Unlock Your BT Home Hub Totally FREE (V1.0 & now also V2.0)
Update 28/03/10 – Please see the latest comments for a solution to unlock the BT Home Hub V2.0A! This original article below is for the original BT Home Hub V1.0
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 (Updated May 2009):
http://www.box.net/shared/1816u8ciye
A friend of mine has successfully tested the firmware on a redundant Hub and it's working perfectly.
GOOD LUCK!
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Comments:
Comment from admin
Time June 8, 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.
Comment from admin
Time October 18, 2008 at 6:02 am
This doesn’t work with the new V2 black hub which came out after this article.
Comment from admin
Time August 31, 2009 at 3:31 am
I still haven’t come across anyone who has unlocked the newer V2.0 hub as yet although I will update if the situation changes in the future. I will have a redundant V2.0 hub soon as I’m transferring to Sky Broadband. I’ll spend some time really looking into it.
Comment from admin
Time November 4, 2009 at 2:48 am
Unlocking the Home Hub V2.0:
No, unfortunately I still haven’t found a full solution YET, but I do have some important information towards unlocking the BT Home Hub V2 so far. Apparently the BT Home Hub V2.0 is really a Thomson TG797N Router that’s been specially flashed with the BT firmware in a similar way to V1.0 of the BT Home Hub which is really a Thomson 7G Router.
If anyone can get the Firmware for the TG797N router then we might be in business, unfortunately finding this is easier said than done and yes, I’ve already tried Thomson’s official website. If anyone has a TG797N, then can you backup your firmware and/or is their a flashing utility? If so, please get in touch.
I’m still investigating and will update if I find out any more. If anyone else has had any success, please let me know.
Comment from Sharkface
Time January 13, 2010 at 1:02 pm
Home Hub v2.0 unlocking:
http://www.psidoc.com/articles.php?article_id=2
Looks like a lot of effort, but apparently it works.
Comment from admin
Time March 28, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Unlock the BT Home Hub V2.0 (V2.0A):
Many thanks Sharkface, it’s the 1st reasonable information I’ve seen about unlocking V2.0A of the BT Home Hub.
The information looks good and I’ve even read about a few people’s success already, but you can also brick your router if you’re not very careful. It involves soldering directly onto the hub’s motherboard board and you’ll need to buy various resisters to make a JTAG flasher cable yourself, although you can also buy a ready made solution. Even though the ready made JTAG cable is designed for a Linksys router, I suspect it can also be used on the BT Home Hub 2.0 although it’s untested so don’t blame me if you waste your money, please click here for full details. This ready made JTAG cable costs £7.99 at the time of writing.
The Home Hub 2.0A hack procedure will obviously void any warranty as soon as you open up your BT Home Hub V2.0 (so use entirely at your own risk) and you must ensure you flash it using the correct firmware or the hub will certainly be bricked. Because of the risks involved, I don’t recommend you attempt this unless you’re using a redundant BT Home Hub V2.0A, also because you’re connecting the JTAG cable to the parallel port of your PC there’s obviously a slim chance of damaging your port, so to be 100% safe I’d also use an old redundant PC too. Please remember that PJCNET cannot be held responsible for any damage caused by following these instructions or in fact the instructions in the main article above regarding V1.0 of the BT Home Hub, use entirely at your own risk.
I’d be very interested to hear from people who have attempted this hack with any success or failure stories.
Here’s the link again as given by Sharkface above:
Comment from PsiDOC
Time December 1, 2010 at 9:27 am
Hi all, I know this is a bit of an old topic, however I it’s still valid as I do get a bit of traffic from it.
I just wanted to let you know that the HomeHub a can now be unlocked without Jtag and without opening up the router. It’s relatively easy to do, takes approx j minutes and requires no soldering skills.
Here’s the link:
http://www.psidoc.com/articles.php?article_id=7
B.R. PsiDOC
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Comment from admin
Time June 8, 2008 at 2:07 am
I will monitor the download link, if it reaches it’s maximum bandwidth due to high demand, I will add another link shortly. If you do have download problems, please inform me at admin@paranormal-marketing.com so I can rectify the problem ASAP.