Home hub 5 access controls

The access controls in the HH5 allow restrictions on a time basis - is there any way of setting different time limits on different days? Eg I want to restrict access on school days but be less constrained during the weekend. I have had other routers in the past that allow me to do this but HH5 does not appear to be as flexible. Comments appreciated.

If you are happy to apply restrictions to all devices, so they cannot access sites that would interfere with homework, then the new BT parental controls may be a better option.
You can set the time period when these restrictions would apply.
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/hub/c/346,6679
These are network based, so all devices including phones and tablets will be affected.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Home Hub 3 Access Control not working

Not sure if anyone can help with this, but here goes!
I have access control enabled on my HomeHub 3 which should stop my daughter from using the Internet between 9:00pm and 3:00pm - it seems to be working in as much as she isn't able to access the internet from her laptop from the time she gets up until 3:00pm, but it doesn't stop her using the internet at 9:00pm, in fact she can still quite happily access the internet up until 10:30 or even later.
I have tried restarting the hub, switching access control off and back on and delting and re-instating the device block but none of these seem to work properly, so any advice would be gratefully received.
I'm also having problems with wireless connectivity, but I've put that in a different post as I think it probably needs different expertise

It could be because the time on the hub is an hour slow because it has not updated to BST. This is a known problem which BT were going to sort out within a few days! See here and elsewhere in these forums: http://community.bt.com/t5/Other-BB-Queries/Clocks-Forward/td-p/448429.
Pending resolution of the problem, putting the Access Control times back an hour might do it. (It has been reported that the alternative of setting the time manually can result in the hub not keeping time very well.)
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Using multiple Home Hubs as access points

I have a BT Infinity connection using a Home Hub 5, however the signal is poor or non existant in parts of my house. I have Cat5e wired to some of the rooms around my house, so could I connect 1 or 2 additional Home Hub 5s to extend/improve the signal? If this is possible is it easy to configure?
Thanks

These pages may help.
http://forumhelp.dyndns.info/wireless/hh3link.html
http://www.filesaveas.com/jarviser/repeaterhubswired.html
Or BT have their own devices.
http://www.shop.bt.com/learn-more/bt-branded-products-and-services/bt-connectivity-devices-12466.htm...
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Using btinternet home hub to access sky+ anytime -...

Newbie poster here I have bought a Tenda W150 wireless router to connect my sky+ HD box to my old school home hub 1.0 or even 1.5. I get a service connection fail which according t the sky forum can be cleared by changing the home hub multiplexing setting to LLC. Can someone tell me how I do that please? Ta Tel

You cannot change any settings like that within the BT home hub, it is locked down.
There are people on this forum using Sky Anytime without problems, if you do a forum search, especially on the Infinity forum.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Best parent controls for iPads and iMac running on BT Home Hub

Hi,
Despite the great sounds coming from the big ISPs about parental controls, they're determined to make a really simple concept absolutely impossible.
Firstly, I'm not trying to lock-down my family's access to the net, but I have two boys aged around ten, and being boys they're inquisitive, so are probably getting closer to stumbling across some seriously dodgy content... And I want to try to prevent that... It should not be hard. If I could limit the times they were online, just if browsing gets out of hand (they're kids remember) that would be a handy option as well.
So on to the technical details... We have a standard BT broadband account that comes into a new BT Home Hub. This is currently our WiFi point. We run a laptop, two ipads, iphones and an ipod touch on Wifi, and have a desktop ethernet'd to the Home Hub. BT offer a downlaodable Family Protection package that allows user accounts to be configured, but this does not appear to work on an iPad or Touch.
Very shortly, we're about to retire the PCs from family life and install an iMac. So we're getting into a properly Mac environment. I was also considering installing a Time Capsule for back-ups and had considered stringing this in series on the Home Hub, then networking all of the Apple devices off of the Time Capsule.
Ideally, the controls would be at a us level, or at least by device. I've come across some App options, but this seems like an unecessary layer of proprietary complexity.
So how Do we deploy parental controls? The simplest option, that BT have failed to realise, would be a network solution that filters everything coming into the house and stops it before it even hits the Home Hub - but that doesn't appear to be an option.
So what options do we have? Any ideas? I had heard suggestions that I could manage user control via the Time Capsule, but that's proving hard to confirm.
Happy to supply any further information to help with this query.
In summary, how do I stop **** getting onto my boys' iPads/Touchs... Should be simple????
Cheers, Mombee.

Sorry, but the Apple routers do have any type of parental controls on them.
If you have not already done so, you might want to take a look at the parental control options offered by OpenDNS.
OpenDNS Parental Control ...

Restricting Wireless Access using BT Home Hub

Hi
I am trying to set up my BT home hub so that my daughter can only have limited access (fed up with her being on FB 24/7!)
I thought I had done by using the set up access mode, but I have a feeling that this is not working all the time. Has any one else managed to successfully do this?
Thank you for reading and would be grateful of any advice as this is driving us to the brink!

Did you follow the intructions on this site?
http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/11364/~/what-is-bt-access-control-and-how-do-i-set-it...
Are you sure that she is not simply bypassing it via the hub manager?
You could change the hub manager password.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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How to use Home Hub 3 as a 2nd router(access point...

Hi guys hope you can help; I am trying to add my Home Hub 3 as a 2nd router (ie an access point) to my home network and struggling.
What am I trying to achieve.
I have a fully functioning home network which is working great but the wireless range does not extend to the room above my garage, some distance away from the main house. I currently service it with an Ethernet link from my E4200 router, via the mains wiring, to link to a PS3 there. But I want to extend this to have a wireless network in the remote room so I can link multiple devices - rather than spend more money, deploying a 2nd router which I already have is preferable.
What have I got.
I have a Linksys E4200 router (nice piece of kit) attached to my ADSL line via a Belkin N1 wireless modem-router set to “modem only” mode (I was using a DSL modem until yesterday but that went AWOL and digging out the Belkin router I saw that it had a modem only function – and it/they worked first time )
All of my gear in the house is attached wirelessly to the E4200 which is delivering circa 11.5mbps from a maximum of 12.5mbps for the line measured by BT onsite. So all is fine there.
What have I done to try and use the HH3
Linked an Ethernet cable between one of the Ethernet ports on the E4200 to a mains plug.
Linked an Ethernet cable from a mains plug to one of the Ethernet ports on the HH3 router.
Ie as the PS3 was linked.
3. Switched on the HH3 router: the power light is solid blue, the wireless light is solid blue, the broadband light is off
4. Connected my laptop to the HH3 network and loading up a web page on IE9 displays a web page from bthomehub.home/etc etc with title BT Home Hub and a message “Can’t connect to Broadband”. It is the start of a self- diagnostic routine. Answering all the questions I eventually get a Home Hub Administrative Home Page displayed.
Is there a quicker way of getting to this admin page??
5. I switched off DHCP
I changed the IP address from 192.168.1.254 to 192.168.1.200 as this seems to be what the other threads on this subject did.
When I went to apply the change a message came up telling me that I might not be able to access the HH3. I ploughed on disregarding this and needless to say I could not then access the HH3 via the web interface and trying to access a web site nothing happened.
6. I did a hardware reset on the HH3
7. Going through the motions again, when I got to the admin pages again, I switched off DHCP and this time left the IP address alone, ie 192.168.1.254.
When I went to apply this I got the message
“After changing these settings you will need to renew the IP address of all devices connecting to your BT Home Hub. Please follow the instructions provided with your devices.”
I applied the change – but have not yet done any fooling around with IP addresses on my laptop because I don’t want to start mucking around with my laptop
I then tried to access a website, and failed, but on this occasion rather than nothing happening, the Home Hub website came up again displaying the error message page.
And that is where I stand. All looks so easy when reading other threads on this and other forums but it is not working for me.
Any help greatly appreciated.
The IP settings on the E4200 are
IP 192.168.1.1
Range 192.168.1.100 to 192.168.1.149
Also connection type on the E4200 is POE not POA – as far as I recall that is what it needed to be to connect to the DSL modem and work.

Thanks for the speedy reply!
I have actually came across this page before - I seem to hit a snag when I connect the repeater hub (my HH3). As outlined, I have at all times kept the repeater hub connected via ehternet into one of the regular LAN ports to my main HH5.
But when I connect my laptop to the repeat hub (HH3), I am actually connected to the internet somehow (I assuem using the HH5 network) but under my network connections it says I am connected to the HH3. As a result, when I go to the homehub settings page 192.168.1.254, it brings me to the main HH5 settings page and not the repeater HH3.
According to the instructions it says I should "Ignore the not connected page", but I am connected and I cant seem to alter any of the settings on my HH3 while it is connected to the HH5.
Any other pointers?
Thanks!

No Internet access BT Home Hub 5

I have a problem that has just occurred over the last 3 days. My computers, BT vision box, sky box and NAS connected to my home hub 5 via ethernet or powerline have no Internet access, they will at times see the NAS, although currently they do not. Occasionally they will get Internet access via wifi. All my other devices, smart phones and tablets are fine, via either 2.4ghz band or 5ghz band. No problems here.
On occasion attempting to access a webpage on wired devices I get a message that there has been a dns server error. Until 3 days ago everything worked fine since the purchase of the hub 5 4 months ago. I have so far tried:
1. Restarting the hub
2. Resetting the hub.
Neither have worked.
Any help appreciated.
Steve.

Hi, thanks for the post. I've just tried to follow the instructions you've provided and on both my windows 7 and 8.1 machines the only option offered is to manage wireless connections. Is this unique to Windows 7 and 8? I don't seem to have the option to manage wired connections?
I've lost wired links to my Sky box and other devices again. Wireless remains solid...
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Accessing Home Hub 4 with windows 8.1 and Internet...

Hello
I can no longer access my home hub manager wirelessly running windows 8.1 and Internet Explorer 11 from my toshiba laptop by either typing in the IP address or by http://bthomehub.home/. I can still access it by either method from a laptop running windows XP. I have Infinity and Home Hub 4a. This problem has arose recently and I did upgrade from windows 8 last week so could this be the problem. Has anyone any suggestions?
Regards
Adrian
Solved!
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Seems to be a Network Adapter problem for most people, and usually updating the driver works.
If you have just installed 8.1/8.1 pro, you will typically need to install your motherboard and other driver software. After you have done this, most people can access the internet, but have problems with the bt hub ip/url access link.
To update the Network Adapter(s) use the following steps:
1. search for Device Manager, and open it up
2. Select/expand Network adapters, and the adapter(s) on your machine should show up.
3. Right click on the adapter(s) that appear and select 'Update Driver Software'
4. It should come up with 2 options - select 'Browse my computer for driver software'
5. The next screen should come up with the default location for your machine, so just click the next button on the bottom right of this window.
6. Your network adapter(s) will appear, and just select 'update driver software' and the latest version will be installed.
7. That should fix most problems right away - if not, your machine (including hub and router) may need switched off and back on.
I can't guarantee it will fix every problem, but the most common problem seems to be that the latest network adapter drivers needs a manual update after installing 8.1/8.1 pro, even after you install your motherboard / ethernet drivers.
If you still experience problems accessing bt hub or internet, you can try this additional step:
1. On your keyboard press Start + X keys (or microsoft logo key + X)
2. This should open up system options dialogue box at the bottom left of your screen.
3. Select Command Prompt (Admin) option.
4. In command screen (old DOS screen) type the following: ipconfig /release (there is a space between config and /)
5. This will release your ip address back into the network and cut your connection (don't worry)
6. Whilst still in command screen, flush the dns cache - type: ipconfig /flushdns (space here again also)
7. type exit to get out of command screen.
8. Switch off your pc, and switch it off at the wall, also switch off router & bthub.
9. Wait a few mins before flicking switches back on at the wall only - dont switch on pc yet - wait a min or so then switch on pc.
10. You may need to run through the updating network adapter drivers again from the steps at the top - although this should not be needed.

Home hub 3 as second router (access point) - anyon...

Hi all, I have my infinty connection from the modem to a netgear wndr4500 cable router. I am trying to get a better signal upstairs but using the home hub 3 as a secondary router / wifi point (connected to the netgear with homeplugs). I have done all the necessary changes such as disabling dhcp on the hh3 and changing its ip address to one on the same network as the netgear but outside of its dhcp range (192.168.1.254). uPnP is enabled on both routers. I can log into the settings page on the hh3 and it even tells me the list of devices on the network in its network diagram (all connected via the netgear). I can connect the hh3 wirelessly but cannot reach the Internet. Anyone help me out? Edit: since typing this I cannot connect to the hh3 wirelessly anymore as it will not assign an ip address. Oh and Ethernet cable is LAN port to LAN port.

Thanks Keith for the guide.
Once I printed it, I just walked myself through and it appears to have worked! This morning I had a few concerns about accessing a network storage area connected to the main hub, from the slave, but my concerns were unfounded. I found the same with the printer. Without the slaved access, the printer's wifi connectivity throughout the house was patchy. Connected to the slave, it seems back to a solid thing again.
Now just the Sure Signal to sort out. Does anyone have experience with Sure Signals and this sort of arrangement? I acutally think the issue with that is the HH5, rather than the master/slave arrangement.

Accessing Home Hub Manager

Hi there
is there a way that I can access the home hub manager when the hub itself is in powersave?
thanks

DinoZoff wrote:
I'm having problems accessing the home hub manager, i have tried all my shortcuts and using 192.168.1.254, all i'm getting is an error message saying no data.
Any help on this will be greatly appreciated.
Many browsers will try to interpret that as a web host name.
Use this link instead http://192.168.1.254
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Can I add additional link to "Other links" section of TFS web access home hub page

Hi,
Is it possible to add additional links to Other link section of TFS web access home hub page?
Thanks in advance,
Hazeq.

>Do you see any issues if I modify this page? What will happen when TFS updates happens, there are no issue in these scenarios? Currently
I have TFS 2013 with update 4.
I didn't see any issue. but when you need to upgrade your tfs, your website also need to be upgrade.
so I think the code you made will disappear.
>Can I also use Jquery over here? How should I add jquery library reference?
sure, you can do everything you want with jquery. just copy it into the sub-folder and reference it.
!!!Backup your website before you update the code.

Is double clicking home button to access music controls the best ways?

Currently user need to double click the home button to access music control, while the phone is locked.
I understand now since users r familiar with iphone controls this interaction is not bad to have but not the best interaction type.
Instead the clock area could be swappable to music controls & mayb even weather.
cheers

You can also go to settings / music

Connect Netgear access point to Home Hub?

Before I switched to using a Home Hub 2, I was using a Netgear router/modem (DG834G).
And I also had a Netgear WPN802 access point connected to the DG834G router/modem (via ethernet cable), and this enabled me to connect to internet using wifi from another location in my house. Just seemed to work.
But I can't seem to get this to work with the Home Hub. When the access point is plugged in to the Home Hub, it doesn't seem to show up in the Devices part of the Home Hub, and I can't connect to the access point via its default IP address (192.168.0.231). I can't see anything in the Home Hub to configure to make this work. On the access point, the ethernet light is lit, which suggests that it can "see" something on the other end of the cable (and the light goes out when I unplug the other end from the Home Hub).
Any hints?
Thanks.

You will need to change the default IP address of the Netgear WPN802 so that it is in the same subnet as the home hub.
The full details on how to do this are here http://kbserver.netgear.com/pdf/wpn_802_ref_manual.pdf
Look at page 23 and change the IP address in the Basic settings.
You could change it to 192.168.1.231 if you wish. It would still not show on the home hub because it is manually assigned. But it should work fine.
I have an additional Belkin wireless access point on my hub, which uses the address 192.168.1.200, and that works fine.
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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HT1349 my wifes ipad has suddenly stopped searching for internet hubs and when trying to access our home hub it says unable to access ?

My wifes ipad has suddenly stopped searrching for wifi connections and when our home hub is found it says unable to access ? It was working properly the other day ?

Have you tried rebooting the Hub? Unplug it from power for about 30 seconds and plug it back in again.

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