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KIA said:
They save 10p per unit by getting rid of the LEDs. BT homehub is just a bad.
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10p???!!! :rolleyes:

Just tested WiFi - and it really is as bad as people say - in fact it's utterly terrible.

I'm going to miss my DIR-615 with DD-WRT. The most reliable piece of home-grade networking equipment I've ever owned, but you cant stay on 100Mb Ethernet forever :(. WiFi used to be completely 100% stable & graphs used to be 100% straight.

Just tested the superhub and the WiFi graphs look like the ECG of someone having a heart attack.

Cant wait to get a new router, this superhub will literally be put somewhere where the sun doesn't shine.
 
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Wifi is terrible and the superhub seems to fall over a lot if you have lots of devices connected (think I have >30 or something ridicilous when I last checked).

I have a n56u and n66u running the show in my place, love it :)
 
asim18 said:
10p???!!! :rolleyes:

I'm going to miss my DIR-615 with DD-WRT. The most reliable piece of home-grade networking equipment I've ever owned. WiFi used to be completely 100% stable & graphs used to be 100% straight.
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Yes, great piece of kit. I have not been brave enough to flash mine though, wish I was, it is just running Virgin's firmware.
 
On my RT-N56U, I can look in the bandwidth monitor and see what bandwidth is being used, but not by which user. Is this possible to view?

Also is there a way I can cap Internet upload & download speed for specific users?
 
Lots of small packet drops

Just wondering if anyone might know why this has started happening on my VM 100 connection?

It's been perfectly fine for months and the last week I've started getting lots of small packet losses.

I'm using the superhub in modem mode with a RT-N66U. Nothing has changed on my side for the last few months though so I'm just wondering what could cause this.

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I've had enough of VM now, online gaming is just terrible no matter what time of the day (60MB). I've been promised that it will be fixed by the 27th of march but I don't hold any hope.

My son works for BT so we can get Infinity for free.
 
My goodness me. The price I agreed for my new contract was £35.99, but got a new contract to sign which said £42.

So I call 150, follow the options and get put through to a billing team in Manila, Philippines. I start the conversation by saying "I agreed £35.99, but the contract says £42, could you send me a new contract which reflects the correct agreed amount".

After exactly 37 minutes of him going round and round in circles trying to convince me there isn't a problem, I think enough is enough so I proverbially tell him to suck it and ask him to put me through to retentions in Britain.

The great thing is, he put me on hold while he spoke to retentions himself, who apparently told him "We can see the note which says £35.99, so just tell him to bin the old one and we'll send him a new one with the correct figure".

Almost 40 minutes going in circles with the clueless monkey and in the end they do the one and only thing I requested!!!

I really stuck it to him, made him feel utterly useless, "thanks for wasting my time" etc.

**** outsourcing. :mad:
 
Brig said:
Just wondering if anyone might know why this has started happening on my VM 100 connection?

It's been perfectly fine for months and the last week I've started getting lots of small packet losses.

I'm using the superhub in modem mode with a RT-N66U. Nothing has changed on my side for the last few months though so I'm just wondering what could cause this.

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I'm experiencing similar to this at the moment, except some of my yellow spikes are going above 140. Last night was just hopeless. I will upload my pic later. Am in the WA3 postcode.

EDIT: Here's my graph.

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You can see last night was just unworkable and its starting to go a bit dodgy now. I expect that the traffic management policy is kicking in now.
 
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