Just received a HUB2.
Had the previous HUB1? For five years. Great I thought technology moves on it’s got to be better.
Well here’s my experience.
Installing hub and getting an internet connection was straight forward. Then came the task of reconnecting all my WI-FI connected kit to recognise the new SSID and password.
Most gear was ok. My SONOS WI-FI sound system was an absolute pain took ages to re-establish connections. Then all the family laptops, phones, tablets and Amazon smart speakers.
Then came the real bug bare. The smart sockets and smart controllers for lighting. They only connect on 2.4Ghz WI-FI my phone which has the SMART app for installing said sockets would only connect to 5Ghz Wi-Fi so wouldn’t talk to the Smart gear . It took me quite a while to realise this duh! Because everything was fine on the old router. In the dim distant past I had separated at the router the two Wi-Fi 2.4/5 GHz networks. Gave them different names so that I could choose what network to attach a certain device to.
HUB2 doesn’t allow this as far as I know. So to me it was absolutely useless.
Another thing I found was reduced WI-FI range. With the old router I could be sat in my car outside my garage and just manage to get onto my WI-FI 5Ghz. With HUB2 absolutely no chance, no signal at all.
So right now HUB2 is all nicely packaged and back in its cardboard box. It took me 45mins to re-instal the original router and all the peripherals , including setting them all up as I had done factory resets etc in an attempt to install Smart stuff to HUB2.
Surely when so much Smart stuff is in peoples houses the designers of HUB2 would have made allowances for this.
Now I could be missing something and maybe someone will say you did it all wrong. I will live and learn but HUB2 is staying in it’s box!
