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Hi,
I have recently set up a BT Home Hub in my home due to getting a BT Vision Box otherwise i wouldn't of bothered.
Basically what is happening is now that i have set that up i have put it at exactly the same place as my old router. The wi-fi/wireless within it isn't as good, the signal isn't as strong now even though bt claim it to be the strongest wireless device out of all ISP's.
I currently use Kubuntu on my laptop and also have a windows installed partition. When i had my old addon gwar 3000 router i got 54mits everytime when i connected. Now on this home hub i can only seem to get 50% signal strength. This being the case i decided to log into my router, under wireless it says that the connection 18mbit which is ridiculous.
So now my internet goes much slower, 18x 3 = 54 so i am 2/3 down on the speed that i should be getting with my internet connection.
I then did a speed test and my upload has always been about 300kbs, but my download always used to hover between 6.5mbit and 8.5mbit, the speed test said it was 6.5mbit which shouldn't be a problem.
So why do you think my wireless is so poor? Do i need to upgrade firmware because the home hub has a fault in it? Have Bt just suddenly capped home hub wireless connections?
I cannot think what it is, it says my wireless is 54mbit but yet when i log into my home hub through the browser it shows the wireless within the hub only working at 18mbit. This i never got with my old router, however i cannot change back due to me now using a bt vision box as well.
thanks, hope somebody can help me out a bit who know's what the problem may be.
I have recently set up a BT Home Hub in my home due to getting a BT Vision Box otherwise i wouldn't of bothered.
Basically what is happening is now that i have set that up i have put it at exactly the same place as my old router. The wi-fi/wireless within it isn't as good, the signal isn't as strong now even though bt claim it to be the strongest wireless device out of all ISP's.
I currently use Kubuntu on my laptop and also have a windows installed partition. When i had my old addon gwar 3000 router i got 54mits everytime when i connected. Now on this home hub i can only seem to get 50% signal strength. This being the case i decided to log into my router, under wireless it says that the connection 18mbit which is ridiculous.
So now my internet goes much slower, 18x 3 = 54 so i am 2/3 down on the speed that i should be getting with my internet connection.
I then did a speed test and my upload has always been about 300kbs, but my download always used to hover between 6.5mbit and 8.5mbit, the speed test said it was 6.5mbit which shouldn't be a problem.
So why do you think my wireless is so poor? Do i need to upgrade firmware because the home hub has a fault in it? Have Bt just suddenly capped home hub wireless connections?
I cannot think what it is, it says my wireless is 54mbit but yet when i log into my home hub through the browser it shows the wireless within the hub only working at 18mbit. This i never got with my old router, however i cannot change back due to me now using a bt vision box as well.
thanks, hope somebody can help me out a bit who know's what the problem may be.























