About to move to Virgin 50MB...
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My Superhub wireless has been terrible, so much so that I've sacrificed wireless N speeds to be able to use my WRT54GL again.
Our main PC is hooked up with a wired connection but our wireless clients, phone and laptop etc., are running on G.
Our main PC is hooked up with a wired connection but our wireless clients, phone and laptop etc., are running on G.
Don't like the superhub I have, not a patch on my ADSL modem / router (Belkin N1 Vision). The wireless performance is noticeably poorer and it crashes more often.
However, it's not a disaster, and I'd rather have my 50Mb connection and a super hub than a slow BT ADSL connection and my old Belkin (however, if I could have my old router and 50Mb connections I'd be very happy!).
However, it's not a disaster, and I'd rather have my 50Mb connection and a super hub than a slow BT ADSL connection and my old Belkin (however, if I could have my old router and 50Mb connections I'd be very happy!).
Not a huge fan of my Superhub - roll on 'bridge mode' firmware so I can get my DIR-655 back in service !
Main problems for me are that DDNS is not supported and wireless is - at best - flaky....on top of that, I guess you can argue there is no Qos functionality, and it is entirely at the mercy of VM.....as an example, some clever souls managed to ssh in and activate modem-only functionality = VM locked this down within days, causing many 'Souper'hubs to be black-marked....
Still, for everyday use, it does a job - not all bad, by any stretch, but depends what features you are used to and expect. For me, the most annoying thing is that you cannot do anything about it (e.g. use own router, custom firware) as the SH is the only device VM will allow use of to access their faster speeds
Main problems for me are that DDNS is not supported and wireless is - at best - flaky....on top of that, I guess you can argue there is no Qos functionality, and it is entirely at the mercy of VM.....as an example, some clever souls managed to ssh in and activate modem-only functionality = VM locked this down within days, causing many 'Souper'hubs to be black-marked....
Still, for everyday use, it does a job - not all bad, by any stretch, but depends what features you are used to and expect. For me, the most annoying thing is that you cannot do anything about it (e.g. use own router, custom firware) as the SH is the only device VM will allow use of to access their faster speeds
Well I've been running VM's 50Mb for the best part of a week now and on the wired side it is fantastic. Speedtest says I get 50.4 and my downloads have been coming down over 5MB/s. But it didn't take long to notice the problems people were reporting about the wireless, not so much the range but the speed was up and down. One minute I could be downloading at 2MB/s then the next 200kb/s. Speedtest would show a different result every time. So I've put in a WRT54GL with tomato, whacked the signal strength up to 84ma and now I get full signal throughout the whole house and I get a steady 20Mb connection at all times.
It's 50 megabits, which works out at 5 megabytes.
You should end up with a connection that is theoretically capable of 5 megabytes download and 500 kilobytes upload.
Erm, no. 50 megabits/sec is 6.25 megabytes/sec.
My modem actually 'syncs' at 53000000 bps which is 6.31809235 megabytes and I get absolute full speed:
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I've had the superhub for about a week now (with 100mb) and frankly it is a load of toss.
Speeds on wired vary from 65mb to 97mb, and wireless is a waste of time unless you are sat in the same room.
I have done all the usual shenanigans like turning of ipflood and firewall, I even ran the dir615 with DDWRT off of it for wifi, but that made little difference. I have to reboot on daily basis and it's doing my head in.
When it works it's great, Downloads hitting 8-9MB/s, but I can't be assed with the faffing about. My old 50mb modem + router setup was better, but virgin took the modem when they fitted the superhub. (left the dir615 though)
If anyone can point me in the direction of a replacement cable modem/router that will work with virgins 100mb then please do.....cost is irrelevant.
Getting this tonight depending on the server:
But is has been as high as 97Mb, and as low as 24Mb.
Speeds on wired vary from 65mb to 97mb, and wireless is a waste of time unless you are sat in the same room.
I have done all the usual shenanigans like turning of ipflood and firewall, I even ran the dir615 with DDWRT off of it for wifi, but that made little difference. I have to reboot on daily basis and it's doing my head in.
When it works it's great, Downloads hitting 8-9MB/s, but I can't be assed with the faffing about. My old 50mb modem + router setup was better, but virgin took the modem when they fitted the superhub. (left the dir615 though)
If anyone can point me in the direction of a replacement cable modem/router that will work with virgins 100mb then please do.....cost is irrelevant.
Getting this tonight depending on the server:
But is has been as high as 97Mb, and as low as 24Mb.
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I have no idea how to do that, I do not subscribe to any usenet service.
Whether the speeds are ok or not, it is the dropping out and constant rebooting that is really driving me scatty.