Home Hub 4 keeps dropping out

I received my home hub 4 in October 2013 but after numerous calls to the BT Helpdesk I have now had to revert back to my home hub 2 to get a decent reliable signal Im currently paying for BT infinity unlimited but I'm seriously thinking and going to sky they seem to a more reliable product. I've phoned the BT Helpdesk and they are equally useless being on hold for 45 minutes and being transferred to be put on hold for a further 20 minutes with no resolution to the issues I've reported

Hi Dogandnophone,
I'm sorry that you're having problems with your BT home hub dropping out. Have you tried to manually change the wireless channel? Check out this link for help with this and let me know if it works.
Thanks
Neil
BTCare Community Mod
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    To sum it up, this process 1) Wipes your device and the garbage causing your problems, 2) Loads a clean and bug-free version of IOS 8 to your device, and 3) restores your apps and data so that it looks just like it did before the wipe, with the exception that it works now!  :-)
    Note also that by following this process you don't have to go through the painful and laborious process of reloading all of your apps, data and/or settings. iCloud takes care of all of that for you.

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