Business Hub 3 or Home Hub 3 - difference ?

[BlueMagic1959]

BT Business user (for home / small office use) - currently using a Business Hub 2 (black and silver) but wi fi reception in parts of house are poor / nil.

I understand a Business Hub 3 is better ?    Any views ?

I have been offered a BT Home Hub 3 (on ebay)   - which looks to be the same cosmetically - but am not sure if that will suffice or whether i should order a Business hub 3 instead ?

Any advice ?    

[shanej]

I upgraded to BT 3 HUB.  It has not improved the WIFI rage in our home/office.  I can nearly see the routwer sometimes and it will be out of range, 15-20m.  Also having issues with one of my Apple Desktops, thjis keeps droping conection to printers etc. even though I have it hard wired.

[Burkem5]

Hi Guys
As a few of you may know already the Hub 3 has had some issues with Macs,
In the past we had some quick fixes which let us get the traffic out into the world but did not really help with local networks.

The following is a full fix (worked out by smarter men than me) and should let the Hub and the Mac properly communicate and should get you back up and running without all the reboots

Fair warning I have tried this several times for getting traffic out of the hub (which worked everytime) but have not had a chance to test this with an internal network set up.

Please do the following

Click the Apple Symbol
Then "System Preferences"
Then "Sharing"

This will now show the "Hostname/Computer Name" of the Mac


Now change the name of the Mac so that it is all one word with no spaces and no special characters
Press enter to apply this

Now copy the new hostname

Press "Show All" at the top of this window

Then select "Network"

Now choose the current connection method e.g. Ethernet, Firewire, Wi-Fi
Then click "Advanced"

The choose "TCP/IP"

Paste the hostname into the "DHCP Client ID" box
Then click "OK"

Then click "Apply"

The Mac will then disconnect and then reconnect to the hub.  This will take roughly 10 seconds

Hope this helps

Burkem5

[BlueMagic1959]

Thanks for the post.

Could you confirm whether there is any difference between a Home Hub 3 and a Business Hub 3 ?

As I'm a Business Broadband customer, I have now opted to order a Business Hub 3 from BT.  The order has been placed. However there seems to be a delay in these being despatched / available - hence I am now wondering whether a Home Hub 3 would be as good ?

Do you have any views as to whether the range on a Business Hub 3 will be better than my current Business Hub 2 (Gateway 2700) ?   The coverage from this is insufficient for my (very ordinary sized) house.   

[markp]

Hi BlueMagic1959,

The main difference between the Business Hub 3 and the Home Hub 3 is the firmware within them.  As the Home Hub 3 does not have some features to set up things like, public static IP's and the setting up of port forwarding works slightly differently, it has to be donw by device name and not by user defined IP.

Hope this help

Markp

[Plumly]

Hi,

Hardware wise, not really they are pretty much the same router.

software/Firmware wise yes there is some changes, i.e. the Home Home 3 won't support static IP assignment, which is only relevent on Business (residential don't offer a static IP Solution),

generally thought for your average Joe user no they would be completely the same and do what you want, Connect to the internet and give you webpages and Email 😄

Thanks
Plumly