Home Hub 3 and Apple AirPlay

There is an issue with the Home Hub 3 that prevents a continuous connection with Apple AirPlay. I bought my girlfriend a speaker for her birthday, at which point she was on Orange with a 5 year old wireless router, and the AirPlay worked perfectly. She switched to BT as Orange did not support a VPN connection and now AirPlay continually drops out. By resetting the router the connection returns so based on these two points, and the numerous reports on the internet, the cause is clearly the Home Hub 3.
Has anyone who has experienced this problem actually found a solution other than buying a new router to replace the sub-standard hardware offered by BT?
N.B. I have gone over the other posts on this forum and done a factory reset which then gave me the option to turn off WPS as for some reason this was missing, turned off smart Channel and amended security to WPA only.
Much appreciate any help/advice

Jaylow wrote:
Got one for the speaker when it reconnected after the last reset (about 20mins ago)
Right, see if you get an event each time it reconnects. The DHCP renew issue is a known problem with the HH3.
Also, are there any network configuration setting that you can change on the speaker?
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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