Ah sorry thought it still worked.

If you have firmware prior to IPv6 it'll work, as you can turn off IPv4 DHCP and job done, any upto date box will still assign an IPv6 address to devices and there ends up no data throughput, with around 25% of devices resolving an IPv4 address as expected (but it's total pot luck whether the IPv4 or v6 gets assigned first). If the IPv6 gets resolved, then IPv4 does not resolve to the main hub and you get 169 self assigned IPs.

If BT allowed you to turn off IPv6 it would solve all of this, alas, they don't offer that.

EDIT: Misread post as HH6, should be fine on HH4!

Edited by ukhardy07 (Thu 14-Dec-17 23:32:42)

Does this apply to the Home Hub 4?

In reply to a post by BatBoy:

Does this apply to the Home Hub 4?

I am totally wrong - I misread the number! Let me edit my posts out!!

AFAIK HH4 does not support IPv6!

Easy tiger, he has a smart hub as well.

Ahhh - must be where I got that from

I�m gonna try this on a Hub 4. Will do as a temporary measure but could u guys recommend me a decent modem/ router that will give near Ethernet speed over Wi-fi. £100 max new or second hand

@ukhardy07 don't remove your posts as that info is very useful as I for one would not have known that about the smart hub and pulled my hair out trying to use it as WAP until you posted that. Thanks

Right folks we have a result. Sort off!! https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest/15133581474... this is over wifi on my laptop with a hub 4 wired in.

Now on my iPhone and iPad etc I'm not getting over 10mb. Whats happening now?

Could it be time to accept that wifi is inherently flaky, and just stop speed testing ?

Is this lack of wifi speed actually stopping you from doing anything apart from recording and accurate speed test ?