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Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

Hawkmoon19 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:49:05 GMT

Hey guys I am finally upgrading from an old HH5 to Smart Hub 2 on Halo 3+. Have some setup questions if you can help ?

1. We have tons of connected devices in our family - is there a way to setup the new Smart Hub 2 to mimic the network name and password of the old hub so that I don't have to reconfigure each and every connected device or is there no way of avoiding that ?

2. I seem to remember that to get my Sky box working well I had to set up my Hub 5 so that instead of automatically allocating a device to the 2 or 5 ghz bands these two bands appeared as two separate networks - can someone remind me how to do that on the new Smart Hub 2 please ?

Thanks all !

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

licquorice — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:53:13 GMT

Yes, you can rename the SH2 SSID and password to match the HH5, however, you cannot split the WiFi bands, they will both have the same SSID

Devices aren't allocated a band by the hub, the device itself connects to its preferred band.

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

Hawkmoon19 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 07:57:32 GMT

Oh right, thanks for that, hope that doesn't cause issues for me then as I remember some folks were saying it's better to put the Sky box on a separate band - wonder why BT removed the option to separate the bands?

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

licquorice — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:04:06 GMT

The splitting of the bands has been a bone of contention and discussed ad nauseum on the forum for a number of years.

As far as I'm aware, the only possible problem is that Sky Q doesn't like the hub using channel 36. Simply set the 5Ghz WiFi to a different channel.

Give the new hub the network name of the 2.4Ghz WiFi of the old hub, devices will see both bands with that name and choose which is the best signal.

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

Hawkmoon19 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 08:05:56 GMT

Thanks

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

Hawkmoon19 — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 09:34:41 GMT

@licquorice p.s. - when I run BT speed test/diagnostics it is recommending to turn on smart wireless - is that recommended ?

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

imjolly — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:00:58 GMT

@Hawkmoon19

I would use a wifi analyser on mobile and select best channels for you then set hub wireless and not use smart wireless

Re: Smart Hub 2 questions - setup

licquorice — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 11:25:57 GMT

I would definitely NOT turn on Smart wireless