topic Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two in My Router

Design flaw in the Hub Two

daveheee — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 09:39:45 GMT

Just got a Hub Two and for some daft reason ...unless I'm missing something ...you can't set a schedule to turn off the WiFi at night. Yes, you can stop your kids devices from connecting, or stop all devices connecting for that matter, but the WiFi still pumps out the frequencies. It seems like the only way you can stop the WiFi is to manually log into the router each night (and then morning) to switch it on and off, which is a total pain in the a#* or cut the power, but that means I can't work on ethernet while my family enjoys some WiFi free rest. I hope I am missing something here otherwise I'll have to use the 14 day cooling off period to cancel. Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

jab1 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 10:04:39 GMT

What router did you have previously?

As a point of interest, you do not have to use the Hub2 - any compatible router can be used.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

rbz5416 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:37:34 GMT

@daveheee

It's a very rare feature on any ISP supplied router. You'll have to buy your own or add a mesh system to achieve it.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

jab1 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:39:37 GMT

@rbz5416 - very true. Although I do have it on my Fritz!box.😀

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

rbz5416 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:46:19 GMT

@jab1

I probably should have added "budget" ISP, which Zen certainly aren't - assuming that's where it came from. 😊

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

jab1 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 16:50:01 GMT

@rbz5416 Yep, Zen it is, and I'm paying maybe £1.50/mo more than I would be paying PN - unfortunately we haven't got CityFibre infrastructure round here - yet - but when it appears, I'll be paying LESS.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

Dan_the_Van — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:07:03 GMT

@daveheee

I would say it's a missing feature rather than a design flaw

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

rbz5416 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 17:34:35 GMT

@jab1

That's impressive as there's £10pm difference in the retail prices for FTTC. If my cashback & reward card are honoured, nearer £16pm difference. But we're well off @daveheee's topic, so will stop now.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

pint — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 21:31:05 GMT

Get your own route, I can understand cutting access off for children, but why would you want to turn off the wifi completely?

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

jab1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 06:19:41 GMT

@pint 'Wi-Fi radiation damages the brain'?

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

pint — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:18:58 GMT

@jab1
only if you read conspiracy nut job nonsense

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

jab1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 07:21:23 GMT

@pint True - which is why I put the comment in quotes - I know it is a load of baloney.😀

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

daveheee — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:48:21 GMT

Yeah I suppose you could look at it that way...but it's such a humdinger of an oversight that I went for the drama. I actually went back to Plusnet because I remembered their router was very granular under the hood and this was a feature I relied on with my previous ISP's router so now I can't have it it's really put me off staying.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

daveheee — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 23:57:39 GMT

Read the PDF called The Invisible Rainbow by Arthur Firstenburg. And I know you can't avoid all Electromagnetic fields but I do my best to keep them at a minimum. My router is in my bedroom because my desk is there (it's the only place I can get some peace to work) so I need it off at night.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

daveheee — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:02:44 GMT

It was a feature on my old Vodafone router, it was about the only decent feature it had really but an essential one IMO. You could schedule it to go on and off in line with your sleep and it also had a button on the top which turned it on and off as well.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

daveheee — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 00:05:03 GMT

True, but then I could sign up to sky and pay a third less if I was going to use my own ...also I'd have to fork out for it too ... obviously.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

rbz5416 — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 05:45:22 GMT

@daveheee wrote:
True, but then I could sign up to sky and pay a third less if I was going to use my own ...also I'd have to fork out for it too ... obviously.

On that, Sky's routers don't support it either & your choice of third party routers would be very limited due to their authentication method.

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

spile — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 06:33:52 GMT

I’d suggest an alternative strategy

https://www.internetmatters.org/resources/guide-to-encourage-kids-to-share-their-digital-lives/

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

pint — Tue, 08 Apr 2025 07:16:40 GMT

Cover the lights if its disturbing you, talk about EMF issues is complete and utter nonsense believed by fools, alternatively wear a tin foil hat and wear a magic stone

Re: Design flaw in the Hub Two

daveheee — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:57:23 GMT

That's a good point ... probably going to have to go back to Vodafone