D'oh!

julianhj · 10 Apr 2013 at 09:43

I may have made a bit of a mess-up.

I switched to BT ADSL a couple of weeks ago, and have been having a load of issues with the connection - mainly the wi-fi.

After piling through loads of threads relating to Home Hub issues, I gathered that the HH3 is not terribly good, with lots of recommendations to switch to various other routers. Asus seemed to crop up a lot.

I therefore jumped at the chance when on another forum someone offered a brand new Asus RT-N66U for sale. He made reference to it being a good replacement for the HH3. I've now got it, and there's no issue at all there - it's still sealed.

The problem is that it's a cable/Infinity router, isn't it? And I'm still waiting for BT to put an Infinity cab in my street (my exchange was enabled recently).

So, do I:

a) sell it on again
b) hang on until BT pull their finger out, then use it on Infinity
c) wait for a wonderful OCUKer to tell me how I can start using it now in conjunction with the HH3?

I put c) in there as I see from the back of the box it has an input for 'Cable/DSL modem' - is this any good to me? I realise that I appear to sound clueless with this post. It's true, I am. Please help.

Clav · 10 Apr 2013 at 10:00

You can buy an adsl modem for quite cheap and plug it into the N56U. Then throw away the homehub. Have you an old modem you used before the homehub even?

For Virgin/Superhub I would say to use modem mode but I don't think the homehub has that? I could be wrong.

julianhj · 10 Apr 2013 at 10:32

I've got an old BT Voyager 105, but that only has a USB output, an original Home Hub and that's it. I sent my Be Box back as requested.

bremen1874 · 10 Apr 2013 at 12:43

If you're mainly interested in the improved wireless you could just configure it as an access point.

If you want to make full use of the router then a DrayTek Vigor 120 ADSL modem is the most elegant solution, but they aren't cheap.

bledd · 10 Apr 2013 at 14:24

Two options..

Get rid of that and replace it with a Asus DSL-N55U or Billion 7800N

or

Buy a standalone ADSL modem, like the Draytek 120 mentioned above.

You'll need to configure the modem(s) with your BT connection details.

Morg · 12 Apr 2013 at 15:57

You should be able to connect the HH to the Asus router via the WAN socket. Once these are connected log into the HH and turn the wireless off, so it's providing a direct wired connection to the router. If possible also set the HH to give the router a fixed IP and then copy this IP into the DMZ IP setting. The HH is now passing everything to your router for the router to handle the wireless.

Sorry if I've missed anything out, I'm writing this from memory. I've used this with sky fibre and sky broadband previously but it should be the same for BT. Basically you want your Homehub to pass everything to the router without any action and the only wireless signal to be from your router.

julianhj · 13 Apr 2013 at 06:20

I went with Bledd's suggestion in the end, but bought a TP-Link modem for about 1/3 of the price as it got loads of good reviews. Not plumbed it all in yet.

As an aside, I was using my powerlined desktop all day yesterday without any issue at all. No DNS issues, was streaming TV from a variety of broadcasters for nearly six hours - not a single issue. The wi-fi still needed rebooting every hour or two, so I squarely lay the blame at the HH3's door, rather than any sort of line issue.