BT Home Hub - The Basics

General information on BT Home Hub Broadband router, plus links to resources and help.

 

What is the BT Home Hub?

The BT Home Hub is the Internet router that's supplied with BT's home Broadband service. It plugs into your home phone line via a special adapter, and becomes your broadband modem. The BT Home Hub also supports wi-if wireless access, offering a broadband connection to wi-fi devices in your home. You can also get a phone handset to go with your Home Hub - the handset uses BT Broadband Talk to route calls over the Internet to get cheaper calls. The BT Home Hub is also used as part of BT's home TV service, BT Vision - with this, you connect a special set-top box to the Hub and to your TV, and you can watch TV shows and movies over Broadband on your telly.

 

Getting a BT Home Hub

The BT Home Hub is provided for free on most BT Broadband packages. Details at bt.com/btbroadband

If you want to buy one, or to buy a phone handset for your Hub, go to www.shop.bt.com

 

More information on the BT Home Hub

There have been three versions of the BT Home Hub. Version 2.0 is the current model

Here's what the Home Hub 2.0 offers:

• Wi-fi wireless - using the newer 802.11 'n' standard for longer range
• 4 Ethernet sockets
• Power-saving mode (powers down overnight)
• Optional handset (for cheap calls over the Internet

Want to know more? Over at Frequencycast.co.uk, there's a review of the Home Hub 2.0, as well as an audio guide on using the Hub.

 

Home Hub Versions:

BT Home Hub 2

BT Home Hub 1.5

BT Home Hub 1

 

Sockets on the rear of the BT Home Hub 2.0

 

Home Hub Help and Advice?

• Hub Help - Our page of links to BT Home Hub Answers
  
  
• Home Hub FAQ - Handy how-to information for Hub users
  
  
• Home Hub Audio Guide - An audio guide on how to use the Home Hub, from our podcast chaps.
  
  
• BT Home Hub forum - Questions and chat about the Hub

 

Other Home Hub resources:

• Review of the Home Hub 2.0: FrequencyCast Home Hub Review
  
  
• BT Fon Help: BT Fon
  
  
• BT ToGo Smartphone Review: BT ToGo
  
  
• Setting up with Nintendo Wii with the BT Home Hub: Nintendo Wii
  
  
• Home Hub Chat: Home Hub Forum
  

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