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Author Topic: New "BT Smart Hub"  (Read 69917 times)

licquorice

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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #60 on: June 23, 2016, 09:13:35 PM »

Looks to me from the screenshot smart is turned off and there are 4 options to choose. Choice of 3 channels or smart.
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #61 on: June 23, 2016, 09:15:25 PM »

There is no separate toggle for smart. What I show are the only options
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Geekofbroadband

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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #62 on: June 24, 2016, 04:55:28 PM »

My Hub rebooted around 12pm today and I checked the logs and it apparently had a firmware update for the modem but the firmware version stayed the same: SG4B100021D0 but my maximum data rate has increased by 2Mbs. I have also now got IPv6.
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #63 on: June 24, 2016, 08:22:37 PM »

Hmm so I tried a factory reset of the Hub and some things seem to have updated;

The firmware version has updated from SG4B100021D0 to SG4B100021EC

The GUI version has updated from 1.25.1 to 1.28.3

And the firmware update date has gone from 27/04/16 to 12/05/16

And by the looks of it the Event Log now displays the most recent chnages at the top instead of adding it on the bottom to a long list  :)
« Last Edit: June 24, 2016, 08:25:14 PM by Geekofbroadband »
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #64 on: June 24, 2016, 09:47:33 PM »

There is no separate toggle for smart. What I show are the only options

Your kidding me ! even when using the HH5A the WiFI smart option could be turn off and then the user could select any channel on 2.4 & 5.0 Ghz
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Geekofbroadband

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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #65 on: June 25, 2016, 02:49:53 AM »

Did my sensitive hearing detect someone taking comprehensive screen-scrapes of every accessible GUI page and then physically opening up the device to photograph the PCB (both sides) in high resolution?  :D

Here you go; @burakkucat  :P :)










« Last Edit: June 25, 2016, 02:57:00 AM by Geekofbroadband »
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #66 on: June 25, 2016, 04:01:26 PM »

Thank you for posting those images.  :)

I am sure that they will be thoroughly scrutinised by those considerably more versed in hardware matters than myself but the first interesting feature I noticed was the over-voltage gas-discharge device adjacent to the xDSL socket.
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #67 on: June 25, 2016, 04:21:46 PM »

Yes I thought the consensus was that discharge tubes slow VDSL down. Hence why they were removed in the newer NTE5 versions.
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« Reply #68 on: June 25, 2016, 05:11:44 PM »

Yes I thought the consensus was that discharge tubes slow VDSL down. Hence why they were removed in the newer NTE5 versions.

Your thought is equivalent to that of my own, when I saw that detail in the images.

I can only assume that the overall loss, caused by a capacitive shunt across the xDSL circuit, has been regarded as acceptable when compared with the financial loss, that would arise as a result of scrapping the CPE due to over-voltage incidents occurring on the circuit.  :-\
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #69 on: June 25, 2016, 05:31:01 PM »

It looks surface mounted, so should be very easy to remove  :cool:
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #70 on: June 25, 2016, 06:12:08 PM »

The LAL0562 information near the DSL socket is a dsl transformer http://www.linkcom.com.tw/userfiles/products/13565956713035en.pdf
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #71 on: June 25, 2016, 06:31:03 PM »

All the good stuff is hidden behind the three metal RF shielding covers now I guess the Broadcom 63137 R2 is inside the middle one now normal chips like these have heat-sinks mounted on top to dissipate heat yet it's enclose inside the RF shielding. 
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #72 on: June 25, 2016, 07:58:50 PM »

The RF shielding is probably part of BT's claim of it being less susceptible to interference from external signals. It is nice to see from them as many other manufacturers have been doing it for years.
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« Reply #73 on: June 25, 2016, 08:54:38 PM »

I guess the ARM cpu 63137 v2 runs much cooler than the older 63168 400 Mhz MIPS cpu
Broadcom BCM63137 (1Ghz dual core, Cortex A9).
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Re: New "BT Smart Hub"
« Reply #74 on: June 25, 2016, 09:55:56 PM »

The shielding will provide some extra heat transfer which may be beneficial. Alos the shield covers pictured usually come off/on easily. I am getting one next week too and will take some pics with them removed   ;D
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