Using the WAN port on an old Plusnet Hub One

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In the original post the user asked "Can anyone please advise me whether I can use the WAN RJ45 socket on my Plusnet Hub 1 router as an ethernet port ? "  then went on to say "I have plugged the new printer into the WAN socket and it prints fine."

I wonder if he/she had plugged the printer  into the USB port ?

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@Champnet 

I wonder if he/she had plugged the printer  into the USB port ?

The USB port does not support printers on either Hub's supplied by plusnet.

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I've only ever encountered one person who mixed up an ethernet and a USB port (snapping the pins).  My neighbour's wife.  She also can't understand negative numbers, despite being her husband's "accountant" for his self employment for 10 years.  She called me round to fix a "problem with her internet" which turned out to be "not receiving the half price discount for installing fibre".  She'd been given the £30 discount on the 1st bill, and charged the £60 installation fee on the 2nd bill, and I could not convince her it was ok to give the money back before she'd paid it.  Her husband eventually said "I think Peter's right", mainly to shut her up so he could concentrate on the football match.

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@sunnyrio wrote:

@RobPN wrote:

Unless someone's giving away free solar panels, bit of an oxymoron there methinks @sunnyrio  

Actually, if you shop around, you can create electricity with solar at ONE TENTH of the price of grid electricity. 

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I do have solar panels.

However, I do not waste the free power that they generate using it to power old inefficient kit, excess power not used to reduce the basic household load is diverted into the immersion heater to provide hot water. I would estimate that there is only about 1000-1500 hours a year when the water is at maximum temperature and I am actually exporting back to the grid. This would make the payback period on a new switch to less than 9 months.

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Do not export back to the grid, they don't pay you enough.  Buy some LiFePO4 batteries and keep it for yourself.

It's not wastage to power old inefficient kit, because you're not buying the new kit.  Which saves money and the environment by not running the manufacturing and recycling processes.

The amount of power used by a switch or hub compared to the many computers connected to it is tiny.  No point in trying to save on the small things instead of the big things - that's what the water companies try to do with hosepipe bans, ignoring the fact that 95% of water use is industrial.  It's the computers which need modernising, but the cost of newer processors is absurd, especially when the old ones are completely free.

I don't use hot water, I've never seen the point.  Soap and shampoo dissolves at any temperature, I use a cold shower and wash my hands in cold water.

Well I do use hot water in the dishwasher and washing machine, but those are stupidly designed and heat their own water with electricity instead of using the (for most people, cheaper heated by gas hot water), I'd have to modify them to input heated water, or make sure the water I give them never exceeds the temperature I want to wash at.  But since I don't use gas at all, it doesn't really matter at what point the water is heated, as it will always be by electricity.  Might aswell do it on demand in the appliance.

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@Dan_the_Van wrote:

@Champnet 

I wonder if he/she had plugged the printer  into the USB port ?

The USB port does not support printers on either Hub's supplied by plusnet.

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Thanks - Just showing my ignorance..............

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Just looked up what the USB port is for.  Presumably for firmware updates.  But you can apparently plug a USB hard disk or memory stick into it, and you've got yourself a network drive!  Apparently in Linux you access it with smb://[router IP address], SMB isn't in Windows by default, but it is supported so I think you can add it.

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@sunnyrio wrote:

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@RealAleMadrid wrote:

Whatever you are trying to do with the WAN port I think you are wasting your time.  It can only be used for an outgoing  PPPoE connection to a VDSL2 modem or FTTP ONT.

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So explain how the guy in the link I first posted got a printer working on it?

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The WAN port is not designed to cater for a LAN connection. That is a fact, and any observations to the contrary are a happy coincidence. Either buy equipment to suit your needs, or deal with the fact that you have four LAN ports, not five.

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@bobpullen wrote:

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The WAN port is not designed to cater for a LAN connection. That is a fact, and any observations to the contrary are a happy coincidence. Either buy equipment to suit your needs, or deal with the fact that you have four LAN ports, not five.

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Alright alright I only asked!  So sorry for trying to make use of something....