Time Capsule and BT Home Hub compatibility

Hi
I would be very grateful for your help.
I have a BT Home Hub (brand new) connected via ethernet cable to my Time Capsule (gen 4).  I get the combination to work together OK (without switching off the BT Home Hub wireless), and I have the option of using the BT Home Hub wireless network too.  I notice that the Time Capsule network is much less consistent than the direct BT Home Hub one.  I also see that the BT Home Hub seems to have a much better coverage of the rooms in our house thean the Time Capsule network.
Is there some sort of conflict going on here?  Should I permanently switch off the wireless router function on the BT Home Hub?
If I do straight speed checks - most of the time they both seem to perform similarly, yet every now and then - perhaps 3x weekly, the Time Capsule one just goes very slow or stops all together.
I was hoping the Time Capsule would give the best possible coverage around the house, so if that issue is not linked to the BT Home Hub compatibility issue, then are there different settings I should be trying on the Time Capsule via Air utility?
For completeness sake I also notice that the hourly back up sometimes fails as my iMac does not find the Time Casule every hour, and sometimes very small updates can take longer thah I would expect.  Perhaps this is linked to the above, but perhaps not.
Anyway, I would be most grateful for your advice.
Best wishes,
David

Hmmm.. TC should auto select channel to not interfere with the Home Hub.. but the home hub might also be set to auto.. this means you have auto-auto.. and no controller who dictates the terms. Set fixed wireless channels.. and keep them separated as far as possible from each other. Even using EOP or long ethernet even better to run the TC in some wireless dark area of the house.
In my case I have a Thomson G wireless adsl modem.. and it beats the TC wireless hands down at the other end of the house.. simple fact is, the TC is no wireless power house.. regardless of Apple's so called improvements to the antennas and power output. The design is just not good for wireless.
So for 2.4ghz there are only 3 non-overlapping channels, 1, 6, 11 (13 in UK).. I recommend you set the BT to 1 and the TC to 11 or 13.
Use wireless names in the TC that are short no spaces pure alphanumeric.. and use wpa2 Personal security.
That is about the best you can do.. I like to force 5ghz to a different name.. so I can select it and it is much faster if you are in range.. but 5ghz has poor range.

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