This post deals with upgrading my BT Hub, from HH5 to a Smart Hub. It also contains notes on Wi-Fi signal strength and coverage.
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Losing sight of my remote disks
I discovered that my two remote disks cannot be seen on my W10 laptop, nor my elementary OS laptop. I worked round this by rebooting the disks which are connected to the network via an RJ45/USB connector to a BT Home Hub. This should work better than that. This is no longer a problem as…
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Copying from XP to Wn
I have been busy trying to copy files from a old XP machine to W8. The XP machine is connected by cable, the W8 machine by wifi. I am using a BT Homehub 2. Would it work, would it heck!
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BT Broadband
The UK’s premier provider of residential broadband services. This page holds my notes on their Fair Usage policy as at Autumn 2011. The comment documents BT’s transition to true unlimited. The page is now pretty much out of date. On the 25th July (2012?), I started to document the performance of the line at home….
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BT Home Hub
On 13th July 2013, I upgraded to BT Infinity, and my HH was replaced with a V4 Hub. This page is completely outdated. BT are the largest provider of broadband lines in the UK. They provide a hub/router as part of the package. This is was my bliki page detailing my use and knowledge about…
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Implementing a DHCP Client with BT Home Hub 2.0
The BT Home Hub supports dynamic and static i.e. file IP acquisition strategies for networked systems. It also permits the “fixing” of addresses to a dynamic client. I have implemented dynamic but fixed addresses on my three servers. So note, we now have dynamic, fixed and static addresses. One needs to be clear when asking…
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