Router upgrade to smart hub 3

[Jahz94]

Yep pretty much I just thought I'd let everyone know ☺️🙏 saves the hassle of people ringing up etc only to be told what I've just been told on the live chat 

[Kimberlin]

@Jahz94  People will still ring up though. Just like a lot of folks never bother reading through the threads on this forum and then just blindly create another thread about the same subject that has already got three other threads running simultaneously all talking about the same thing. It’ll never change 🤷‍♂️

[Jahz94]

True

[WSH]

@Colin_London You’ll find that the “never pay more than a new customer…” is not any old "new customer" but a new "Halo" customer.  The statement is not worth the paper it's written on.  Trust me, I’ve already been there!

By the time you’ve paid for Halo it will probably be cheaper to wait for them to appear on eBay/Amazon etc.  Certainly, the EE Smart Hub Plus router, which I believe this is based on, can be got from there already.

[Kimberlin]

@WSH  and as you and I are aware, there are already several dozen (probably!) threads on this forum about Halo3 and the whole ‘you’ll never pay more than a new customer’ guff just waiting to be searched out and read 🙄

[WSH]

Actually, if you all want a good laugh, ...

I've just spotted that they are still charging £100 for an SH2 on the website.  Last time I checked, you could get them on Amazon for £20.

[Kimberlin]

@WSH  SH2, £4.38 plus postage on the bay of e.

You forgot to mention, that if you buy a SH2 off BT for £100, you can also buy a WiFi disc for a bargain, £100 to complement. 🤣 Oh, and there's £9.99 postage.

[bobpullen]

Fair enough - I forgot about the end device limitation to 2x2. Also I did not know that the Smart Hub 3 works on 160MHz channels (does it really?).

@Colin_London - yep, almost certain it will operate at 160MHz as the EE hub does. Whether or not it broadcasts at 160MHz is dependent on the use of DFS channels though which is largely outside of your control. If competing regulatory traffic is detected on a DFS channel, then the hub will drop back to 80MHz until it's 'safe' to switch back.

Also of note, is that the SH2 is limited to the lower UNII-1 5GHz channels (36-48), whereas the newer EE hubs support the whole gamut.

[zulu17]

Looking at te Bt web site

User Guides are available  from links (current attime of posting)

https://www.bt.com/help/user-guides/broadband-and-wi-fi-devices/bt-smart-hub-3

https://www.bt.com/content/dam/bt/help/device-guides/ug-bt-smart-hub-3-fttp.pdf

https://www.bt.com/content/dam/bt/help/device-guides/ug-bt-smart-hub-3-fttc.pdf

[Colin_London]

So we can see from this that, unlike the Business version, it does indeed have a Digital Voice telephone socket.

It also covers three 5GHz ranges:

5150-5350	Channels 32-64 Indoors
5470-5725	Channels 96-144 DFS/TPC
5725-5850	Channels 149-165 SRD