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Does anybody have this or has any knowledge of it?

I will be moving house soon and am looking to change my ISP and this looks like a superb deal,  Im currently on AOL 2meg  and i can get 6.5meg with BT for the same price at my new place (the web site checked my post code and say's 6.5 is achievable)

I gather that the home hub is a wireless set up but as im getting a desktop PC how do i set it up with this (the PC will be in a room without a main phone socket)

Thanks
Jim.

I found the service at BT shocking, And the charges for exceeding the DL limits are a joke, I suggest you look for an alternative mate, I know I did.

The total package is unlimited,  Im sure I read a post by Laz saying he swears by it

Im on BT and have to say its been faultless! The only time it has ever been down was when they did maintanence to the line, so have nothing but good to say. Also i have unlimited aswell.

Im on the total broadband package,and its excellant.
I just hate the BT customer service if you have to use it.

Well if it is good then I wont need to use it.....hopefully

hi,

Are you sayiny you are setting up wireless for the first time. Just make sure you get one that has a good range. Summer in the garden playing poker is great but you need a good range.

Hi Denis, 

No I currently have AOL wireless but am moving house and getting a desktop so wont be playing in the garden (or bath, toilet....damn)  But how do i set the wireless Hub  up with my desk top?

Just thought that this BT option sounded like a good deal

i got a home hub. had a lot of problems at first with it losing connection for just enough time to time me out of a hand. they say it can do this for a couple of weeks until your line gets used to it or something ??? mostly fine now. bt service was great a few years ago but shocking now. i use the ethernet cable. can't you run it under the carpet or something?

Will having a telephone extension cable effect the connection speed byron?  If it doesnt then that will be no problem to stick it under the carpet

I have bthome hub, no probs, not had to use customer service, you should have no problem with pc in another romm if it is up to spec

sorry i dunno mate. computer moran i'm afraid.

Im buying one new, Is there a way to make it connect to the hub wirelessly Dewi?

LOL me too

I use BT, its fine, i ditched the home hub and use a belkin

But the phone looks so cool ;)

Buy one of these if you don't mind openning you PC up
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/120977

Or if you don't want to open it buy a USB wireless dongle
http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/115832

The PCI card (the 1st one) will have a better range as it has an external antenna, but only just. Either will work fine.

Thanks RichEO,  Is the dongle you state the best one or does it really not matter? (ie, more you spend, better the product)

No difference. I just go for the cheapest assuming it doesn't have any really bad reviews.

I had bt hub installed a couple of weeks ago. Range seems petty good.

Ive had BT Homehub, never had a problem, router actuallyy is pretty good wirless range. Cannot fault it, havnt had to use customer service as it worked straight away :)

My Dad has this and his desktop is connected via an ethernet cable (I'm not sure why you'd want to go to the extra effort and expense of making your desktop wireless?).

Whenever I go to their house my laptop connects fine.  There were problems initially, but my Dad spoke to their helpdesk who called us back and took us through setting it up.  It took 20 minutes, and has worked perfectly ever since.  I think it would have worked from the off if my Dad hadn't played around with it when he got it...

Hmmmm

I have had it for a while.

I removed their software as it puts a load of crap on the pc that I don't want.  I tried to set up the router as secure but couldn't get connected when I did this so I just reverted to using the modem.  Everything worked fine till a few weeks ago when the speed drooped and constantly got disconnects.  Customer service absolutely appalling - the worst I've experienced.  It has stabilised a bit but still getting more discos than I did b

BT Broadband has been great~ no problems.

Had to get my username and password from customer services on Saturday and I spent about 20 min trying to understand a strong Delhi accent for what should have been a simple 2 min call. It is just so frustrating and I almost got to the point of just hanging up , and would have done if it hadn't been so important to me.

Because the hub and PC will be in different rooms and tbh, it's easier to stick in a wireless card than to run a cable where you can't see it / trip over it and for about £10 a wireless card will save that hassle ;) But like you say, use a cable if they are next to each other, I know a few people that got confused about wireless allowing multiple computers to share the connection (thinking you can't do it with a cable) and so had their router on top of the desktop which was connected wirelessly ;frustrated;

Thanks for your replies guys, Mixed reviews really but seems more people find it good then not so will order it before i move

sorry, have come to this a bit late.#

I like BT Home Hub. The range is better (in my experience) than any 3com, netgear or belkin product I have used. Also I seem to get better connection speeds with BTHH than 3rd party routers.

My advice is to avoid usb dongles. from a technical perspective the PCI cards are better, as they are native TCP/IP based. the USB stuff has to make a conversion which, however small is an overhead in terms of performance.

Thanks Laz,  Are the PCI cards easy to install or do I need to take it to a specialist?

They are a piece of piss. I did it for mine and my housemates'  pcs and lappies in my student house. Takes bout 10/15 minutes tops!

yeah, just be careful before you rip the cover off your pc and stick the card in - some of them want you install the software/drivers first before putting the card in. IF you do it the wrong way round you can be stuck in a horrible driver limob world.

your only other question is whether you should allow you cards manuacturers software control your wireless network access, or get the microsoft utility to do it. I honestly dont know the answer to that one. I would be interested to hear different views on it, but maybe I should just toddle off to a techy forum software and quickly lose the will to live.....


pm me if you need anything else.

My vote goes with windows to run the wireless thingy-mu-jig.