Use a BT Hub 2, 3, 4 or 5 on a Plusnet connection
Quote from: BobJones6789 Thanks for the excellent guide, very useful and my homehub 5 now works! Something to add though, as I spent about an hour playing with it before figuring this out:
The homehub only accepts broadband passwords up to 12 characters long, but plusnet allows passwords up to 16 characters long so if your plusnet password is more than 12 characters long you'll have to change it for it to work with the homehub.
Thanks for this. I certainly wasn't aware of this. Many thanks for sharing this.
Quote from: crazydan7 hi, I am also using the hub5, but does anyone know how I can change the dns servers on this to point to open dns? I know I can do it on each machine manually but surely there must be a way to do this in the hub? cheers
You can configure the DNS settings in the advanced tab section I believe. I'm not home to check this feature but when I am, I will have a little check and report back.
Regards,
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The TalkTalk Super Router is compatible on Plusnet and combines the VDSL (Fibre) modem and router into one. It's exactly the same as the BT Hub 5 but a different design and brand.
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Think TalkTalk has damaged its reputation in the last few days with all the issues and data hacking they've had. 
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A couple more snippets on setting up the HH5 type B on a Plusnet connection.
As was mentioned before, change "Enable Smart Setup" to No. Goto >Advanced Settings (you'll be prompted to login if you aren't already) then >Continue to Advanced Settings >Home Network >Smart Setup
Now, changing the Username and Password as described previously (>Advanced Settings >Broadband >Internet) -
When you go to enter both of these, there is some sort of timing on the cursor. If you don't type quickly enough (and I doubt you will be able to), the cursor will jump back to the beginning of the username
So for example if you are trying to enter "myusername@plusdsl.net" if you are not watching you could end up with "usdsl.netmyusername@pl"
Just keep an eye on what you are typing and if the cursor jumps back then move it with the cursor Left and Right keys and then delete the superfluous characters that appeared at the start, move the cursor to where you got to and continue. You may have to do this several times
Similarly with the Password: - You need to click "Show Characters" before you start the password, and note when the cursor jumps, it goes back to "Broadband username"
This is on Firmware version v0.07.03.0814-BT (Type B) (and presumably later, can't say about earlier).
As was mentioned before, change "Enable Smart Setup" to No. Goto >Advanced Settings (you'll be prompted to login if you aren't already) then >Continue to Advanced Settings >Home Network >Smart Setup
Now, changing the Username and Password as described previously (>Advanced Settings >Broadband >Internet) -
When you go to enter both of these, there is some sort of timing on the cursor. If you don't type quickly enough (and I doubt you will be able to), the cursor will jump back to the beginning of the username
So for example if you are trying to enter "myusername@plusdsl.net" if you are not watching you could end up with "usdsl.netmyusername@pl"
Just keep an eye on what you are typing and if the cursor jumps back then move it with the cursor Left and Right keys and then delete the superfluous characters that appeared at the start, move the cursor to where you got to and continue. You may have to do this several times
Similarly with the Password: - You need to click "Show Characters" before you start the password, and note when the cursor jumps, it goes back to "Broadband username"
This is on Firmware version v0.07.03.0814-BT (Type B) (and presumably later, can't say about earlier).
I would think that is a bug.
If it is deliberate, BT would probably just grey out those boxes so you can't enter anything in.
Thanks for the tip @Anotherone
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If it is deliberate, BT would probably just grey out those boxes so you can't enter anything in.
Thanks for the tip @Anotherone
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