PC loud speaker with bt home hub

We installed the hub some months ago but only yesterday did I try the loud speaker for watching something on iplayer. There was just a very loud hum, moving the hub away helped the hum but still no other sound. Any suggestions and thanks in advance.

....... 'you hum it son, I'll play it' (circa 1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgzEBLa3PPk
For the OP, as stated above, check your sound settings/drivers, also check your speaker/amp/sub-woofer cable connections to and from your PC
I had a similar problem as you (a hum) a few days ago when Infinity was installed.
My sub-woofer, about 10years old, is placed on a little shelf under my PC desk. It has sat next to my both my old Netgear routers for years, with no problem.
When the high speed modem and Home Hub were installed in the same place as the Netgear, I was getting a slight hum out of the speaker, not much, but just about enough to annoy you once you hear it. Once you hear it, you can't stop concentrating on it, which makes it appear worse than it really is.
Anyway, I could have moved the sub-woofer/amp somewhere away from the modems, concluding that the electromagnet screening was either poor in the modem(s), or poor in the sub-woofer/amp. That may have fixed it, or I could have been very unlucky to find out that it was the speaker cables that were unscreened or poorly screened.
So I took a risk, and decided to replace my speaker/sub-woofer setup, as the whole caboodle is a bit aged now (like me).
Yesterday, I popped over to my Curry's superstore, and purchased a reasonably nice little Sony Active Speaker System. Installed that in the same place, and they work and sound great to me. More modern, better screening I suppose. I know that it a bit of a drastic way to go about things ........ but I do LIKE new gadgets
I bought this, £10 off the original price , Sony SRS-D21 Multi Channel PC Speaker System.
http://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/sony-srs-d21-multi-channel-pc-speaker-system-00778349-pdt.html
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