This isn’t a new revelation; I’d already been tipped off by various friends in the industry about how god-awful this device is. However, today was my first personal experience with the thing, and it did little to ingratiate itself to me. It’s also unnaturally large given how light (and how obviously empty) the box is.
My cousin and her husband were unfortunate enough to have one foisted upon them by BT, and had not been able to get the wireless working since it arrived – which was hardly surprising since the integrated wireless was not only not broadcasting its SSID, but appeared to be disabled entirely, despite several admin pages on the box claiming the contrary. After a few cursory searches of various forums, I quickly learned that this is not an entirely unusual problem.
If you are unfortunate enough to have to deal with this retrograde piece of rubbish, may I recommend the following resources:
- Lock your Home Hub into firmware version 6.2.2.6 from Jarvisers Workshop BT Home Hub,
- the BT Home Hub firmware recovery tool,
- and finally, somewhere to get some decent kit and an ISP that won’t sell you such junk in the first place.
It did eventually acquiesce and start broadcasting – incredibly, the device does even support WPA2 in the latest firmware, though since BT routinely send firmware upgrades to it remotely, I won’t be surprised if it stops working again at some point. Not a system I’ll be recommending any time soon.
#1 by dark_wulf on 10 May, 2008 - 11.41 am
My deepest condolences for having to deal with the biggest piece of shit BT have ever spawned from their factories. Well, apart from Phorm but thats another story.
I once tried to put this thing between my router and PC to expand the network a bit for wireless. It failed miserably and now resides in the deepest corner of my room rotting away.