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‎07-29-2011 10:35 AM

I was about to purchase a HPPhotosmart printer CN245B but on checking feedback from others it seems that many people have experienced difficulties if they also use a BT Homehub. Have contacted BT but they admit to not knowing anything about printers. Since I have a HomeHub 2 I am loathe to buy a printer which I cannot use at it's best. Anybody have a soliution, please?

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‎07-30-2011 09:56 AM

Honeslty, BT Home Hubs are not exactly "standard" routers.  They have a bunch of custom firmware that printers don't seem to like.  These are not the only routers with this problem, many ISP-supplied routers are the same way.

 

The surefire solution is to keep your BT Home Hub and buy a standard router to put in line with it.  Get a Linksys or Netgear, attach everything to it and it will work fine.

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