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Author Topic: Plusnet hub one alternative  (Read 4656 times)

Horsepowerimages

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Plusnet hub one alternative
« on: February 01, 2017, 10:29:24 AM »
Hi guys & girls we are due to move over to plusnet fibre in a week or so & they have sent me the hub one. Now I swapped over from my netgear d6300 to the hub one and I've noticed my wifi is terrible both upstairs & in the kitchen.

We are on an aio cab and was looking for advice on a vdsl router modem at around the £100 mark


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tubaman

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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2017, 10:41:23 AM »
I think you should be able to turn off the wireless on the Hub One and then use your D6300 as a wireless access point only.
You'll need to disable DHCP on the D6300 as the Hub One will still be acting as your router.
A similar question was asked on the Plusnet forum - https://community.plus.net/t5/My-Router/Convert-Plusnet-Hub-One-into-a-modem/td-p/1341843
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« Last Edit: February 01, 2017, 10:44:31 AM by tubaman »
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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2017, 11:31:50 AM »
Thanks for the reply
I will have a look and see if I can sort it.


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Geekofbroadband

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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2017, 04:38:26 PM »
Hey,

Have you separated the 2G and 5G on the Hub one? It's a lot better than combined bands. WiFi for me is actually pretty good ^_^
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Horsepowerimages

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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2017, 08:46:37 PM »
Quote from: Geekofbroadband on February 02, 2017, 04:38:26 PM
Hey,

Have you separated the 2G and 5G on the Hub one? It's a lot better than combined bands. WiFi for me is actually pretty good ^_^


In all honesty I have no idea how do do anything lol I just plugged it in and away we went


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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2017, 10:59:14 PM »
If you plug your D6300 WAN port into a LAN port of the Hub One, it will work out you have an IP address clash, and so change its own IP address range, and all will be good. Switching off the Hub One Wi-Fi is optional, but may help with Wi-Fi channel interference.
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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2017, 07:49:29 AM »
I separated the wi-fi last night so will see how much the kids complain about signal for phone & fire stick.
The PS4's are hard wired due to living in a house with real brick walls lol


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Re: Plusnet hub one alternative
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2017, 09:07:21 PM »
the wi-fi is no better, leaving 1 room seems to result in connection drop & my firestick in the bedroom now spends more time buffering (don't know if that's connected or just a coincidence)

I've also tried to connect it to a range extender but that is not connecting at all.
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