BT Home Hub 2 & BQM?

Hi, i have just signed up to BT Home Essentials 2 Unlimited on a social tarrif, also given a VOIP phone with the package so i can make free calls to UK mobile & UK geographic numbers so i might as well use it. However i would like to know if i can use the BQM with the Home Hub 2?

A search turned up this post which kind of works, setting a device (my android tablet) to DMZ in the Hub settings.
HowTo - BT Smart Hub 2 with BQM

Which as you can see gives alot of latency (ignore solid red as my ip address had changed & i didn't update it in the BQM) BQM

However there is nothing wrong with the broadband as this is how it looked using my Zyxel modern router on BT Fibre previously BQM + Zyxel on BT Fibre

Edited by Natty (Sun 28-May-23 03:36:10)

In reply to a post by Natty:

Hi, i have just signed up to BT Home Essentials 2 Unlimited on a social tarrif, also given a VOIP phone with the package so i can make free calls to UK mobile & UK geographic numbers so i might as well use it. However i would like to know if i can use the BQM with the Home Hub 2?

A search turned up this post which kind of works, setting a device (my android tablet) to DMZ in the Hub settings.
HowTo - BT Smart Hub 2 with BQM

Which as you can see gives alot of latency (ignore solid red as my ip address had changed & i didn't update it in the BQM) BQM

However there is nothing wrong with the broadband as this is how it looked using my Zyxel modern router on BT Fibre previously BQM + Zyxel on BT Fibre

If the pings are actually being DMZed to a wi-fi device behind the router, you will be adding wi-fi latency which that graph would explain. You can do this but you'd need to definitely have something connected via an Ethernet cable. Do make sure if you do this you have a good firewall on whatever device is responding.

I don't *think* the Home Hubs let you respond to ICMP Pings so I don't think that willi work. lIf you do find a way though let us know

seb