BT home hub issues?

Going back to BT. (before anyone says not to, I was with them before and
had a flawless service so have no reason not to use them again).

Now about this home hub, anyone here using it? Any issues I should be aware
of?
I am happy with my router, do I have to use the home hub?

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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> Going back to BT. (before anyone says not to, I was with
> them before and had a flawless service so have no reason
> not to use them again).

Just out of interest, if that is the case, why did you leave..?

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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>> Going back to BT. (before anyone says not to, I was with
>> them before and had a flawless service so have no reason
>> not to use them again).
>
> Just out of interest, if that is the case, why did you leave..?

It was purely on a financial basis, I wanted a cheaper service to save some
money but it hasn't really worked out.

Beck wrote:
>
> Now about this home hub, anyone here using it? Any issues I should be
> aware of?

A friend who I 'support' has one. Can't say I'm overly impressed. Lots of
reboots required, flaky wireless performance, an admin interface that
believes interface=obfuscate.

Apart from that, it's fine

"Grant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Beck wrote:
>>
>> Now about this home hub, anyone here using it? Any issues I should be
>> aware of?
>
> A friend who I 'support' has one. Can't say I'm overly impressed. Lots of
> reboots required, flaky wireless performance, an admin interface that
> believes interface=obfuscate.
>
> Apart from that, it's fine

Thankyou. I might just stick to my plain old router then :-)

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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>> Going back to BT. (before anyone says not to, I was with
>> them before and had a flawless service so have no reason
>> not to use them again).
>
> Just out of interest, if that is the case, why did you leave..?

Looks like I will not be moving after all. BT now have a crappy system
whereby the broadband can only be billed by direct debit along with the
phonebill. They cannot be seperate. Seeing as my mum pays the phonebill
and I pay the broadband, BT have lost a customer.

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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> Looks like I will not be moving after all. BT now have a crappy system
> whereby the broadband can only be billed by direct debit along with the
> phonebill. They cannot be seperate. Seeing as my mum pays the phonebill
> and I pay the broadband, BT have lost a customer.

Thats one of the reasons why I've left BT and gone to Sky Broadband for £10
a month!

I am Unhappy that I have to pay BT BB still evan though I won't be useing
it.

Think the best thing to do is change the package down to option one and pay
them a rip off amount of £17.99 a month (£53.97p every 3 months)

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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> Looks like I will not be moving after all. BT now have a
> crappy system whereby the broadband can only be billed by
> direct debit along with the phonebill. They cannot be
> seperate. Seeing as my mum pays the phonebill and I pay
> the broadband, BT have lost a customer.

Can't she pay the bill and you pay her the broadband component..?

Ivor

"Ivor Jones" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Beck" <beck@none> wrote in message
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>
>> Looks like I will not be moving after all. BT now have a
>> crappy system whereby the broadband can only be billed by
>> direct debit along with the phonebill. They cannot be
>> seperate. Seeing as my mum pays the phonebill and I pay
>> the broadband, BT have lost a customer.
>
> Can't she pay the bill and you pay her the broadband component..?

She doesn't pay by DD either, she pays by payment card weekly.

"Beck" <beck@none> wrote:

> "Grant" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> > Beck wrote:
> >>
> >> Now about this home hub, anyone here using it? Any issues I should be
> >> aware of?
> >
> > A friend who I 'support' has one. Can't say I'm overly impressed. Lots of
> > reboots required, flaky wireless performance, an admin interface that
> > believes interface=obfuscate.
> >
> > Apart from that, it's fine
>
> Thankyou. I might just stick to my plain old router then :-)

They're not that bad. The wifi bit can be flaky due to auto channel
allocation. I set it to use a manually allocated channel and it's been
remarkably stable ever since.

My connection has been up for 5 days - the last restart was for a
firmware upgrade from what I can tell.
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