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Powerline adaptor & BT Home Hub 3 Problems Roaming
Hi, I have BT Infinity installed with the BT Home Hub 3 but due to the shape and age of our property the wireless connectivity from the HH3 would not reach the other end of the house. As a resul...
I just had infinity installed and have had problems trying to replicate my old setup.
I used to have a Netgear DGND3300 as the main hub on ADSL, connected via a powerline adapter to the old HH2 with DCHP disabled, both with the same SSID and devices [laptops, ipods, ipads etc] would switch seamlessly between them. The hub was only using the 2.4GHz channels and not the 5GHz.
Had Infinity installed about 10 days ago, and after the BT man had done his thing, reset the whole thing with the HH3 in place of the Netgear router, with the same IP addresses and ranges and non-conflicitng wireless channels as before. You would think it would all work fine...
Sadly not - apparently the architecture of the HH3 is such that if you have a wired wifi range extender connected to it [via an ethernet cable or through a powerline], once a device connects to the slave wifi, the HH3 locks that MAC address out so cannot reconnect back to the HH3 when you move around. Very frustrating
Calls to BT and speaking to their engineers did not ellicit a solution so I found a heavily discounted Netgear WDNR3400 at PC World last week and have substituted that for the HH3, and brought the DNGD3300 out of retirement to use as the extender. I think I may have gone overboard as I have two networks on the go, the 'old' 2.4GHz one as before and a new 5GHz one with a different SSID.
It does work, but the switching is not as smooth as it was originally on original BT Broadband setup. I suspect there is some finetuning that could be done which is beyond my technical knowhow to get the current setup working perfectly [can anyone help with router settings on this].
On a positive note the pitiful wireless speeds being delivered by the HH3 have been nearly doubled by switching to the Netgear WLAN router. It's still only 65% of the 'wired' speed that seems to be available but fingers crossed.
Hope your access point solution works.
I used to have a Netgear DGND3300 as the main hub on ADSL, connected via a powerline adapter to the old HH2 with DCHP disabled, both with the same SSID and devices [laptops, ipods, ipads etc] would switch seamlessly between them. The hub was only using the 2.4GHz channels and not the 5GHz.
Had Infinity installed about 10 days ago, and after the BT man had done his thing, reset the whole thing with the HH3 in place of the Netgear router, with the same IP addresses and ranges and non-conflicitng wireless channels as before. You would think it would all work fine...
Sadly not - apparently the architecture of the HH3 is such that if you have a wired wifi range extender connected to it [via an ethernet cable or through a powerline], once a device connects to the slave wifi, the HH3 locks that MAC address out so cannot reconnect back to the HH3 when you move around. Very frustrating
Calls to BT and speaking to their engineers did not ellicit a solution so I found a heavily discounted Netgear WDNR3400 at PC World last week and have substituted that for the HH3, and brought the DNGD3300 out of retirement to use as the extender. I think I may have gone overboard as I have two networks on the go, the 'old' 2.4GHz one as before and a new 5GHz one with a different SSID.
It does work, but the switching is not as smooth as it was originally on original BT Broadband setup. I suspect there is some finetuning that could be done which is beyond my technical knowhow to get the current setup working perfectly [can anyone help with router settings on this].
On a positive note the pitiful wireless speeds being delivered by the HH3 have been nearly doubled by switching to the Netgear WLAN router. It's still only 65% of the 'wired' speed that seems to be available but fingers crossed.
Hope your access point solution works.