Phoenix and bt home hub

[skyking]

Hi
i have been trying to join a online session but fail everytime am on bt and i have even rang them up and they cant fix the problems, i have tried alsorts now but with out luck
i can log online on there and see all the sessions but cant get in, anyone else having/had the same problems?

[challis349]

I had these problems with home hub for ages, I had to make static ip address, turn the router firewall off, open the ports, and half the time it still doesn't work, its a crap router,

Silly question, but, have you checked the box on phoenix for, automatically open ports

[nigelbrogan]

Bt home hubs require port forwarding, you will have to get them to open the ports for you.

[challis349]

Bt home hubs require port forwarding, you will have to get them to open the ports for you.

Why, you can put ip address in and open the ports yourself

[skyking]

I had these problems with home hub for ages, I had to make static ip address, turn the router firewall off, open the ports, and half the time it still doesn't work, its a crap router,

Silly question, but, have you checked the box on phoenix for, automatically open ports

hi
yeah i have checked the automatically open ports, also i have turned the router firewall off, the only thing i have not done is made a static ip addy and open the ports

[nigelbrogan]

When they very first come out you had to get bt to do it. It must have changed.

[Nipster]

BT were very naughty in the begining and left what amounted to an exploit within the Homehump OS that allowed them / anyone to configure all manner of nasties...they ended up removing it (eventually).
If it's an old style white HH, flash it back to a Thomson 7G, which it basically was before BT corrupted it.

[Mslater]

You can do it yourself but it should work fine if you get phoenix to open the ports for you.

BT routers do have some odd problems though, they tend to get quite a bit wrong. For example they get the machine names and IP address confused so its no use as a DNS server. They can't accept a change to their in built DYNDNS without corrupting. Various other problems not to mention my major gripe that it turns your house into a BT hotspot and shares your broadband with anyone it can.

I went back to BT after they promised infinity before Dec 31st. Still no sign of it here even though the exchange is enabled !!!

Best thing to do with a BT router is throw it away - get a Netgear they tend to be much better and easier to handle.

Better still get a cable supplier !

[challis349]

My home hub isn't a hot spot, I didn't sign up to it, don't want anybody and everybody being able to connect

[golddust]

No problem at all with my BT Home Hub. Have made no alterations to it.....arrived and I plugged it in.....done.

[challis349]

Mine is the old white one, the black one seems to be better

[nigelbrogan]

Draytek router all day long, we use them for work. Very good routers and not a bad price. Also the net gear routers are superb for there money.

[DarkTherapy]

Setup a DMZ in the router to your computers LAN ip address, all connections will bypass the routers port redirections and firewall..

[Dedcalm]

With the home hub 2 there were 2 versions the A and B, B was built by Siemens and is reliable (I have this one), the A was built by another company and is flaky (my dad has one of these).
The 1st thing i did when I dropped Tiscali/Talk Talk (useless muppets IMHO) was to configure the BTHH to ensure it did what I expected and nothing more. I did allow BT FON though as I am often out and about and being able to use other hotspots for free is useful. No-one has ever to my knowledge used my FON hot spot...

To configure Phoenix to work you have to go into the advanced configuration, application sharing and create a game/application name for Phoenix Simulator with a definition;

Protocol: UDP
Port range: 26500 - 26505
Translate to: 26500 - 26505

assign this Phoenix Simulator to the PC you want to use and voila...

[rhysduk]

Ditch the home hub and get a decent router that you an fully manage yourself!