Access Bt Home Hub 5

I ordered the new hub 5 for free as it s always good to have a backup by re contracting.

Access bt home hub 5. The only exception is one backdoor that bt uses to upgrade the firmware. One area the home hub 5 could do better is the inclusion of just a single usb 2 0 socket but otherwise it ticks all the right boxes with wps and wpa wpa2 security bt s bundled family. We have a home hub 2 and various apple devices. 8 goto file explorer and expand the ribbon.

Make sure you re connected to your home network make sure you re connected to your home network. Here are some errors you may see. Home hub 5 access control hi is there a way to control internet access per device for different days of the week and different times. It s been overtaken in the performance stakes by the new bt smart hub which is much faster more.

If you plug a hard disk into the home hub then it is mounted as a drive on the hub itself in the same way as happens if you plug a usb disk into a pc the hub is actually a small computer running a customised version of linux. The easiest way to access the bt smart hub manager is to type 192 168 1 254 into a web browser or simply click on our link. 5 type run 6 enter 192 168 1 254 7 the usb drive plugged into the hub should now show. Find help for all the recent models of the bt hub including the bt smart hub 4g mini hub and the bt home hub 5 hub 4 and hub 3.

For example can you set different access times for mon fri and sat sun a bit like the homework time setting in bt parental controls but for each individual device. 9 goto add a network location. The bt home hub 5 was one of the fastest isp supplied routers around when it was first introduced. Until last week we.

But it struck me that i could use the home hub 5 as an access point and give stronger range upstairs towards t. Unable to connect to chromecast. I have had an issue in the last week which has never happened before. If you re a bt broadband customer with a homehub 3 homehub 4 or homehub 5 router you may experience some errors when trying to use your chromecast device.

These errors occur because of the smart setup enabled on these routers for bt broadband customers. 11 select the drive and follow the wizard renaming the location as desired.