Disabling wireless

A simple enough requirement, you'd think - I wish to disable wireless on the BT Hub, as my computer is permanently connected to it by cable (I have no other wireless devices).
The help page says it's possible (Wireless Configuration under Advanced Setting - simply set wireless enable to 'no'), and in fact I successfully managed to do this just after I installed the hub (the wireless blue light went out as expected).
Today, however, I noticed the blue wireless light back on (I hadn't changed any settings), and the option to disable it (in Advance Settings) is no longer available. I wonder if the upgraded software (it automatically upgraded itself yesterday) has removed the option to disable wireless (and if so, why)? I phoned technical support. They insisted that the default is wireless-enabled and that I can't change it, and that it's always been that way. This contradicts both the help pages and my own experience immediately after installing (not to mention common sense). But they were insistent.
So, I tried something else: Power Save. In theory this seems to do the trick - it turns off wireless, but lets me continue with broadband connection via ethernet cable. Only problem is that you have to schedule it. You can't have it running in Power Save mode all the time. What a pain. In practice it means that even if I schedule Power Save from 04.00 to 03.30, I find that when I turn everything on at the mains in the morning (around 9.00) it's not in Power Save mode. I have to set it to go into Power Save mode at 09.30 (you can't just switch Power Save mode on - you have to schedule it as an event in the future).
Any suggestions? Many thanks in advance.
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You may find that the update has reactivated BTFon. (Customers before a certain date had to opt in to this service but new customers are automatically opted in to BTFon so may not be aware of this).
If you never had BTFon then in theory you still shouldn't have it. You could check if you want by either using a wireless enabled PC and searching for signals or check your status on the BTFon site.
If you are a member of BTFon then you can opt out from their site. It will take upto 48 hours for the request to be carried out. From there the ability to switch the wireless off should come back.
A fix which is a pain if you've set your hub up to how you want it is to do a factory reset thus removing the latest firmware update and putting the wireless turn off ability back into your hub.
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