BT home hub 2.0 buffalo linkstation

Hi
Just after some advice as i think my hub might be faulty. I have a buffalo link station Nas device. When tranfering large files to it over 3 gb the hub resets. It does this over lan and wireless. In all other aspects the hub behaves fine. It is only when transferring large files. It doesnt do it everytime but i would say about 90%. Any ideas?
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I will draw a diagram, as its easier.
All normal network traffic passes through the Ethernet switches. The home hub provides the Internet gateway only, so it does not get clogged up carrying heavy network traffic, which can carry on even if the hub is disconnected.
I use static IP adresses for all devices that remain within the home network.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
BT Broadband customers - help with broadband, WiFi, networking, e-mail and phones.

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Make sure the IP ranges match. I can't remember exactly how i done mine but i think i had my buffalo NAS set to a static IP outside the HH3 DHCP range. A factory defaults reset fixed this.
I'm sorry the info ais a little vague and maybe not accurate but the point being my buffalo linkstation did eventually work properly with the HH3 without any other equipment with a bit of fiddling.
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Best regards Dennis

The other option would be to change the IP and subnet of the home hub 4, so it matches your old router.
There are some instructions on this page, and I assume the HH4 is similar.
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/9011/~/how-do-i-change-the-dhcp-settings-of-the-bt-ho...
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Gtrcoop007 wrote:
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Welcome to this forum. This is a BT domestic customer to customer help forum, any messages posted here do not go to BT.
Its possible one of the forum members may be able to help you if its a general enquiry.
You do have the alternative of using your own router, there are plenty of cheap cable routers available.
If you only have one PC connected, then you can connect it directly to the modem, by setting up a PPPoE network connection type.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Regular disconnection from my Home Hub 2.0 on Infi...

For the last year I've been getting regularly disconnected on the wireless from my Home Hub 2.0 router on Infinity - and have to reset to get the connection back (this happens to all phones and laptops connected) - this is despite the blue lights remaining 'on' on the hub. It's now getting more and more frequent (5 times per day) - making skype calling a challenge. Also the line speed degrades and a reset brings this back up. I contacted the help line a few months ago but failed to fully resolve this. In my mind the home hub is faulty and I need a new one - but seems v difficult to get that to actually happen.
I'm on the verge of cancelling and going to another provider now I'm out of contract - any advice?

From the memory, (which is not very good at the best of times), the Home Hub 2 is not infinity compatible. The router needs to be able to support PPoE on a WAN port. The HH2 does not have a WAN port.
Other than that there are lots of threads on here re: unreliable wireless connections. Too many to list all the definitive suggestions. A search should help.
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Many on here have replaced or not even used the supplied router. As long as the replacement supports PPoE and has a WAN port, (i.e. Cable router), you should be OK. There as also a growing number of routers that are VDSL capable so it may be a consideration to replace the modem as well. With regards to router replacement this thread may be of interest.
http://community.bt.com/t5/BT-Infinity/List-of-Routers-to-replace-Home-Hub-3/m-p/298203/highlight/tr...
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Issues with Home Hub 3 Wireless. And lousy teleph...

I don't know if this forum is moderated or followed by BT support staff, but I sure hope so.
After coming from Virgn Media for my BB to BT infinity (Awesome speeds btw!) I'm pleased with the connection and, up until today, the support. I now have issues with my Wireless devices on the HH3.
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I have the Open reach modem connected to the home hub. I then have the 1Gbps ethernet port from the home hub that is connected to a 1Gbps 5 Port switch that connects my wired network together (Consisting of my Xbox, Networked Printer and my Desktop PC). Wireless serves 2 Laptops, an Xperia U phone, and a G5 Ipod touch (not all mine, I have a flat mate).
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Now, as my order was not completed until yesterday, techincal support couldn't/wouldn't help until today. Yesterday, however, I spent hours trying to solve my issues and got as far semi-solving the problem. I managed to get everything working nicely together when Wireless N is disabled and only a/b/g is enabled. Great, but a main selling point is the Wireless N and I want to use this.
So, today I phoned technical support. I should also note here, and I made this perfectly clear with support, that when the WiFi starts to missbehave, the wired network still works perfectly and I have no issues with internet connectivity with any wired devices. So, clearly this is not a line fault - it's on this side, aka, the router WiFi side where the problem resides. Support decided to do a line test anyway - and of course it got the all clear. He then asked me to reset the router (Yey, again after I had done it plenty of times before, only this time I had customised the SSID and the LAN IP addresses and now they need done again). He then went on to state that I should receive an e-mail with instructions on what to do next, and if they are still issues to reply to a text message that will be sent.
Duly, an email arrived. It began with "Sorry you had to call us today about your wireless disconnecting. We’re pleased we could help you get it working again." and continued on with with this theme. No, my problem is not resolved! I phoned back, this time advising me to change channels, and check individual devices to see if they're any conflicts - I did this pretty quickly and disabled and re-enabled WiFi on my Laptop, phone, ipod and still to no avail.
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Could this be a bad HH3 or frimware issue? Can someone suggest something or highlight something that I've perhaps overlooked or missed?

This is only a customer to custome help forum.
This link may help, although some of the things you may have already tried.
Wireless can prove quite unreliable, and an separate wireless access point can help.
Wireless connection problems
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Wifi connection issues with Home Hub 5

Hi can any body help because I am starting to get very frustrated with the Home Hub 5 and it's wireless connection.
infinity 2 was installed at my house in the beginning of September, everything worked Ok for three weeks then for no apparent reason the hub kicked out all of my wireless devices (phones, kids iPods, tablets etc) at 6:45 one morning. When I got home from work I rang BT and was told to perform a Pin reset. This seemed to work but less tham 48 hours later at exactly the same time in the morning the hub kicked out all of my devices again, this time I just pressed the restart button on the top of the hub and everything reconnected but the Wifi range within my house had dropped. A few days later the hub kicked all my devices out again (each time it has done this the light on the hub has remained blue showing it is supposedly working OK)
One evening this week the hub of its own accord cycled through all the colours of lights indicating problems and that it was restarting. Today at 10:15 the hub kicked all my Wifi devices out again. I have contacted BT every time this has happened and told them about the poor range of the Wifi signal.
I do not want to be restarting/resetting my Hub every couple of weeks i need a permanent solution.
One of the reasons I switched from TalkTalk to BT when fibre became available was the fact that the Home Hub 5 was supposed to be the best provided router by any of the networks, being the only one that is an AC class router. The thing costs £130 if you want to by one. Quite frankly the £60 TP-Link dual band router I bought when I was with TalkTalk had a better range and was more stable. I would switch back to that if I knew BT's router settings (but they like to keep that a secret)
I really am beginning to regret switching from TalkTalk. Please someone restore my faith in BT.
Sorry for the lengthy rant but I hope you can understand why I've ranted for so long.
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Hi imjolly
Sorry its taken a while to reply to your post.
I wanted to try BT's latest attempt at a solution before i tried your idea.
Since your reply the Home Hub 5 has dropped the Wifi connection to my devices another three times.
The second time less than 30hours after BT's so called fix, which was to make sure the 5Ghz channel was not syncing with the 2.4Ghz channel. Tonight it went again and BT's response was to take the router out of smart channel selection and manually select channel 9,6 or 11 on 2.4Ghz and 36,40,44 or 48 on 5Ghz. Well I havent even bothered with that, if the prats at BT would look at their records they would see they have already suggested that.
This HH5 is the most unreliable piece of garbage i have ever had the misfortune to use. WHY OH WHY did I leave TalkTalk
I have tonight tried your solution. Fingers crossed that this works.
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Issues with Gagabit connection on BT Home Hub 3.0

I did post this is the BB Other Forum, but got no reply, maybe someone can answer it in this one.
I have just received a BT Home Hub 3.0 to replace my old HH 1.0
I have connected the hub up and 'assumed' that if I plug port 4 into my existing gigabit home network everything would work simple. However this is not the case.
My existing ;working' home network has the following
1 x PC
1 x Laptop
1 x N.A.S
These are all connected by a 5 port Netgear Switch (GS605) they all have the yellow light to say they are at gigabit speed.
When I plug the HH 3.0 into the swtch, the light only comes up as orange (100mps). I have tried changing cables, but still the same result.
However, if I connect the PC directly to the HH 3.0 then my Local Area Connection says it is connected at 1.0Gbps.
When connected to the switch, my connection through the HH 3.0 is very slow, but when connected directly to the HH 3.0 it is running at speeds I previously had.
I have disconnected all items from the switch, powered down the HH 3.0 and connected it on its own. The yellow (1Gbps) light flashes for a while and then changes to orange.
Can anyone advise?
Regards
Trevor

I have tired connecting just the HH 3.0 to the Netgear Switch with cables that I know work at 1 Gbps and into all the ports. Resetting the HH 3.0 on several occasions.
Each time the light flashed yellow and then turned to orange. I know the switch works as I have green lights when known Gbps items are connected, eg, PC, Laptop and NAS.
When I connect my PC directly to the HH 3.0 in the Gbps my network connection comes up as 1 Gbps.
It is just when I connect the HH to the switch.
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PC connected at 1000 Mbps (directly to the Gbps on the home hub)
BT Vision connected at 100 Mbps (directly to port 1 on the home hub)
Laptop connected at 100 Mbps (connected to the switch) but is showing as 1 Gbps on the switch.
NAS connected at 100 Mbps (connected to the switch) but is showing as 1 Gbps on the switch.
Any further ideas?
Regards
Trevor

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Hi
I have a pc and a laptop connected wirelessly to homehub 3. connection is fine having swapped the hub for a new one.
The problem I have now is that when i go into hh manager on the laptop, I cannot enter a password to get to settings.
I get admin as user and cursor won't work in password panel.
On the pc it works fine. It's no biggy as I can acess settings on the pc but anyone know why it is happening?
This is the screen I get. Different to the usual one.
To prevent unauthorised access, your BT Home Hub's settings are protected by a password. To change the settings in your BT Hub Manager, you'll need to enter your admin password, then click the 'OK' button on this page. Please remember the password is case sensitive.
Username:
admin
Password:
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somniac wrote:snipped
connection is fine having swapped the hub for a new one. The problem I have now is that when i go into hh manager on the laptop, I cannot enter a password to get to settings.
Swapped from a what version hub? It does sound like you may of been using a v1 or v1.5 hub prior to using the hub3
What happens if you go to saved passwords on your laptop, locate the 'admin' one, make a note of it just in case and delete it. Does this allow you to access the hub manager now?
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