Advice needed on home hubs

Hi all,
I'm currently on a long line and having slow speed problems and drop outs. I'm looking to buy a new hub as a last ditch attempt to improve the situation, my line attenuation is 63.5dB.
Can anyone offer advice as to whats the best to purchase for a long line?, hopefully not too expensive.
I have read that the bt2700hgv is quite good, appreciate any help.
many thanks
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the business hub has a good reputation for holding a connection on a long line like yours and it is not expensive of the will know auction site. just make sure it's new
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Help Needed-bt home hub 2.0 event log messages

Hi, Please can someone have a look at the event log messages below. Is someone trying to hack me? there are loads more of these messages i've only copy and pasted a few of them.
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Hi JM7HUB and welcome,
No, you're not being hacked. It's to do with BTHub phone (Broadband Talk - BBT) and the hub, in your case the hub 2A.
It's a test that BT seem to carry out, normally (IIRC) after a reboot of the hub or possibly at random times - it's been a long time since I used BBT. I'll guess there are some random names mentioned on some of the other VOIP events?
If you don't use a BBT, you can turn this off by entering the hub manager - type bthomehub.home or 192.164.1.254 in to your browser, click settings, advanced settings, continue to adavnced settings, telephony - there should be an option there to turn it off. This should then stop the events.
edit. The telephone light on the hub will go out, but any registered hub phone should still operate as a 'normal' phone using your landline number.
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Here is my situation:
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kokings wrote:
Here is my situation:
My income is $125k a year but have FICO of 650.
Spouse's income is 80k a year with about 710 FICO
We have $200k for a down payment
We want to buy a home that is $840k. We can put 20 percent down or all the $200k which would be about 24 percent.
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What options would we have for qualifying? My fico is low so not sure what we can do. My parents have 720+ credit and good income as well, could they co-borrow or co-sign along with my spouse?
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Newbee Needs Help. BT Home Hub Wireless connectio...

Dear Forum,
As a newbee I thought I would ask the masses. I have a black home hub 2. It is hard wired to a number of PC's in the house, plus it also provides a wireless connection reliably most of the time. Occationally, every day/other day it refuses to provide a reliable IP address. My wireless is set as follows:-
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Hi
Had BT Infinity Home Hub 4 installed 2 months ago. Recently we had a problem with our phone -no ring and no dial tone. My wife contacted BT about this and was advised to remove the filter and plug the phone into that socket. She did this and the phone and internet are working fine.
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Regular disconnection from my Home Hub 2.0 on Infi...

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Hi All
Im getting a problem at the moment with my Home Hub 3, when configuring the router setup within WHS i get an port forwarding error.
Now I've set Rules up for ports 80, 443, and 4125 to go to my server. I've also placed the server in the DMZ still no joy, currently all AV and Firewall has been disabled to!
Used http://www.canyouseeme.org/ and I can see ports 80 and 443 work but 4125 doesn't.
After trawling through random posts does anyone have an answer to how to correctly configure a HH3 or Do I need to change to a Business Hub, which was mentioned in another thread?
Thanks
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If BT used this forum to reply to problems/issues etc it would no longer be a site for BT USERS to talk to each other. BT does say that you can read advice usually good if you access this forum for help . But unless taken up by a Moderator this advice isnt "official" in the sense that BT agrees with every word. So in reality its "unofficial" but still mainly GOOD advice. Can you imagine if it was an site for BT personel to answer the public? it would crash from the many postings and it would be a 24/7 job for official BT employees. And dont blame BT many other large companies are VERY hard to contact DIRECTLY. Try Microsoft they direct you to --LOG ME IN- in India where after an hour of conversation the operator says -SURE!!! WE can help you ---and that will be £150 -PLEASE. Try contacting Yahoo direct . No chance Many other big companies Wordwide do the same.

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Hi steve,
As nobody else has posted I've decided to step in with a bit of advice, limited though it may be on Mac's
You can map your network drive to the Mac as well as your PC; I don't think there's a specific file format you need to have your hard drive formatted to although I've read reports of Mac's having problems with NTFS - FAT32 apparently works fine. The link below should help you map the drive to your Mac - as far as I'm aware, the IP address assigned to the USB slot on the Homehub is 192.168.1.253, so enter this when prompted for an address/location.
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Binned BT and want to use Time Capsule instead of BT Home Hub

This is my first question so please be gentle with me and forgive any errors!
After a truly horrendous experience with BT (22 calls to them in two weeks to resolve broadband speed of 0.4 mbps and no that's not a typo) I've changed ISP.
I already had a Time Capsule which previously I've used only as back up facility. Now I have a separate cable modem and want to use the Time Capsule as a router. The cable modem is plugged in to the phone line (with a filter) and there's an ethernet cable connecting it to the Time Capsule.
I thought I could bin my hated BT Home Hub, but the minute I unplug it, the set up doesn't work.
So it would seem that my Mac is talking to the Home Hub, that's talking to the TC and that's how I'm getting onto the net. I'm at a loss what I need to do to be able to throw the Home Hub in a skip.
Would greatly appreciate any advice as this is frying my tiny brain!
Thanks in advance.
Macbook Pro, iPad 2, iPhone 4, Time Capsule

There are some issues here.. if your modem is plugged into the phone line it is adsl not cable modem..
The TC is not a modem.. it is a router.. you still need a modem to provide connection. Ask your new ISP for what their preferred modem is.. In the UK most ISP use PPPoA method of authenticaiton.. The TC cannot handle that.. they only offer dhcp to an existing router or PPPoE. That means the TC needs to be bridged. If the BT home hub is now running fast though, a new modem is not going to make the connection go faster.

BT Broadband with non BT Home Hub

As of yesterday, or maybe even the night before, our broadband (and BT vision) which has been working perfectly for months, no longer works with a Thomson TG585 router. I have a friend with the same setup and they also now have the same problem. Using the normal BT home hub, works fine, so I know there is nothing wrong with the connection itself.
Have BT done anything to their network to stop non BT routers connecting to it? Or added passwords etc to the ADSL authentication as there has never needed to be one.
I know the username in the ADSL should be set to [email protected] with a blank password, and the router gets an IP address, but there is no connection going through. Pinging google DNS 8.8.8.8 doesn't work either, so I know it isn't a DNS issue.

Bt website say on this issue"............Sorry, we can't provide support for equipment you've bought from other suppliers. If you are having problems with equipment purchased from another supplier, please consult the manual or user guide supplied with the equipment or contact the vendor for advice. Hints on configuring a non-BT router You need to ensure that your router is configured to work on ADSL lines in the UK. Within your router's settings you will need to input a telephone number or VPI/VCI standard. In both cases you should check that this is set to 0,38. Most ADSL routers supplied for sale in the UK will be pre-set to this. You also require your BT Broadband username. This was given to you at the time you orderd broadband and is usually made up of [email protected] where 'your' equals your first name and 'name' equals your surname, for example [email protected] BT Broadband does not require that you enter a password to connect, but some routers won't connect to the Internet without a password. If this is the case, enter the word BT....... I have similar issue to solve tomorrow as I just bought a draytek 2710 to replace my hh3. Bob

Multicast - Home Hub Wireless?

Is it possible to enable the home hub to send multicast signals over its wireless network?
My hub was installed upstairs and my YouView box is downstairs, so a cable is out of the question. I have my YouView box connected to the wireless network through a wireless adapter that supports multicast I just didn't realise that the homehub did not! (I did think at the time of ordering that it was odd they didn't reccomend a wireless adapter but they didn't advice agaisnt it either!)
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If you mean replacing the single cable (or short cables and powerline adapters) connection between the HomeHub and the BTTV box with a wireless bridge then you wouldn't need to support more than two multicast streams at any time.
The BTTV box can only tune into a maximum of two streams at the same time (watch/record or record/record). The BT local multicast system is only providing to your house the one or two streams that you are currently tuned into. That is why it only needs a minimum spec of around 15Mbps (to cater for two simultaneous HD channels), and yet can in theory offer the viewer a choice from several hundred channels. The customer having Infinity guarantees this minimum spec is met.
Back to the question of whether you can use a wireless connection between the HomeHub and BTTV box? The HomeHub won't send the multicast output over it's in-built wireless as far as I know, so I think you would need to use wireless dongles at both ends that mimic a hard-wired ethernet connection. I see no reason why this wouldn't work in theory as long as the signal was stable and fast enough. It would need to avoid interference from the normal wireless signal from the HomeHub if that wasn't turned off.

Would a wireless bridge work with the Home Hub 5?

Hi there. I am wondering if I might avail myself of the community's advice and wisdom. I'm due to have Infinity 2 installed in a week or two, but I have a few concerns about how to get things working properly. Mainly I am wondering how on earth to connect my PC to it, when they won't be on the same floor in the house. The worrying over this almost has me rethinking the wisdom of changing from my old ISP of twelve years.
The Home Hub 5 will be installed downstairs at the master socket (or whatever that thing is called), but the family PC (currently wired to a Netgear DGT2200 'N' modem/router) is upstairs. I can't run wires all over the house (so sayeth the wife) so I am a bit stuck thinking of a solution that is workable. My neighbour had his Master Socket moved (I think) to solve a similar issue, but I'd prefer not to (if the engineers would even offer that) as access to the socket for the study is really restricted by several very full and rather rickety bookshelves.
I was thinking of using a wireless 802.11ac bridge, like the Linksys WUMC710, so I can connect a PC, Xbox360, SkyHD box and Blu player to the network whilst not having to use 4 separate adapters. However that bridge is single band only, (frankly I can't find a dual band AC bridge). Would the 5ghz signal from the Home Hub 5 be strong enough upstairs, bearing in mind it has to go up one floor and through one (admittedly paper thin) wall (the study is nearly directly above where the hub would be positioned)? It would rather defeat the object of switching to FTTC if the only room with a decent connection is the one where I only use ipads, another SkyHD box and very occasionally a laptop. The PC is arguably the one device that I want/need a good connection for work/play.

I'd hoped I was done with wondering what to do on this, but more reading has confused me even further.
1. If I did ask the engineer (likely a contractor I gather) to have the master socket moved upstairs (and he agreed to do it), is it true that the current telephone extension sockets would not longer work unless rewired? Not a deal breaker as I only use one of them for the master unit for my cordless phones.
2. If the engineer either refused to move the Master Socket or I opted not to ask due to the extension socket issue, am I correct in thinking I can pay something like £130 for a BT Engineer to come out to specifically move the Master Socket and rewire the extension sockets? The difference in cost between that and buying good powerline extenders and a switch is not that much (especially if I'd lose less connection speed by doing that). Actually I think a friend of my father's is a BT engineer...I should probably be asking him this.

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