The BT Home Hub is a pile of shite

This isn't a new revelation; I'd already been tipped off by various friends in the industry about how piss-poor this device is. However, today was my first personal experience with the thing, and it did little to ingratiate itself to me. It's also unnaturally large given how light (and how obviously empty) the box is.

My cousin and her husband were unfortunate enough to have one foisted upon them by BT, and had not been able to get the wireless working since it arrived - which was hardly surprising since the integrated wireless was not only not broadcasting its SSID, but appeared to be disabled entirely, despite several admin pages on the box claiming the contrary. After a few cursory searches of various forums, I quickly learned that this is not an entirely unusual problem.

If you are unfortunate enough to have to deal with this retrograde piece of rubbish, may I recommend the following resources:

• Lock your Home Hub into firmware version 6.2.2.6 from Jarvisers Workshop BT Home Hub,
• the BT Home Hub firmware recovery tool,
• and finally, somewhere to get some decent kit and a ISP that won't sell you such shite in the first place.

It did eventually acquiesce and start broadcasting - incredibly, the device does even support WPA2 in the latest firmware, though since BT routinely send firmware upgrades to it remotely, I won't be surprised if it stops working again at some point. Not a system I'll be recommending any time soon.