[ALUG] BT Home Hub

[mbm]

Please, please, anyone using a BT Home hub do yourself a big favour and
stop right now. Go out and buy a decent router that BT don't control. I
spent some long time earlier this year playing with the hub and
everything that I found bothered me (and others with whom I
corresponded). The is a crippled Thomson router which is locked to BT's
network. They routinely update the software remotely without your
agreement. You can lock it down to prevent this, but frankly why bother
- just buy a decent router.

I documented this at
http://baldric.net/2007/01/22/bt-home-hub-and-the-gpl/. That post also
points to comments from me (and many others with similar experiences -
see Kai Robinson in particular) on a good site called homehubblog. See
for example
http://www.homehubblog.com/2006/12/23/christmas-present-from-bt/.

Mick

>Ill have a look when I get home, but Ive done exactly the same thing
>as you and I can access my apache webserver ok. The only slight
>difference is that I use dydns name instead of IP address but this is
>the same.
>Also I had no idea it was possible to access the BT home hub
>management interface from the internet. That is rather worrying
>considering how often it resets itself and port forwarding rules
>disappear,