Anyone having problems with airport extreme and a BT homehub?

i have a BT homehub broadcasting wirelessly connected into a airport extreme unit.
the wireless connection keeps on dropping off, i run diagnostics and sometimes i have to re-enter the network password and other times it reports airport is working fine.
i am sure the problem is with the homehub. i wonder if i turned the homehub's wireless of the connection might be better!
any thoughts?
many thanks

Yes, that might help reduce the likelihood that these two wireless routers are interfering with each other's wireless network, resulting in the symptoms you have described.
The other thing you could do is configure the AEBSn for "n only" wireless transmission. You could then use the HomeHub for slower b/g connections, and the AEBSn for faster n-only connections.

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