BT Home Hub 1.0 Lights

Hardware Questions and Recommendations
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Hi, I have the 1.0 version of the BT Home Hub, I adore the nostalgia of it as it used to be something that fascinated me when I was 6 years old as my Gran has BT Broadband, Anyway I am allot older now and having one my self now i am older and can experience it a whole lot more is lovely but it isn't perfect, I have it on and the phones synced however only 3 of 5 lights are on and I cant find anyway to get them to come on so I was wondering if with your extensive knowledge you know I way I could get the Internet and Broadband Light to come on even though there is no connection, In Telnet there is a setting which allows you to change the lights thats how I got the Phone light to come on however no matter what I try I cant get the Broadband and Internet light to stay light and I really want it to be perfect! Really hope your can help.

All Best
Callum

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What's the intented use case?

If you just want blinkenlights, gut it and install LEDs as you want them.

Functionally, I don't see much value in this device (which apparently isn't supported by OpenWrt to begin with), BCM6348+BCM4318, 8/32, ADSL2+, two 100MBit/s ethernet ports, USB1.1. If it were supported, the best it could do, would be a slow 802.11g access point.

As you mentioned, you apparently aren't even using its ADSL2+ modem, nor have an internet uplink - and from "Telnet there is a setting which allows you to change the lights thats how I got the Phone light to come" I gather that you aren't using it for your phone(s) either, so as far as I get it, you only use it for its decorative value <-- gut it, put blinking LEDs where you want them, problem solved.