BT Home Hub Setup

I have had quite a bit of traffic via the two articles on setting up a BT Home Hub with a Mac (see post), and about the resulting ‘virus’ that was reported (see post), with the ‘virus’ post attracting a very useful comment from ‘James’.

I have also had some people ask me if the setup went as easily as I claimed in A BT Home Hub and a Mac, yes, I can assure you it did, I was very surprised. In the Mac world we are used to plugging things in to our computers and everything working, however, as soon as we cross over to ‘peripherals’ that are not Mac orientated, and which have been produced assuming everyone uses Windows, things can go wrong. I have lost count of the number of times I have battled with wireless hubs from Macs (and on some times had to resort to using a Windows machine) in an attempt to configure them so they connect to the net, and/or allow Macs to connect, but with the BT Home Hub it just worked. We had one hitch, which was sorted out by the BT help-line in a matter of minutes, and the annoying problem of ‘registering domains’ (see earlier post for details and a solution using UK2.net) but the rest was easy…

The hub has now been working for just short of 2 months and it has been great. The client has experienced none of the annoying ‘internet drop-outs’ experienced when using the previous provider, and the hub gives a good strong signal.

All blog posts on the BT Home hub can be seen at here.

P.S. Since the initial report of the ‘blaster virus’ (see earlier post) it has not occurred again.