BT Homehub / Virgin media ADSL
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BT Homehub / Virgin media ADSL
Is it possible to configure and use a BT homehub on a Virgin media connection?
I have recently moved house and binned BT for having gash customer service with regards to miving house and reconnecting. I now have a surplus homehub. The Virgin package came with a netgear router, which works but - I was wondering if the BT hub would be better. Just by way of an experiment really.
Cheers.
I have recently moved house and binned BT for having gash customer service with regards to miving house and reconnecting. I now have a surplus homehub. The Virgin package came with a netgear router, which works but - I was wondering if the BT hub would be better. Just by way of an experiment really.
Cheers.
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I'm not cable, just ADSL. Will check out the unlock link.
Does anyone know if the homehub is actually better than the standard Netgear router I have provided from Virgin? Is this experiment worthwhile?
Could I use the BT phone VOIP connected to Homehub via Virgin ADSL?
Cheers.
Does anyone know if the homehub is actually better than the standard Netgear router I have provided from Virgin? Is this experiment worthwhile?
Could I use the BT phone VOIP connected to Homehub via Virgin ADSL?
Cheers.
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Does anyone know if the homehub is actually better than the standard Netgear router I have provided from Virgin? Is this experiment worthwhile?
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From: on the beach
Just changed from orange to BT and have a HomeHub 3.
Early impressions are that my orange hub linked to my PC faster than the BT jobbie. I'm forever having to 'reconnect' the Home Hub to my PC. It's early days so I'll have to wait to find out if things settle down.
Some of the earlier BT HomeHubs were known to have problems (don't ask me what they were, I've read this on another Forum) but the introduction of version 3 was meant to have sorted it all out.
Early impressions are that my orange hub linked to my PC faster than the BT jobbie. I'm forever having to 'reconnect' the Home Hub to my PC. It's early days so I'll have to wait to find out if things settle down.
Some of the earlier BT HomeHubs were known to have problems (don't ask me what they were, I've read this on another Forum) but the introduction of version 3 was meant to have sorted it all out.
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I had a clear out of the understair cupboard of infinite possibilities yesterday.
I chucked about ten routers, several wifi aps and related modems. And a couple of usb modems - remember them?
The ones I kept for a rainy day were Sitecom and Zyxel. Anything Netgear in the old blue metal boxes is superb, their white plastic era is absolute junk. I'm ambivalent about Belkin, but threw it away anyway.
I'm currently on BT with HH2. Seems OK, but has dropped out four times in as many months. Not tragic but the diagnostic, while clever when it works, is not the be all and end all. Next time it does it I'll probably go for the Sitecom.
Curiously, the shop that sells more non functioning electronics than could be thought possible, is where I get the Sitecom stuff. Who?
Maplin.
I chucked about ten routers, several wifi aps and related modems. And a couple of usb modems - remember them?
The ones I kept for a rainy day were Sitecom and Zyxel. Anything Netgear in the old blue metal boxes is superb, their white plastic era is absolute junk. I'm ambivalent about Belkin, but threw it away anyway.
I'm currently on BT with HH2. Seems OK, but has dropped out four times in as many months. Not tragic but the diagnostic, while clever when it works, is not the be all and end all. Next time it does it I'll probably go for the Sitecom.
Curiously, the shop that sells more non functioning electronics than could be thought possible, is where I get the Sitecom stuff. Who?
Maplin.
