Alternative to bt business hub 5 uk business forums. Hi,if you read the response from the mod fiona,i have spoken to the technical team about this. Click on the title and picture of your hub to see links to all our help. Bt business hub 5 firmware update plusnet community. Wait for the firmware to install to your bt home hub and click finish. I frequently get the message cant connect to sonos on my ipad and iphone and even the controller on my imac does not always show all rooms. The effect of this is to make the router unlocked and able to be used on any isp. The bt business hub is a powerful, onebox solution for your business, containing a broadband modem, router, hub and wireless access point giving you the freedom to share your internet connection around your office, with flexible support for wireless, ethernet, and usb, and gives you everything needed to maximise your broadband experience.
At the moment wifi is being used to gain customers, bt got told off for advertising. Reverse engineering and exploiting the bt homehub 3. With great battery life enabled by the a bionic the fastest chip in a smartphone. Orange light on hub 3 virgin media community 4040421. If youre a fan of apple smartphones then youre in luck as weve got some great iphone deals including the new iphone x and the popular iphone 7 and 7 plus models, too.
However, the board pns clearly indicate askey manufacture. The residential hub, for the residential line is the same and the firmware will lock the router to the residential domain. Every version of this router a, b has its own firmware. All bt hubs have a firewall, which is turned on by default. Virgin media launches intelligent wifi but check youre on the. Bt business hub 3 getting started and troubleshooting pdf.
Monitors your conection and reboots if it spots a problem. Mini whole home wifi whole home wifi premium whole home wifi all versions work with any broadband provider. Upgrade to a new phone, change your current mobile contract, or renew your simonly plan. Whole home wifi is running the latest firmware to get the best experience. After 80plus hours of researching headsets and testing more than 18 models over the past few years, including testing three new models over 20 hours for the latest update, weve determined that the plantronics voyager 5200 is the best mono bluetooth headset for making and taking calls, whether youre in a quiet office or a noisy coffee shop. The hub is effectively their own branded wireless router. Abstract thispaperdetailstheprocessbywhichireverseengineeredthefirmwareforthe britishtelecom. The bt smart hub is an unassuming router that builds on the smart hub 5s design. Some bt infinity customers using their homehub 5s have been having. The app for setting up and managing all 3 versions of whole home wifi from bt the.
On a mac, click the apple logo at the top and select about this mac system. Bt or british telecom, as they used to be known is the name of my isp. This appears to have been caused by a dodgy software update, to which there is now a. The updated firmware locks the router to allow it to be only used on a bt business broadband. Bt smarthub with airport time capsule apple community. I saw on the sonos website sonos and incompatible hardware page that the issue had been resolved by a firmware update. The unit has a minimalist twotone black front, with the only obvious design features being a. Black hub is in my wifes office upstairs, with her pc and a doitall brother printer wired in, and my pc next door wifid. The only thing i can think of is that a new firmware update has come through and messed up the connection of my apple devices to the router. The bt business hub is suplied for the business broadband connection and the new firmware locks the router to the business broadband domain details.
In the spirit of sharing, i came across a process for setting up an organise and share hosted exchange account on the new iphone. Bt home hub 4 custom firmware i have looked at the bigger custom router firmware out there, and none of it seems to support my rather basic router. Apple devices wont connect to internet bt community. Good news and bad news, 1st the good news bt has released an upgrade for the home hub 2. Download our software for desktop and mobile platforms designed to improve the experience of using, managing, and owning plantronics audio devices. Run the bt recovery firmware that comes with the bt hub. Graham sutherland, bt business chief executive, said. Wps wifi protected setup is a method of quickly connecting devices to a. The recovery tool will take a few moments to search for your bt hub. Some bt infinity customers using their homehub 5s have been having problems with wifi and internet dropouts. Bt smart hub firmware update go to solution easiest way is to hold the factory reset button on the back of the hub for 2030 seconds then let the hub restart. Page 20 bt power save your bt business hub 3 comes with power save, which means it goes into sleep mode if theres been no activity for over five minutes. Find help for all the recent models of the bt hub including the bt smart hub, 4g mini hub and the bt home hub 5, hub 4 and hub 3. With our new infinity offering, customers get office 365 and unlimited wifi as standard, so they can work even more flexibly, and an easy to set up business hub 5 which offers access to our fastest ever wifi speeds.
Jan 26, 20 to connect iphone 5 to bt hub 3 it for fixing problem the problem is i think only with ios 6. Set up static ip ok and assigned a static one to my windows 7 desktop. Feb 24, 2015 some bt infinity customers using their homehub 5s have been having problems with wifi and internet dropouts. Is your wireless broadband slower than a sloth carrying heavy shopping through a swamp. View online or download bt business hub 3 getting started and troubleshooting. Still the uks most powerful wifi signal vs major broadband providers. I was wondering if you guys know of any firmware that is decent i dont need anything too complex, basic options such as bandwidth control and so on should do me and able to support my router. Rightclick to extract the zip folder and click next when it launches. The local bt agents elysium promised to give me a new business smarthub but apparently that doesnt actually exist for business connections, only for home use. Virgin media uk upgrade broadband routers with intelligent wifi.
They can manually update the firmware of the router for you, however, the new firmware locks the router to the domain. As well as knowing apple products inside out, our accreditation mean weve also got the expertise to help you integrate apple solutions into your existing infrastructure and make the most of your investment. Jan 03, 2017 it seems the problem is the business hub 5 wireless is quite poor. What is the latest firmware which my bt hub3 should be using. This appears to have been caused by a dodgy software update. Whether you want to change your call plan or add another phone, simonly, or extra data, were waiting to help you. There are two gigabit ethernet ports on this device. Next generation wifi standards give you massive speeds. The bt home hub, designed especially for use with bt broadband. Theres also the much older home hub 3 still knocking around in a few. Hacking the bthub 34 or potentially more wonderhowto. Any stepbystep instructions on what to replace it with would be appreciated.
So weve all established that bt hubs will work on plusnet, even bt admit this themselves. Unlock your bt home hub to use with another isp the. Our smartest hub yet is futureproofed to deliver fast speeds throughout your home. Note that this will only work with an iphone running 2. If you have bts complete wifi service the black discs this app wont work for you, download the my bt app to set it up. I experimented with sha1 hashing the serial number of the newer routers and found the method as expected no longer works, however using an old bthub 2 and bt hub 4 i see that. Bt smarthub with airport time capsule i have been using my airport extreme time capsule connected to a bt infinity modem for some time this providing my wireless network and a large disc to be able to transfer data between imac and macbook pro etc i dumped the bt homehub 3 in favour of the airport extreme. Download whole home wifi from bt and enjoy it on your iphone, ipad and. Go to start control panel network connections local area connection rightclick properties click on i. Even when i am connected i occasionally get intermittent service. I went back to hh5 and everything worked perfectly again. Ive got one that appears to have the firmware bug re intermittently disconnecting wireless sessions, bt admit a firmware update will cure this, but mine doesnt seem to want to update to the latest version. It seems to be quite a long time since any update, so im trying to find out if there is a problem with updating or wh.
The white hub is diagonally in a big old wifi unfriendly house downstairs, and drives the bt vision box and an old pc running ubuntu wifis in over a belkin usb adapter. The app for setting up and managing all 3 versions of whole home wifi from bt the white discs. I had to abandon the bt smart hub last year because of constant connection problems with the iphone ipad apps. To connect iphone 5 to bt hub 3 it for fixing problem the problem is i think only with ios 6. Allows endusers to customize their settings and get visible status of their plantronics audio device on their desktop.
Our smart wireless technology means you get the strongest signal possible from the bt business hub 3 to your devices compared with other major broadband providers. Anyone with the hub 3 will have already received the update, but virgin media. Wirelessn technology a smart antenna and signal processing that gives up to fivetimes the performance and up to twice the range, compared to our previous bt business hub. All lights will be dimmed and your hub will wake up as soon as you need it. This device appears to be mostly identical to the bt home. Aug 07, 2007 thought this might be useful here are the instructions to upgrade your bt homehub to firmware 6. I have a sonos 1, 3 and 5 and a bt home hub 6 with tplink av600 powerline wifi extender. This includes the red wan port and the right most port on the lan switch. Flashing a bt home hub 5 hi, i live in london and have been teaching myself about networking for a while now, and i think im at the stage where i want to try changing my routers firmware to a 3rd party. At bt shop weve got a range of the latest and most indemand smartphones on the market from brands including apple, samsung, nokia and many more. Morning guys, setting up my static ip last night on my bt business hub the new one that is same is the home hub i think.
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