BT Home hub wireless IP address problem

tomstickland

http://www.davidmillington.net/news/index.php/2006/08/28/bt_home_hub_manual_bios_update_guide

Right, I'm off to bed now.

tomstickland

albertross wrote: »

See page 17, wireless association button.. (not sure if this is just for the phone, or the laptop!)

http://www.frequencycast.co.uk/homehub.html

http://www.productsandservices.bt.com/consumer/consumerProducts/pdf/support/userguides/Guide_BT_Home_Hub.pdf

Wireless association button is for telephones. Reset button will be useful though.

Browntoa

BT Support advises that a full and proper hardware reset can be done by:

1. [FONT=Verdana, Arial]Push and hold the Wireless Association button (on the back panel) for 15 seconds, until all the lights light up - then release it.[/FONT]
2. [FONT=Verdana, Arial]The reset process may then take several minutes. [/FONT]
3. [FONT=Verdana, Arial]The Hub is reset and ready for use when the Broadband and Internet lights are steady green.[/FONT]

Browntoa

it could be that the thing was turned off during a firmware upgrade (not hard as the old one does not tell you it's doing one, although the new one has an amber light to warn)

I'd go for the firmware update manully using the recovery tool

tomstickland

OK, I've worked out how to access the configuration now via user:admin and password:admin
I've got a few things to do.
Firmware update is no1.

Browntoa

be warned that the new firmware sometimes prompts you to change the router password from admin

tomstickland

OK, firmware recovery has worked. 2 out of 3 computers now working, including wireless laptop.

tomstickland

I had some problems with 2nd laptop. Finally fixed it by turning everything off and restarting it all.

Sorted, very pleased now.

tomstickland

3 days later and I'm back round at my parents' house because the wireless connections don't work again.
Same problem - wireless cards stall when "acquiring network address".
Maybe I should manually set IP addresses. What range is valid?

tomstickland

OK, I'm typing this from the original working laptop. I did a reset via the hub manager and now it's working. I'm starting to wonder whether laptop 2 is corrupting the hub dns settings in some way or other.