'Modem mode' VM firmware imminent ? Looks like it.....

kevpuk · 8 Sep 2011 at 10:12

Good news for VM peeps, looking to circumvent the woeful SouperHub (sic).....seems the R30 firmware beta testing is more or less done, and successful, and we may get FW pushed out next week :eek:

last post here

waso_dude · 8 Sep 2011 at 12:13

Spoke to them last night, and its 100% still on for next week! I hope it fixes the wireless problems!

kevpuk · 8 Sep 2011 at 12:24

Yep, yep, although - for me - *just* want the Modem mode and then I can ignore the rest of the SH's (many !) failings, with my trusty DIR-655 back in service

Ryan111 · 9 Sep 2011 at 01:45

I have had R30 firmware since 31-08-2011. Runing really well in modem only mode paired with a RT-N16 with Tomato

Loque · 9 Sep 2011 at 02:39

wireless is better, but still far from perfect. I still get disconnections every couple of hours.

rexehuk · 9 Sep 2011 at 09:05

Been running R30 for a week or so... only in modem mode mind you. Only thing I could measure is that it hasn't dropped out, which it didn't before anyway.

Hooked up with a DIR655 with no issues.

thebandit · 11 Sep 2011 at 20:45

I got on the R30 trial becuase I was sick of the Superdud falling over (Multiple T3 and T4 errors and wireless refusing to connect). I am pleased to report my router has not skipped a beat since I got the new firmware pushed. My hub used to crash and die every day, but its been up and running solidly for a record 10 days now !. I can even use my wireless internet radio again and unbelievably it even worked all the way out in the garden this weekend!. Whilst this is all very good news, it does make me fume that VM have been fobbing people off for the last 8 or so months pretending there was nothing wrong. Still, I would even go as far as saying I might not bother plugging in a seperate router at all... until I come across something in the quite basic feature set in the SH I need and it doesn't have.

kevpuk · 12 Sep 2011 at 16:57

thebandit said:
...<snip>...Still, I would even go as far as saying I might not bother plugging in a seperate router at all... until I come across something in the quite basic feature set in the SH I need and it doesn't have.

For me, that is DDNS and port-forwarding limitations....
Roll on the 'Big Push'

Al Vallario · 12 Sep 2011 at 17:16

Broken Hope · 12 Sep 2011 at 17:32

Al Vallario said:
Could one of you lot with the R30 firmware in modem-only mode run some traceroutes to see if there is any latency between your router and the SuperHub? For some reason my traceroutes were showing ~15ms latency between my old modem (non-SuperHub) and Linksys router. Very strange.

Using a SuperHub on its own with the R26 firmware until the new firmware is pushed out

No problems here <1ms latency between the hub and my router.

Ryan111 · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:22

Code:

Tracing route to bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  Tomato.Workgroup [192.168.10.1]
  2     9 ms     7 ms     8 ms  10.188.240.1
  3     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  newt-geam-1a-ge240.network.virginmedia.net [80.6
.129.13]
  4    14 ms    11 ms   13 ms  exe2-core-1a-pc111.network.virginmedia.net [80.6
.128.193]
  5    11 ms    15 ms    12 ms  glfd-bb-1a-ge-210-0.network.virginmedia.net [195
.182.178.129]
  6    14 ms    11 ms    11 ms  glfd-bb-1b-ae0-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.172.6]
  7    13 ms    11 ms    13 ms  glfd-tmr-1-ae5-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.10
5.159.46]
  8    16 ms    12 ms    11 ms  tcl5-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
185.78]
  9    13 ms    15 ms    12 ms  212.58.239.249
 10    14 ms    15 ms    13 ms  212.58.238.149
 11    15 ms    13 ms    15 ms  virtual-vip-231.thdo.bbc.co.uk [212.58.241.131]


Trace complete.

All looks good here

Al Vallario · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:39

Ryan111 · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:50

Al Vallario · 12 Sep 2011 at 23:19

Ryan111 · 12 Sep 2011 at 23:59

Fair point, not sure what you can get from that but better safe than sorry!

londonbairn · 13 Sep 2011 at 07:57

What makes this any different from turning off wireless and connecting a WLAN access point (which I have done and works perfectly well)?

Duke · 13 Sep 2011 at 08:32

Because you are still using the built in router, which some people don't want. This makes it just like the old Cable Modems again.

Loque · 13 Sep 2011 at 09:54

rafster said:
What makes this any different from turning off wireless and connecting a WLAN access point (which I have done and works perfectly well)?

nothing. a lot of people don't know how to do that though.

londonbairn · 13 Sep 2011 at 10:18

Duke said:
Because you are still using the built in router, which some people don't want. This makes it just like the old Cable Modems again.

Which is what disabling wireless and using a Wireless access point does, which has been available in all firmwares? :confused:

Why is R30 a sudden ephiphany? it's been well documented with loads of people that disabling the wireless works fine. I have been running like that for ages now, no dropouts, I have loads of devices connected on WLAN and Ethernet with no issues...

Loque · 13 Sep 2011 at 10:21

rafster said:
Which is what disabling wireless and using a Wireless access point does, which has been available in all firmwares? Why is R30 a sudden ephiphany? it's been well documented with loads of people that disabling the wireless works fine. I have been running like that for ages now, no dropouts, I have loads of devices connected on WLAN and Ethernet with no issues...

Yes, you're right mate, but like I said, theres a lot of people, who don't have a clue how to disable wireless, or anything else in the routers setup, so for them, it's a much simpler solution, to simply put the router into "modem mode"
It's nothing new, I've been doing the same for weeks now, it's really just aimed at the "technically dumb" people