mac, PC to follow)
3. Look for the line saying 192.168.0.111, after it is a bunch of numbers (and letters) separated by ':'s, this is the MAC address

We're almost there! So disconnect all that, plug the Z21 into the aiport's ethernet port and continue:

4. Go back to the Airport configuration utility and head back to the Advancedsettings, select DHCP & NAT
5. Add a new entry, giving the IP address (192.168.0.111) and the MAC address.

Now you're done! No more switching Wifi networks...

Please if you have a problem, ask your local techy (or grandson, but they might not understand the cables bit)... Good luck!