D'oh!

[julianhj]

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.

 

[julianhj]

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.

 

[julianhj]

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.