Virgin Media Discussion Thread

I had VM for 5 years in West London. For nearly 4 years it was good, full speed during day and late night, 50% for a few hours a night which was ok. Last few months of it was truly awful. At times would drop to less than 2mbps (was 120mbps at the time), with ridiculously high ping rates and windows of 10-20 seconds of no connectivity. This was echoed by others in area. I would only ever get full speed between 2am and 7am, and evenings was unusable.

VM had no plans to fix anything. Moved to Infinity now, get full speed all day and night, cant see any traffic management etc. Less headline speed but a far more consistent connection.
 
Can someone recommend me a router/modem to replace the virgin superhub and a homeplug.
It is virgins 50mb fibre optic which is going to be increased to 100mb.
Thanks.
 
HPTL7 said:
Can someone recommend me a router/modem to replace the virgin superhub and a homeplug.
It is virgins 50mb fibre optic which is going to be increased to 100mb.
Thanks.
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I recently just did this. I put the Superhub in Modem mode and bought a Asus RT-AC68U and also got myself some Devolo 1200+ homeplugs.

My previous homeplugs was Devolo 200 and I could get around 40Mb with them, so maybe 500/600 would give around 100Mb?
 
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current package is

TV - M+ / Broadband 50Mb / phone M

payed the £164 for the 12 months line rentel and im paying

only £16 per month for the above at the moment :) seems like a good deal compared to a few people on here
 
Spacedeck said:
I recently just did this. I put the Superhub in Modem mode and bought a Asus RT-AC68U and also got myself some Devolo 1200+ homeplugs.

My previous homeplugs was Devolo 200 and I could get around 40Mb with them, so maybe 500/600 would give around 100Mb?
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Those homeplugs are quite expensive.
Would it be better if i just bought 20m rj45 cable and somehow get it downstairs?
 
I use to have a network cable out the window to the floor below, worked a thousand times better than homeplugs did in that house.
 
Depends how neat or messy you like things to look. If you can drill through the floor / walls, it would look better. For me it would have been routing it all along the skirting boards which I decided would look pretty ugly.

It will be a better connection all round.

Check this thread out: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18690712

They currently give you a chance to win some of these, but this ends tomorrow so get your name down. Also these ones are a little cheaper then what I bought.

It could also be an idea to purchase some homeplugs from a retailer in which it would be easy to go back for a refund should they not meet your expectations.
 
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HPTL7 said:
Can someone recommend me a router/modem to replace the virgin superhub and a homeplug.
It is virgins 50mb fibre optic which is going to be increased to 100mb.
Thanks.
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Latest superhub is pretty decent, the AC version, had no issues with it in a 4 bed house. Cost £20 quid to upgrade to it. Its fast too. :)
 
Spacedeck said:
I recently just did this. I put the Superhub in Modem mode and bought a Asus RT-AC68U and also got myself some Devolo 1200+ homeplugs.

My previous homeplugs was Devolo 200 and I could get around 40Mb with them, so maybe 500/600 would give around 100Mb?
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Can I ask what's the advantage of changing the super hub into modem mode and using a router?

Edit: also got the develo 500. 4 of em. Get around 300 to 450 throughput. Smashingly good.
 
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Cavallino said:
Can I ask what's the advantage of changing the super hub into modem mode and using a router?

Edit: also got the develo 500. 4 of em. Get around 300 to 450 throughput. Smashingly good.
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Better wifi with using a 3rd party router. The SH2ac's wifi isn't that bad though tbh.
 
Cavallino said:
Can I ask what's the advantage of changing the super hub into modem mode and using a router?
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You tend to get better wi-fi range and speed (buy something with external aerials) and a lot more functionality. VM go to people like Netgear and ask them to adapt an existing model and strip out advanced functionality so it's easier to support and simpler for customers, and make it for a budget.

What you can get out of an Asus router running Merlin or WRT is huge amounts more functionality as well as better signal, running on faster, more stable hardware that can handle a lot more going on at once.
 
I see ok thanks.

I have multiple WiFi points in my house sharing the same SSID.

Basically like this.

SuperHub 1 in office.
Devolo500 WiFi Plug downstars in living room
Devolo500 WiFi plug upstairs in landing.

To be honest, I could turn off the SH1 WiFi and should still be ok.

Any guides or opinions on this?
 
Steampunk said:
As you've already got signal strength covered, do you need any of the extra functionality from a proper router? If not, then there's probably no need to change to one.
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Yep I agree with you I think.

Just curious if there was any lets say, ethernet routing advantage by moving to another router rather an using SH as the modem and router.
 
I_M_Weasel said:
Is it possible to wirelessly connect a tivo box to a superhub?
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I don't think the Tivo has wireless. That's why when you use one for watching TV on remote devices or remote programming/control via a tablet/phone app, the instructions are to use an ethernet cable to connect the Tivo and the Superhub together.
 
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