BT Business Hub

I purchased one of these to use on my BT fibre connection as it has guest wifi.

This works well but I really want it to have a password on it . I wondered if anyone managed to work out a way to do this , either on this router (there doesnt appear to be any visible option!) or a modified one?

Many thanks in advance!

As far as I know, you cannot put a password on the Guest WiFi.

What is annoying on the latest firmware though, is that channels can no longer be freely selected. 1, 6, 11 only whereas in te past, I have used 1, 5, 9, 13 - the small overlap worked well, now we are seeing throughput reduction with three or more WAPs on the same channel.

Not being able to password it seems odd. I can understand why you can't on the FON or whatever the other thing is that is open to the public, but that surely doesn't have the bandwidth to support a fully functional guest login?

It is odd ... looking at my one there are two options that be turned on/off independently

1 Guest WiFi definitely no password

2. BT Public Wifi - which acts as a chargeable hotspot for anyone and free for BT Broadband customers

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

but that surely doesn't have the bandwidth to support a fully functional guest login?

Traffic priority is given to the non-public SSID. As these are Hubs intended for businesses such as car showrooms and coffee shops I can see why having no password would be convenient for visitors.

There were a few coffee shops near me that use to print off on the order receipt a random unique password / code which expires after a set time period, that allowed people drinking in the shop to use their wi-fi while there.

Paul

In reply to a post by Oliver341:

In reply to a post by RobertoS:

but that surely doesn't have the bandwidth to support a fully functional guest login?

Traffic priority is given to the non-public SSID. As these are Hubs intended for businesses such as car showrooms and coffee shops I can see why having no password would be convenient for visitors.

Since when? They are provided to every BT Business Broadband customer - why would BT develop a product for such a small market and supply it to a very large one?

In reply to a post by MHC:

Since when? They are provided to every BT Business Broadband customer - why would BT develop a product for such a small market and supply it to a very large one?

I was just giving a couple of examples of BT Business customers for whom public wi-fi could be a useful facility. I wasn't saying these are the only types of businesses getting these Hubs, obviously many types of businesses have these Hubs, and many will not be utilising the public wi-fi facility.

I thought the public thingummy was available to anyone on BT Consumer who allowed its availability on their own BT/(& Plusnet?) connection. At about 500kbps.

Isn't it the same on BT Business? The Hub 2 seems to be available on both.

Guest network is different, presumably considerable bandwidth.

Edited by RobertoS (Sat 06-Jun-20 01:32:39)

I was sloppy with my terminology, I was referring to Guest Wi-fi. Business Hub does also have BT Wi-fi (which has access restrictions for public users).