Thanks, I'm in an older house with solid walls, that's not goodHi Tony,
The wireless on mine isn't great.It tends to hunt a lot. I am in a separate room (the walls are thin) about 6metres from the router.
Thanks, yes mainly wifiIs the reason for replacing the Draytek purely due to WiFi issues?
If so you might be better keeping it just as a router and installing decent quality access point(s) (such as Ubiquiti). It will be significantly better than any WiFi router.
I'd definitely avoid the HomeHub.
Thanks, that's a good point about the scanning, what do you useWifi works fine on hh5 - don't forget its dual band, so its best to set up difference SSIDs for each band, 5Ghz has a much shorter range than 2.4. Also I would switch off auto scanning and just scan the spectrum yourself and work out the best channel. As a free Router, its pretty much the best of the free bunch there is.
Thanks for your helpI use inSSIDer, normally find the upper channels are free as most routers default to mid channels.
Thanks DaveI have been using the Home Hub 5 for some time, its upstairs at the back of the house, in my study, and I'm am typing this on a lap-top, downstairs in the lounge, at the front of the house.
This is a large house, and the router is some distance away.
Have never suffered from dropouts or lag, even when there are three of using using the internet, via the wireless connection, at the same time.
So, as far as I'm concerned, I have no complaints with the Home Hub 5.
Dave
Partner works for BT therefore we've had all the Homehubs. Last one I put up with was a Homehub 5. They've all been awful, yes they were easy to setup, but wifi drop outs and slowdowns finally got the better of me. No end of changing channels, tweaking 2.4ghz and 5GHz, renaming SSIDs to separate the two bands would help.
Finally gave in and spent about £80 quid on a TP-Link TD-W9980 which is a VDSL router designed to work on fibre and ADSL. It's been rock solid. wireless performance and reliability is just so much better than the BT unit. Connection speed and line stats better too. Finally, it also does multiplexing properly so BY Youview works correctly.
Can't recommend enough not going with a BT Homehub. Shame as they could have been so good!
PS: I have a sneaky suspicion that if you're enrolled in BT-FON, the extra SSIDs that the homehub will always run (you can't turn them off) is just too much for the built down to a price HH5 and that's wht you get the crappy signal and wifi reliability.
The Hub is there to produce a wireless signal nothing more. If something interferes with that wireless signal it is obviously going to drop out. Anything can interfere with wireless, baby monitors, supermarkets, christmas tree lights etc etc. The Home hubs have Smart wireless technology so if they are running on channel 1 and experience interference they will automatically change channel depending on your wireless enviroment. Thousands of people use the Home Hubs without any problems, if your wireless environment isn't very good you can't just blame the HH, the home hub doesn't just randomly cut off your wireless signal, it just doesn't happen.
You also mention BT WiFi/BT-FON, both of these can be turned off in the Home Hub manager screen or you can ring BT themselves and get them to opt you out.
To be perfectly honest the HH5 is a good piece of kit, dual band technology, you have the ability to have to separate SSID's, one for the 2.4GHz and one for the 5GHz, it does the same as most Netgears/Belkins/TP Links etc but it's simply cheaper as it's provided by your ISP.
I have used a Home Hub 3 for years, had around 10 devices connected to it constantly in a terraced house and I have never had any issues. I will be getting the HH5 eventually as I really can't be bothered paying for an over priced third party router, at the end of the day all you pay for is the name of the manufacturer.
The Hub is there to produce a wireless signal nothing more. If something interferes with that wireless signal it is obviously going to drop out. Anything can interfere with wireless, baby monitors, supermarkets, christmas tree lights etc etc. The Home hubs have Smart wireless technology so if they are running on channel 1 and experience interference they will automatically change channel depending on your wireless enviroment. Thousands of people use the Home Hubs without any problems, if your wireless environment isn't very good you can't just blame the HH, the home hub doesn't just randomly cut off your wireless signal, it just doesn't happen.
You also mention BT WiFi/BT-FON, both of these can be turned off in the Home Hub manager screen or you can ring BT themselves and get them to opt you out.
To be perfectly honest the HH5 is a good piece of kit, dual band technology, you have the ability to have to separate SSID's, one for the 2.4GHz and one for the 5GHz, it does the same as most Netgears/Belkins/TP Links etc but it's simply cheaper as it's provided by your ISP.
I have used a Home Hub 3 for years, had around 10 devices connected to it constantly in a terraced house and I have never had any issues. I will be getting the HH5 eventually as I really can't be bothered paying for an over priced third party router, at the end of the day all you pay for is the name of the manufacturer.