Netgear or BT Home Hub?

[longdog]

I currently use a Netgear DSL Modem Internet Gateway DG814 connected to my main pc and to a Netgear 54 Mbps Wireless Access Point for laptop connection.

I recently signed up with BT and they sent me a "free" BT Home Hub with 2 ethernet ports, 2 USB posts and built in wireless. Has anyone got any experience of these? Does it have a quicker wireless connection than 54Mbps? By the way, I only use ethernet apart from the wireless.

 

[garfield]

I use the BTHomeHub. When my work laptop is connected via the ethernet cable I get 100Mbps which I'm pretty happy about.

Home PC is on wireless and again I'm happy, tonights results...

Broadband connection details:

Downstream 4,448 Kbps

Upstream 448 Kbps

Connection time 1 day, 18:00:26

Data transmitted 105.34 MB

Data received 936.81 MB

 

[the_laughing_mole]

Don't!

I was happily running on a Belkin wi-fi network with BT Broadband. BT offered me the home-hub as part of a free speed upgrade about a year back. Looked a nice piece of kit, installed it and eventually got the network working. Poorer network coverage in the house and annoying BT software. De-installed it and now happily back to belkin and working fine.

If you are happy with you current wi-fi network - don't install the BT hub, you won't get any better performance (indeed probably worse) and the BT software is rubbish...... IMHO

 

[Womble]

It won't help with coverage problems, but you don't actually need the BT software to manage the hub.

 

[Deleted account 220427002]

It won't help with coverage problems, but you don't actually need the BT software to manage the hub.

yea don't need software.
the hub phone with a free number is good but I've had a problem with browser disconnection... just browser connection not down or uploads...have had a replacement hub no difference... either BT exchange fault or hub
tried every combination to track down what's doing it.... nothing comes up

 

[garfield]

It won't help with coverage problems, but you don't actually need the BT software to manage the hub.

unless the hub develops a fault, you'll need software/hub manager running from the PC to fix it as I learnt