Home Hub 5 - Connection dropping several times dur...

Hoping someone wiser than me in matters of broadband can help!
Like others here since having BT Infinity installed in December, I have been plagued with connection problems. We did have an engineer out in Feb who replaced the main socket and it was marginally better. In the last 6 weeks my connection has been dropping several times a day and it's getting very annoying. THere isn't a problem with speed, etc when it's working but it just keeps dropping. Here's the data from the helpdesk page on my home hub manager. Have just noticed that the last update of the firmware was 20/01/15 so am wondering if this is problem as I know there was an update being rolled out back in February for the 5A hub?
Any advice as to how to facilitate that? I have just reset the router but nothing seems to have changed
1. Product name:
BT Home Hub
2. Serial number:
+068543+NQ43144404
3. Firmware version:
Software version 4.7.5.1.83.8.204 (Type A) Last updated 20/01/15
4. Board version:
BT Hub 5A
5. DSL uptime:
0 days, 00:27:36
6. Data rate:
9995 / 39993
7. Maximum data rate:
16662 / 50220
8. Noise margin:
10.0 / 9.5
9. Line attenuation:
22.6 / 18.7
10. Signal attenuation:
22.8 / 20.2
11. Data sent/received:
2.4 GB / 9.4 GB
12. Broadband username:
[email protected]
13. BT Wi-fi:
Yes
14. 2.4 GHz Wireless network/SSID:
BTHub5-6QTN
15. 2.4 GHz Wireless connections:
Enabled (802.11 b/g/n (up to 144 Mb/s))
16. 2.4 GHz Wireless security:
WPA2
17. 2.4 GHz Wireless channel:
Automatic (Smart Wireless)
18. 5 GHz Wireless network/SSID:
BTHub5-6QTN
19. 5 GHz Wireless connections:
Enabled (802.11 a/n/ac (up to 1300 Mb/s))
20. 5 GHz Wireless security:
WPA2
21. 5 GHz Wireless channel:
Automatic (Smart Wireless)
22. Firewall:
Default
23. MAC Address:
c8:91:f9:4b:02:d0
24. Modulation:
G.993.2 Annex B
25. Software variant:
AA
26. Boot loader:
1.0.0
Thanks in anticipation !

I would turn off smart setup http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44328/~/switching-smart-setup-on-and-off-on-the-bt-ho...
I would then split the networks http://bt.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/44798/related/1
I would then change the lease time in the hub from 1 day to 21 days
see if that helps
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