Unlock Your BT Home Hub Totally FREE
In case you don't already know, a BT Home Hub is basically a Thomson 7G Wireless Router with BT firmware installed (operating software stored on the Hub). The BT firmware provides a neat user friendly front end (Hub Manager), but it disables access to masses of features normally available and forces it to connect to BT only.
If you install the original Thomson 7G firmware (flash the Hub), the BT Home Hub becomes a fully featured wireless router which is capable of connecting to any Internet Service Provider.
I only recommend you do this if you have a redundant BT Home Hub, E.g. If you have finished with BT Total Broadband completely. Flashed Hubs aren't supported by BT and you may have problems with security if trying to reconnect to BT.
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK - PJCNET takes no responsibility for any damage caused by flashing your BT Home Hub.
Original firmware and software downloads are currently being charged for on Ebay. I think this is rather unfair, so here you can download everything for free including the instructions
Download the file below, unzip it and go into the "How To Unlock BT Home Hub For A New ISP" directory and click on the "ReadMe" file and follow instructions carefully.
Here's the download link:
http://carloss.paul.diinoweb.com/files/bthub.zip
A friend of mine has successfully tested the firmware on a redundant Hub and it's working perfectly.
GOOD LUCK!
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June 8th, 2008 at 2:07 am
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June 8th, 2008 at 2:21 am
IF YOU GET INTO SERIOUS TROUBLE FLASHING YOUR BT HOME HUB:
There is an emergency flash recovery tool on the BT Total Broadband CD provided with the BT Home Hub. See \Utils\UpgradeWizard directory on your CD.
If you don’t have your CD see:
http://www.btopenworld.com/broadband/adhoc_pages/hub_firmware.html
Use this recovery utility as a last resort, only if you can’t use your hub at all after attempting to flash it. Read instructions very carefully.
PJCNET cannot be held responsible for any problems that arise from flashing your BT Home Hub. Use entirely at your own risk.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:02 am
This doesn’t work with the new V2 black hub which came out after this article.