looking to get virgin in my new place (have trusted dean0!)
wanted to ask about powerlines with superhub3, is there any that dont function properly or ones to avoid? Just looking to get internet to the living room (from upstairs bedroom), seen a few with "wifi clone" and people saying it doesn't work with their router (but no mention of the router used..)
So any help would be lovely! I think im after just a simple set up, router > powerline > powerline (+wifi) > 5port switch.
We have had the Virgin superhub2 for 2 years and it has worked very well with powerlines, more recently I installed TP Link AV1200 wifi and the wifi speeds were excellent.
Yesterday I installed the Virgin Superhub3 kit, what a shock I got. The download speeds dropped from 50-80Mbps in our lounge to less than 1Mbps! I spent most of the day trying to sort this out following some posts on forums. This included resetting the adapters to factory defaults with no benefit.
In the end I contacted VM who initially denied that I could roll back to the Hub2 but eventually someone said to try it and it worked, the Hub3 is packaged for return.
I wish I could tell exactly which component was at fault. The wifi from the Hub3 was better than from the Hub2 which is to be expected but not nearly as good as using the powerlines. I could have tried putting the Hub3 into modem mode and attaching my Asus RT-N56U but I couldn't find the power cable!
TBH mate id keep it because they are trying to work on fixing the issue with a firmware update. Though its been long in waiting for the fix. I don't have experience with SH3 in Modem mode but im sure ive seen other people still experiencing issues in modem mode because the puma chip still exhibits same issue in modem mode as its the SOC processing the packets.
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