Plusnet Hub One

[#1]

Wifi has never been that bad in my house.  So it's never really been a problem.  Would have nice if my laptop I use in my bedroom could use it.  May look for a cheap dual band usb adaptor.

[#2]

Does anyone elses Hub One make a noise upon upstream/downstream activity? Like hard-drive-working sort of noise?

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Hi, I've got a Sagemcom Plusnet Hub One which makes whistle-y/scratch-y/sounds-like-a-hard-drive-working noises  >:(. I phoned and was sent a replacement and this one does the very same thing. It's significant enough - even with talk radio on I can hear the router noise!  Please help? http://community.plus.net/forum/index.php/topic,114585.msg1302207.html#msg1302207

[#3]

Hello everyone
I see this thread has been going a long while, I recently have subscribed to plusent TV and have been pushed down the plusnet hub one which I wasn't keen on but my other router was not compatible with Youview.
I have totally fallen out with this router, no remote access am I correct ?
Any way the real gripe I have is port forwarding on this router I've never has so much trouble in life with a router say port conflict with a device you have just chosen er excuse me I've just hard reset your router to make sure there are no devices or port forward rules setup. But it still maintains I have set 1 up. There is no logic to it at all I've managed to setup loads of port forward rules then tried to add 1 more and its says conflict , conflict ? conflict with what I've made a list and I've not used that port before so what gives ? so I then delete that rule I tried to setup and  then its says there is still a conflict er hello I've just deleted the 1 you said conflicted.
Please can someone else agree with me or help me out of this or recommend a router that will work with plusnet TV that behaves normally with port forwarding rules.
many thanks hopefully

[#4]

You can connect your old router into one of the spare ports of the new router - if that helps???

[#5]

Hi surely that would make things a little more complicated? I believe it's totally possible but I did have my old router setup as an access point and that seemed to stop plusnet tv from working, I swapped it out for a switch and hey presto plusnet tv started working .
Wouldn't I still get errors saying port forward conflicts? Or are you saying use my old router to do the port forwarding?
I rather a more permanent solution with a decent replacement I think
dick:quote

[#6]

You could port forward everything except the TV to your old router (only one rule).
Then use the old router to do the port forwarding.
It would only involve swapping a couple of cables to see if its a viable solution.
Disable DHCP on the old router.

[#7]

One thing I will say about the Hub One is the Smart Wireless works a lot better than the Automatic Channel selection on the Technicolor tg582n.

[#8]

Hi,
Has anyone used a Plusnet Hub One as a bridge to an existing router?
I already have an Asus DSL-N55U which we'd like to carry-on using, because:
1) it can split the Wifi access into seperate Guest and Residents networks
2) we already have a lot of DHCP rules setup for specific MAC addresses
3) remote access routing
4) she-who-must-be-obeyed likes the time-based Parental Controls we have on all our children's computers, tablets, phones, etc
Any config notes would be much appreciated!
Thanks in advance

[#9]

You may need to change the IP address range on one of the routers, but that what I have done as I get better performance from my Netgear router.

[#10]

@Mustrum
"change the IP address range on one of the routers"
Is that all? Sounds much too easy! 

[#11]

It is if you have the right kind of router, ie one with a WAN port. Alas from a very quick glance it appears your Asus is an ADSL only one, so it won't work.
If you like the way the Asus does things, upgrading to a VDSL Asus may be a good solution for you.

[#12]

Can't things be set up using a LAN port on the Asus as a WAN?

[#13]

Err, excuse my ignorance, is an ADSL port different to a WAN port? Both look like Ethernet ports to me.

[#14]

Yes, the ADSL port is different, it connects to the Modem. The LAN ports connect to the Router and the WAN port is normally the Internet side of the Router - not the Modem, and isn't normally accessible on a standard modem/router, but some modem/routers have a WAN port as well. It's also quite common to use a standard 2nd Router as a switch by using a LAN port as a WAN port and turning off DHCP on the 2nd router. But you want to use the DHCP on the 2nd router. I'm sure there's a way of setting this up, but it's not something I've done. There are some experts on this sort of thing around who'll hopefully come and advise.

[#15]

The front LED on the Hub One seems excessively bright to me even on the low setting. The Home Hub 5 I used before was more subtle.
Anyone else find this?