Re: BT HomeHub Networking Woes

[Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Welcome to the world if pain that is the BT Homehub ... It's even
worse when one day they work, the next they don't and you find out they
automatically updated themselves overnight!

Phil

Sent from another bloody fruit-based portable device...

On 27 Sep 2010, at 10:42, "Keith Doxey" <ukha@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> 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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