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Has anyone tried to successfully "add on" APs to a HH in order to strengthen signal around the house? I've been given a few APs from work as we recently re-did all of our WiFi so it would be nice to have the added oomph from these APs.
Of course. How you do it depends on which access points you’re using though.
Not likely given the LAN ports on the hub are 1 Gbps.
You obv do not know what I am talking about then, the HUB 4 lets you bond the ports in Modem and Router Mode and since the last FW update it does not revert after X time.
How do you think VM did their recent 2.2Gb/s Trial on the HUB4 (hence the FW update)!
How do you think VM did their recent 2.2Gb/s Trial on the HUB4 (hence the FW update)!
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I do not think it as as simple as that, the ones who did it outside the trial had very specific kit to do it with, think it only cost £40, another uses a £300 box.
Here is a recent one with what I am reading a normal router (but not all) : General Virgin testing 2.2 Gbps - Page 3 - Cable Forum
The proper thread on this topic is on that forum somewhere.
Wan link aggregation hub4 - Virgin Media Community - 4732380
1000M 1gig Rollout getting faster - Cable Forum
Here is a recent one with what I am reading a normal router (but not all) : General Virgin testing 2.2 Gbps - Page 3 - Cable Forum
The proper thread on this topic is on that forum somewhere.
Wan link aggregation hub4 - Virgin Media Community - 4732380
1000M 1gig Rollout getting faster - Cable Forum
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Yeah I've just been reading up on that, I had no idea. It seems you need a device that supports balance-rr so it isn't as simple as using anything supporting standard LAGs. It seems that Mikrotik devices do support balance-rr and of course a Linux box would too.
On a separate note, I received a Hub 4 despite only ordering 500Mb. I had read of this happening in areas with high utilisation but I didn't know what the actual technical reason was, but after doing some digging it seems that the Hub 3 only supports 24 downstream channels whereas the Hub 4 supports 32. I haven't seen a Hub 3 to check but my 4 has indeed locked on to 32 downstream channels so I guess that's the reason. It seems to be working ok so far, although the logs do show an occasional message:
RNG-RSP CCAP Commanded Power Exceeds Value Corresponding to the Top of the DRW
Doesn't sound great, but I've had no speed problems and it's only cropping up in the logs once every 3 days or so.
On a separate note, I received a Hub 4 despite only ordering 500Mb. I had read of this happening in areas with high utilisation but I didn't know what the actual technical reason was, but after doing some digging it seems that the Hub 3 only supports 24 downstream channels whereas the Hub 4 supports 32. I haven't seen a Hub 3 to check but my 4 has indeed locked on to 32 downstream channels so I guess that's the reason. It seems to be working ok so far, although the logs do show an occasional message:
RNG-RSP CCAP Commanded Power Exceeds Value Corresponding to the Top of the DRW
Doesn't sound great, but I've had no speed problems and it's only cropping up in the logs once every 3 days or so.
Ahhhh the whole balance-rr thing sucks. My router does have a single 2.5g port that can be configured for WAN or LAN so I just need something to bridge that with the SH4 and the something needs balance-rr. I don’t want a pizza box or anything that’s overkill though.
Just wanted to check if anyone was using the TP Link Archer AX6600 on the M500 package and how it's worked out for you. Currently using a Netgear Nighthawk R8000 x6 and getting sick of performance degrading with every firmware update.
I think you should do some reading up on port bonding.
@Rainmaker What's your take on all of this? Can you suggest anything I can do to take full advantage of my connection without going nuts on network equipment? You've built your own router right? Did you set up the aggregation stuff?
It seems nuts that VM are selling a service where 20% of the service is immediately lost because the ports on their router are too slow.
It seems nuts that VM are selling a service where 20% of the service is immediately lost because the ports on their router are too slow.