BT Wifi Discs, Anyone used them?

[Trevatanus]

Phoned BT last night as my contract is about to expire, had intended to move to Sky, but was not totally sold on the idea.
Ended up extending my contracting and I now have a "Hub 2" and "discs" winging their way to me.
My only issue with BT was that the signal in my bedroom tended to be quite poor and watching Youtube videos etc on the smart tv was not reliable.
BT assure me that this will fix the problem, anyone used the setup yet?

[aponting389]

Ive got BT Whole home system with 2 extra discs (3 in total) and it really helps get the signal around the house. So, if we are talking about the same system, which I think we are, then yes its really good. You can also control it with the app and set up guest wifi and some other bits that are quite neat

[craig1912]

aponting389 said:

Ive got BT Whole home system with 2 extra discs (3 in total) and it really helps get the signal around the house. So, if we are talking about the same system, which I think we are, then yes its really good. You can also control it with the app and set up guest wifi and some other bits that are quite neat

Me too- works superbly now they’ve sorted the firmware out.

[Marcellus]

I was having issues in the office with connectivity (BT Hub), was using Poweerlines and still having issues, a month ago bought and now use the Wholehome discs and not had an issue since.

Yesterday my "travel laptop" was still picking up the old powerlines/old hub and was having a mare when main office computers were plugging away perfectly, switch laptop over to disc and worked perfectly.

So, yes I think they're worth it!

[Big E 118]

BT Whole home?

Yes, we moved recently and I've bought this system as we don't have ethernet as we did in our old house. We have 5 discs covering an old Victorian home of 4,000 sq ft and it provides a good signal throughout the whole house. It's easy to set up and has some good administrative tools so you can block certain devices at certain times (like kids phones/iPads overnight).

There are plenty of other systems on the market and reviews online.

[jimmsy]

I've also got BT Whole Home. 3 disks on quite a long house with thick walls (some former external ones with brick) with foil lined insulation (bad for blocking signal) and I've got full WiFi signal throughout the house. No issues, slowness, errors, restarts or anything over the 3 months so far.

[Trevatanus]

Cheers guys, according to emails, the kit will be sitting at home waiting for me when I get home from work tonight, so I'll report back.

[eatontrifles]

As above, it's very good and just works with great speeds. I have three disks and use one of them as a Wifi>Ethernet bridge for my TV/media cabinet in combination with a cheap switch.

[Paul 2000]

I've got the BT Complete WiFi setup (SmartHub 2 and 2 black discs). Works a treat and I get great wifi coverage everywhere in the house.
I like this new system as you don't have to have one disc ethernet connected to the router as I did with the WholeHome setup.
It costs a monthly £5 subscription, whereas the WholeHome discs you purchase outright. I think you're meant to return the discs if you decide to cancel the service. One thing with the SmartHub 2 is that you can't split the 2.4 and 5.0Ghz channels like you can on the original SmartHub, but so far I haven't had any problems.

[tombar]

Can't add much else except to agree that they work like a charm - reliable and effective. I'd been gazing at them in John Lewis and a random bloke came up to me evangelising about them - that sold me! Good luck with them.

[NormarkSuperswede]

Client had serious issues with BT .She pays a fortune and it all came to ahead at Christmas .They upgraded her speed. new router and 3 x UFO's . Now they are happy. It works well

[GT03ROB]

I was skeptical but bought anyway. Works great very happy.

[Bikerjon]

Looks like BT have realised what a winner the wholehome system is and have now integrated it into the smarthub and branded it "complete Wi-Fi". Good move plus it reduces the amount of equipment.

[kieranbennett]

I have the 50Mb fibre package from BT with original home hub.

I use a Steam Link in my garage to mainly use an app called Zwift for cycling on a turbo trainer but its also good for streaming video whilst working on cars and bikes but get no wifi out there (and the steam link doesn't like wifi at the best of times, but I've only ever tried it on wifi in my old house with an old Virgin Superhub)

My office is in the furthest point in the house from the home hub and also gets no wifi signal. 18months ago I purchased three TP-Link 1200mps powerline adapters which are working well most of the time but I see occasional dropouts which normally means I have to reset the master powerline adapter (especially painful when working over a VPN and everything shuts down) I've also noticed i get quite a lot of lag when gaming on my main pc in my office.

BT are offering an upgrade to 67Mb with the complete wifi package, I don't really need the upgrade in speed but interested in the complete wifi. Would it solve eh issues i currently have with the powerlines?

Does anybody use the complete wifi system for streaming video & games and how does it do?

[Marcellus]

kieranbennett said:

I have the 50Mb fibre package from BT with original home hub.

I use a Steam Link in my garage to mainly use an app called Zwift for cycling on a turbo trainer but its also good for streaming video whilst working on cars and bikes but get no wifi out there (and the steam link doesn't like wifi at the best of times, but I've only ever tried it on wifi in my old house with an old Virgin Superhub)

My office is in the furthest point in the house from the home hub and also gets no wifi signal. 18months ago I purchased three TP-Link 1200mps powerline adapters which are working well most of the time but I see occasional dropouts which normally means I have to reset the master powerline adapter (especially painful when working over a VPN and everything shuts down) I've also noticed i get quite a lot of lag when gaming on my main pc in my office.

BT are offering an upgrade to 67Mb with the complete wifi package, I don't really need the upgrade in speed but interested in the complete wifi. Would it solve eh issues i currently have with the powerlines?

Does anybody use the complete wifi system for streaming video & games and how does it do?

Streaming whilst zwifting all the time with discs no issues and more robust than powerlines!

[kieranbennett]

Marcellus said:

Streaming whilst zwifting all the time with discs no issues and more robust than powerlines!

Thanks, order placed this afternoon.

[Podie]

Another happy user here.

[anonymous-user]

What sort of network speeds do you guys get on the discs?

I'm considering extending my wired network (consistent 100MB/s) which would involve an amount of annoyance to get the cabling in place, but current wifi or powerline seems to be c8-10MB/s

[Leggy]

Bought 3 last week. Have tried everything else going.
These are the best.... so far.

[wjwren]

Have 3 . They were utter rubbish to start out with. That was a year ago. Now they are solid, not had an issue since the newer firmware came out 10 odd months ago.