Damn internet!

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Okay so here's the story.

Moved house and moved in on the 8th.

Ring up BT and purchase BT Phone + Broadband. (Before we moved house)

Got a letter through the post with internet login + password.

Used them on my previous router

Everything worked absolutely fine.

Got homehub through the post.

Mum wants me to use the homehub because it looks 'nicer'. Even though I have one of the best routers you can get.

So I think fine because I CBA to argue.

And now here comes the troubles.

No matter what I do I cannot get the ****ty homehub to work. I plug it in, the blue light lights up saying it has broadband.

However the HomeHub comes with an install disk, you put that it, search for the homehubs signal, and then you put in your internet key (that comes on a sticker on the back of the homehub) and it should connect. Well apparently the key is wrong?! absolute BS.

So I think **** it I can't be bothered with this ****. So I put it away and get my one back out, plug it back in and hey presto works good again...

Except that's what I thought.

I now get drop outs in connection say every 30 minutes, sometimes more. It will connect to the internet say it's connected but when you load up a webpage it refuses to load so I have to unplug and plug in my USB dongle and it will work again for 30 minutes.

It's an absolute pain in the arse. I hate BT and I hate their ****ty homehub. It's somehow destroyed my internet =/.


So yeah rant over.

Anyone know what could cause this?
 
Have Cable Broadband rather than BT but thought i'd take a quick trip around Google
Came across

BT Home Hub - Unofficial Help and Advice

One thing that jumped out at me under WiFi Problems (assuming the USB dongle your talking about is a USB WiFi card) and as you have recently moved house

Channels: You may find that some other wi-fi equipment close by (perhaps a neighbour's wi-fi) could be on the same wi-fi channel, clashing with your Hub's wi-fi channel. There are 13 wi-fi channels available. Perhaps change the default channel.

Just a thought, pretty standard advice for any WiFi not just BT home hub
 
I'll try it.

Thing is my router the one I have.

Is Dual-Channel.

E.g. every other internet connection runs off of 2.4GHz

and mine runs on 5GHz + 2.4GHz so that I can get clear signal, (that's why it's one of the best) and my dongle is capable of receiving the 5GHz.

So that shouldn't be a problem. Unless the homehub tried to **** **** up with channels.
 
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