Are you an fibre with BT, or ADSLx?

I had BT Fibre but I'm getting a better deal with Plusnet at the same speeds.

In that case you will not get an engineer visit, and so you won't get an Openreach modem.

If you had the BT Home Hub with an Openreach modem then that's fine. If you just had a Home Hub and that connected straight into the filter you have a choice.

1) Just use the Home Hub in the same way, with the username and password changed to Plusnet. If you do this you may as well save the postage for the PN router by cancelling it.

2) Request an Openreach modem to be sent to you (free) for use with the Plusnet router.

The wireless performance is ok for a freebie router, but mine has a problem whereby if you don't allocate a static IP and register the MAC address on the expert bit, then the IP that's dished out by the DHCP server on the router doesn't have any connectivity! Very annoying!

That sounds like a faulty router.

In reply to a post by bsod:

The wireless performance is ok for a freebie router, but mine has a problem whereby if you don't allocate a static IP and register the MAC address on the expert bit, then the IP that's dished out by the DHCP server on the router doesn't have any connectivity! Very annoying!

that must be the Tecnicolor one as there is no option to do that on the sagem, as I said above, a pretty basic router./

I've got the Sagem router, and the static IP thingy is hidden away in the expert user control panel. Only seems to be a problem with the wireless connections, as wired doesn't exhibit the same problems. It's a bodge but it's something I can live with, as I can't be bothered to tinker further.

The entire router stopped responding when I changed the default IP range when I set it up and I had to reset it back to factory settings, and y'know, that router that was made on Friday evening at 4.59pm had to go somewhere, and it was me that got it!

Edited by bsod (Thu 29-Oct-15 19:08:08)