Let me grumble about the BT Smart Hub 2 and BTWi-fi

[chazzy2501]

This is a lie:

 

These are off, you'd assume this means that the router is not longer transmitting anything right! Wrong. The router is still offering the BTWi-fi and BTWifi-X to the public. You can only disable this by opting out online and waiting 28 DAYS!

 

FFS I hate BT right now, secretly opting you in to a service, then making it hard to stop then making it a non-user choice to turn off Wi-Fi then mislabelling and misleading the controls on the router.

 

EDIT: What the options I've circled actually seem to do is disable the private SSID.

Edited May 26, 2022 by chazzy2501

[Steve21]

I don't know if BT are the same as Virgin, but if you disable that you may also lose access to the public spots on your own account

 

Having it enabled shouldn't affect your own network at all as it normally splits it off (think VLAN wise) so it goes straight out to BT etc rather than on your own network, so really apart from the tiny latency aspect nothing should be affected on your end

 

Steve

[Norphy]

 

Having it enabled shouldn't affect your own network at all as it normally splits it off (think VLAN wise) so it goes straight out to BT etc rather than on your own network, so really apart from the tiny latency aspect nothing should be affected on your end

 

 

Granted, but if you’re disabling the Wi-Fi on an ISP provided router, I assume that you’re going to provide your own wireless access points. If that thing is sat there still transmitting SSIDs, that’s going to eat into the available airspace that you have around you which could theoretically be a problem if you live in a densely populated area. The amount of Wi-Fi networks I used to pick up when I lived in London was insane

[Chuckster]

I would normally replace it with a Draytek Vigor 130 modem and a choice of your own Wi-Fi router.

[Garacesh]

This is a lie:[ATTACH=CONFIG]65593[/ATTACH]

 

These are off, you'd assume this means that the router is not longer transmitting anything right! Wrong. The router is still offering the BTWi-fi and BTWifi-X to the public. You can only disable this by opting out online and waiting 28 DAYS!

WTH? I thought they said they were going to make all that optional years ago, back when it was "BT Wifi with FON"

Terrible practice, BT. Sure, let's just carve off a slice of everybody's network for rando's to use. That's a fantastic idea.

 

Security and convenience being polar opposites again.

[Norphy]

I would normally replace it with a Draytek Vigor 130 modem and a choice of your own Wi-Fi router.

 

Fine in theory but BT Digital Voice, if you have it, complicates matters. As well as acting as a router and wireless access point, the BT Home Hub 2 is also a SIP phone and a DECT base station. The handsets that BT provide pair to the BT Home Hub using DECT so if you use another router, you lose BT Digital Voice.

[Roberto]

Had to help my elderly in-laws switch to BT Digital Voice earlier this year and to be honest their system and their guides for that are completly unhelpful. I've had surgery that was more enjoyable than dealing with BT. In fact, during the same time frame I've set up a global VOIP system integrated into Teams for all our offices and the exasperation generated by dealing with BT for one house was only slightly less than that generated by the foilbles of a global VOIP project at work. Edited May 27, 2022 by Roberto

[chazzy2501]

I need exclusive use of the 5ghz radio for my Quest2 the thing eats wifi bandwidth (in airlink mode, 100Mbps always) and is sensitive to other devices on the spectrum. I have a separate wifi for every other device. (as the smarthub 2 cant split the wifi only turn 2.4 or 5 off, ((probably due to the stupid games they play)))

 

Yes, I've been moved onto digital voice so the hub is mandatory... (not thrilled btw the hub needs to be powered so not an emergency phone anymore)

 

I didn't opt in to this service, I wasn't even aware of it until troubleshooting my wi-fi. Then to wait 28 days for the grace of BT to allow me to actually turn off the built in wi-fi vexes me somewhat.