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Changing a Home Hub 5 (Type A) to Smart Hub 2

aliballibee — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:35:23 GMT

Evening

Our Home Hub 5 (Type A) has become very noisy and problematic, with multiple WiFi disconnections.

I've bought a new Smart Hub 2 privately and wondered if there was anything I should do before simply disconnecting one and plugging in the other? Any settings worth noting in the Home Hub 5 before switching over?

Thanks for any assistance.

Re: Changing a Home Hub 5 (Type A) to Smart Hub 2

licquorice — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:39:39 GMT

Turn off Smart setup on the SH2.

You can't give the wifi bands separate SSIDs on the SH2 but if you haven't split the bands on the hub 5 it might be easier to change the SSID on the SH2 to match that of the Hub5 rather than change all your devices to a new SSID.

Re: Changing a Home Hub 5 (Type A) to Smart Hub 2

aliballibee — Tue, 20 Jul 2021 21:44:55 GMT

Thanks for the super quick response,

We haven't split the bands on the Home Hub 5 and didn't give the SSID a name, so it looks like, other than switching smart hub off, it should be pretty easy.

Fingers crossed and thanks again.