RE: BT HomeHub Networking Woes

["Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dont know the answer but I noticed the same thing last night.

If I try to ping my server by name it also says pinging server.home and
comes up with a stupid 216.x.x.x address. It has ONLY just started doing
this so I guess they have done some sort of firmware update that has
screwed
it up. I can also no longer access the LAN settings page on the router, I
get a 500 Internal Server Error message.

I have to say I am not impressed with the HomeHub2, it had frequently
locked
up requiring a reset and also DynDNS is broken.

You enter myhostname.dyndns.org and the router changes it to www.dyndns.org
which then fails. I had to put a dyndns client on my server to keep it
working. When I spent over 30 mins on the phone to india the idiot at the
other end said "and why are you wanting to use this feature?"
...erm BECAUSE
ITS SUPPOSED TO WORK and I have been using it on my HomeHub 1 for several
years!!!!"

Was thinking of defaulting the router and starting again.

Keith


> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Tim Hawes
> Sent: 27 September 2010 10:24
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] BT HomeHub Networking Woes
>
> Hi all,
>
> I've changed my router to a BT HomeHub V2 and now can't see the same
> shared
> drives I used to. All PCs can access the internet no problem but the
> previous "\\computername\shared folder\" shares don't work.
>
> Recreating with IP addresses works but since laptops can be wired and
> wireless, I don't want two separate shares.
>
> What could be wrong? I did notice when pinging machines that
".home"
> was
> being appended - I don't remember this happening with the old router.
> All
> PCs have a workgroup domain of "WORKGROUP" and there's no
flashy domain
> controller as such, just a group of PCs that used to be able to share
> drives
> between them. All PCs are XP-based if that makes a difference.
>
> I'm pretty sure that the change of router is the cause of the
problems,
> but
> how do I fix it / what setting/s (and where) do I need to change?
>
> TIA,
>
> Tim.
>
>
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>
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