BT Infinity, HH4 and Sky On Demand

<reposted from original in BT Sport>
Has anyone managed to successfully connect a Sky+HD box by Ethernet to the BT Home Hub 4?
I keep getting Local Network and Internet FAIL on the Sky Settings>Network menu (Reset and Manually configure).
According to Sky the router has to be LLC-based for multiplexing.  Does anyone know if the Home Hub 4 (or HH3 for that matter) is LLC-based?
I have connected my old ADSL2+ Netgear router locally by Ethernet to the Sky box and this is recognised in the Settings>Network page as a local network (the Netgear is LLC-based by default).
This is very puzzling because the Home Hub 4 did connect with the Sky Box momentarily at the first attempt.  Sufficient time to designate a static IP Address and Mac code exchange.  Since then it is not recognised.
I have tried ..
enabling DHCP on the HH4
putting the Sky Box address in the DMZ
disabling the firewall
rebuilding the Sky Planner
system reset of the Sky Box
manually configuring the Sky Box (192.168.1.76; 2555.255.255.0; 192.168.1.254; 192.168.1.254) for IP, Mask, Gateway, DNS.
All to no avail ...
Orwell only got the date wrong ...
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Hi DS,
I tried that but I think I am looking in wrong place as LLC-based is a configuration of ADSL.
The problem appears to be on the network routing side rather than the modem.
The Netgear defaults to an address range of 192.168.0.2 - 192.168.0.254
The HH4 defaults to 192.168.1.64 - 192.168.1.253.
Perhaps the Sky Box expects the range offered by the Netgear?
I there any technical reason why I cannot configure the HH4 thus ...
Gateway: 192.168.0.1
Network Range: 192.168.0.2-192.168.0.253
Orwell only got the date wrong ...

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