BT Phone hub?

Question

I have just subsvribed for another year to BT Broadband. They gave me a £2 reduction. They also sent me a phone hub . Excuse my ignorance ,but what is it for? And is is diffucult to install Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You mean hub with aerial or actual  phone on its own ( base and phone). If hub with aerial than it seems a mistake by BT ( unless if new rule), If base and phone than you can link to main hub phone and put any where in house ( i.e. in another room, upstair or downstair or holloway). Follow the instruction which came with phone on how to link. I beleive you have white phone. I hope this will be helpful.

Answer 2

You mean a Home Hub - a square white or black box around 6" square, with lots of sockets on it, and a slot for a phone?

If so, it's just a replacement for your current router (unless you already have a Home Hub). They have fewer features than the old routers, but better wireless and support the 'home hub phone' which is cordless and better quality than most cordless (and cheaper of course).

I think BT are sending out Home Hubs for free to all BT Broadband users -  I got one about 3 months ago and never asked for one.

If you want it to replace your existing router, then just swap the wires as instructed. It comes with a CD to install. It checks and re-installs a lot of the BT versioned software, but painless enough. Probably less hassle then the original broadband set-up. By default it comes with WEP enables so you need the key printed on the hub label. It's more secure 'out the box'.

Mail me if you need more info.