Virgin Media Discussion Thread

alex24 · 2025-01-08T18:32:54+0000

wez68 said:
I,m getting 1 gigabit installed on Friday , and it’s using the XGS /PON technology, what are people’s thoughts on this set up please ?

Hub 5x sucks, impossible to ditch it right now due to above. When I get a ‘maintenance window’ (requires wife approval) I’m going to try and put my router back to a double NAT setup to maybe get some of my sanity back. We’ll see if that breaks anything.

Caged · 2025-01-08T18:37:51+0000

Can you configure custom LAN routes on the 5X? Best option for people desperate for no-NAT is either to spend the money on the XGS-PON sticks and flash the serial into them, or overlay something like the A&A L2TP tunnel over it.

wez68 · 2025-01-08T19:09:16+0000

alex24 said:
Hub 5x sucks, impossible to ditch it right now due to above. When I get a ‘maintenance window’ (requires wife approval) I’m going to try and put my router back to a double NAT setup to maybe get some of my sanity back. We’ll see if that breaks anything.

When you say the 5x sucks do you mean general wi fi performance or lack of configuration options etc ?

alex24 · 2025-01-08T19:54:06+0000

wez68 said:
When you say the 5x sucks do you mean general wi fi performance or lack of configuration options etc ?

Big lack of configuration options mostly, but also for some reason intermittent DNS performance/resolution that I never had before. Problems accessing my local network server intermittently. More issues with bufferbloat as well from my testing. The general responsiveness of the connection feels off from time to time on multiple devices, I think it may be that.

Probably more jarring as I had a MikroTik router which had so many options, so going to a Hub 5x was like going from engineering a skyscraper to building duplo.

I never tested the WiFi. I’m sure it’s alright and they will give you range extender pods I think, can’t comment on those.

There is a DMZ option so that’s what I’m going to try and use with my old router. If that works well, then I may upgrade the router to one that can handle the throughput (old one can’t I think). May get one with SFP input so if modem mode never comes I’ll go the route of an XGS-PON stick with custom firmware. It’s just a lot of expense for something VM should just support out the box.

wez68 · 2025-01-08T20:55:08+0000

alex24 said:
Big lack of configuration options mostly, but also for some reason intermittent DNS performance/resolution that I never had before. Problems accessing my local network server intermittently. More issues with bufferbloat as well from my testing. The general responsiveness of the connection feels off from time to time on multiple devices, I think it may be that.

Probably more jarring as I had a MikroTik router which had so many options, so going to a Hub 5x was like going from engineering a skyscraper to building duplo.

I never tested the WiFi. I’m sure it’s alright and they will give you range extender pods I think, can’t comment on those.

There is a DMZ option so that’s what I’m going to try and use with my old router. If that works well, then I may upgrade the router to one that can handle the throughput (old one can’t I think). May get one with SFP input so if modem mode never comes I’ll go the route of an XGS-PON stick with custom firmware. It’s just a lot of expense for something VM should just support out the box.

Thanks for the reply , well I will find out this Friday , hopefully modem mode appears at some point .