BT's previous Home Hub, it must be said, had many flaws. The styling was off, the box was too big and for Vista users just getting on the internet was a Herculean task. So will the new Home Hub 2.0 fare better?

The new router is a lot smaller than the previous iteration. We would say around half the size (no we didn't bother with the tape measure). It promises 802.11n connectivity (this is draft N by the way), a power-saving mode (to please eco-botherers), simpler software, more Ethernet ports and better security and access controls.

Setting up the hub is easy enough, especially when BT insists on sending over one of its top engineers over to install it for you. But we did watch them attentively and from what we discern, if we were to do it ourselves it wouldn't take too much effort. The device seems to log itself onto the BT network relatively fast.