Is it easy to replace BT HH3?

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I have BT's Infinity2.
At the moment I have a HH3 and an Openreach modem.

In my HH3 I have hardwired a PC, Xbox and printer. I also have several wireless devices.

It is becoming a pain with the printer though. There seems to be many people moaning to BT that when they upgrade to Infinity, the HH3 drops the printer connection. At best it shows as offline and then drops. As you can imagine BT refuses to comment.

Nothing on my setup has changed. Remove the Vmodem and hey presto the printer is back.

I have been reading up a little and many people are changing their HH3 to an ASUS RT-N56U.

I've noticed that Asus now do a RT-N66U - 900Mbps Dual Band Wireless N Router.

1) Is the RT NU66 the way to go?
2) Is it fairly simple to install and set up?

Thanks for your advice.
 
Haha, I've had the same problem with my printer and the HH3 as well :p. And it was fustrating to discover it was the HH3 causing all the problems...

As for the RT-N66U, you swap it with the HH3, and then in the WAN settings, change the connection type to PPPOE, with username as "[email protected]" and password as something random such as "12345" (doesn't really need a password but it won't connected to the OR router without it). Once that's done, it should be all ready :).
 
Even better, is it possible to replace both the Home Hub 3 and the Openreach modem for a single box that uses one power point and still has the performance of the RT NU 66?

Orcvader, how did you fix your problem with HH3?
 
Got a HP K5400 & one of their all in one as well & the HH3 would regularly loose them, right pain in the butt.
Presently using a RT NU 66,has four gigabit lan, compared to one on the HH3.
RT-N66U has been brilliant, hasn't dropped connection or lost my printers.

One bit of advice avoid the Draytek 2750n, had one, had nothing but problems with it, low speed, dropped connections, etc, upgrading firmware solved some issues, but the Asus is superior in many ways, & difficult to find fault with.
 
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