Having last week moved to BT's broadband (from Be - who totally mucked up their mail server; I'm not that impressed by BT now I've moved: from fire to frying pan, I think :-) ) I've been looking at the homehub 3 that came 'free'. I'm using my existing netgear for the broadband modem, and so have been able to play with the HH3's PPPoE interface, that would normally plug into their Infinity modem. I fancied using it to establish a separate network for wireless on my LAN. It's all working, more or less; but I'm very puzzled by the way the HH3 "phones home" - not to BT itself, rather to pbthdm.bt.motive.com which I think is owned by Lucent. It seems to send some plain-text http stuff containing the modem serial number and other configuration stuff; plus some https traffic I've obviously not been able to analyze. Anyone know what it's getting up to? I've got that server firewalled off for now! (And it seems fairly unreliable, at least running with mpd5 as server - LCP keep-alives seem to me there, and although it's currently working OK as a WAP, I can't access the control web page, and it's not responding to pings. That comes back though if I kill and restart the PPPoE server.)