Reply To: BT Smart hub 2 FTTP Router Hi, Does anyone know if the BT Smarthub 2 router provided for FTTP will work on a FTTC connection? The router has a broadband grey port on it which will…

[kev2021]

Thanks, yes – RT AX86U is in parents place and is now in use with the FTTP so was going to take the smart hub 2 and try at mine, just to see if it improves wifi over the previous model as it is very slow, much slower tan the claimed speeds getting via LAN cable.  If i reboot the smart hub, wifi speeds are ok for a while but usually after a day or 2, it goes back to being very slow.  Most of the time I’m on cable but can be annoying when get phone updates etc which can take forever to download due to the slowness on wifi so will try the smart hub 2.  The sockets smartplugs had issues with smart hub 2 and i even turned off 5G as you can’t have separate SSIDs on smart hub 2 it seems so i turned of 5g incase that was having a issue a smart plugs only work on 2.4 but no change.  AS soon as i put back the ASUS router, they all connected fine and stayed connected so I’m thinking its the smarthub 2.  I set it to the same pswd I had on previous smart hub, which was fine but it did say it was a weak password, whereas previous smart hub said it was strong so i guessed that have increased the password requirements now and mine now falls under weak (orange bar, 3/4 of the way along, not very weak etc so maybe i need to change it all but will try and see how it goes after a few weeks when i know the Asus is stable and likely wont need it.  At the moment, keeping it encase of issues, i can plug it back in to see if same issues before reporting to BT etc.

Kev

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