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The A-Z of Why the Internet is Shit

H is for ...

HomeHub, The

Not actually a part of the internet, but something you use to access the internet via BT's once wondrous service.

If you live in England, you may have seen the HomeHub adverts; they feature that guy that played Nick in the TV show My Family. Once funny and wanted by all sorts of shows for his innate ability to play an idiot, the man is now stuck working in dodgy BT commercials advertising the crappiest router you're ever likely to use in your life.

The HomeHub is touted for its greatness. It's a wireless router and phone package, and is now available in a sleek black that is possibly meant to deter you slightly from the inherent shitness of it. It's a well-known fact that black equipment is more visually pleasing and explains the healthy abundance of blackness in the world: people from various nations, some types of plugs, TV screens when they're off, the night sky.

And then you get this atrocity. Because the HomeHub, which is supposed to have a fantastic wireless range and super fast connection speed, is actually a piece of crap which continually tries to reset its IP address for no reason, booting people off of the network, and randomly degrades the wireless connection for no apparent reason; at times, I will have a wireless connection speed of 54MB/s, only for it to degrade in the space of two minutes to 1MB/s, causing me to have to disconnect and reconnect. It also has multiple access points, and I personally have found that only one of these offers a connection you can access; the other two just simply serve to be another apparently available access point in your list of wireless networks.

The HomeHub, from BT; an unwieldy piece of shit in an otherwise nice-looking case.

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	The A-Z of Why the Internet is Shit H is for ... HomeHub, The Not actually a part of the internet, but something you use to access the internet via BT's once wondrous service. If you live in England, you may have seen the HomeHub adverts; they feature that guy that played Nick in the TV show My Family. Once funny and wanted by all sorts of shows for his innate ability to play an idiot, the man is now stuck working in dodgy BT commercials advertising the crappiest router you're ever likely to use in your life. The HomeHub is touted for its greatness. It's a wireless router and phone package, and is now available in a sleek black that is possibly meant to deter you slightly from the inherent shitness of it. It's a well-known fact that black equipment is more visually pleasing and explains the healthy abundance of blackness in the world: people from various nations, some types of plugs, TV screens when they're off, the night sky. And then you get this atrocity. Because the HomeHub, which is supposed to have a fantastic wireless range and super fast connection speed, is actually a piece of crap which continually tries to reset its IP address for no reason, booting people off of the network, and randomly degrades the wireless connection for no apparent reason; at times, I will have a wireless connection speed of 54MB/s, only for it to degrade in the space of two minutes to 1MB/s, causing me to have to disconnect and reconnect. It also has multiple access points, and I personally have found that only one of these offers a connection you can access; the other two just simply serve to be another apparently available access point in your list of wireless networks. The HomeHub, from BT; an unwieldy piece of shit in an otherwise nice-looking case.