VM 20 > 30 meg upgrade

Khaaan! said:
DDNS is working fine here, I am using my own router of course so I guess you could do that unless you've gotten rid of your old router?
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Yeah I've got a WRT54G with DD-WRT on there, it's been fine tuned over the past 4-5 years with settings etc but it's starting to struggle with the fast internet, I think 30Mbit maybe on or past its limit...

Annoyingly I only just got a gigabit hub for my NAS, if I waited a few weeks I wouldnt had needed it :rolleyes:
 
MouseMat2004 said:
Yeah I've got a WRT54G with DD-WRT on there, it's been fine tuned over the past 4-5 years with settings etc but it's starting to struggle with the fast internet, I think 30Mbit maybe on or past its limit...

Annoyingly I only just got a gigabit hub for my NAS, if I waited a few weeks I wouldnt had needed it :rolleyes:
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Ah fair enough!
 
i went from 10MB L to 30MB XL. Hub will be delievered on Tuesday. Luckily the rollout for faster upload has already been done in my area so i should be 30mb down/3mb up down as of tuesday.
 
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I want to upgrade too, signed up to VM back in November. Currently paying £20 a month for I am not too sure how long more as the welcome discount. I think it then goes to £30 a month, so if I got the upgrade from 20mb to 30mb for the one off £30 fee then will my monthly bill be less ?? it seems like everyone has a lower monthly tariff.
 
Just checked the VM site and it says the 30mb service is £28.50. So I really should get the upgrade rather than continue to pay £30 (when it kicks in at £30 a month) unless I just stay on 20mb and argue that I shouldn't be paying more money for less speed.

I also wish my upload would be a lot faster :(

 
just ordered my upgrade.
Currently on 20 meg, upgraded upload, but my Linksys WRT54G (standard) is showing its age, so hopefully the superHub will be a big improvement, looking to run lots of stuff through my PS3 (main TV) on the network, which the Linksys was struggling with.

I was funnily enough about to purchase a Netgear WNDR 3700 which I guess I no longer need to do?
 
ademcg said:
just ordered my upgrade.
Currently on 20 meg, upgraded upload, but my Linksys WRT54G (standard) is showing its age, so hopefully the superHub will be a big improvement, looking to run lots of stuff through my PS3 (main TV) on the network, which the Linksys was struggling with.

I was funnily enough about to purchase a Netgear WNDR 3700 which I guess I no longer need to do?
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Depends on what you class as an improvement, the superhub isnt that 'super'.

My Wrt54g with tomato far exceeds the superhub with features.
The so called superhub is just a standard hub really. Lots of complaints about it on various forums. Wont do WOL (Wake on Lan), Nat is having lots of issues.

They are working on a firmware update which will enable you to disable the hub side of the things and allow you to plug in your own router :) but this is going to be sometime towards the end of the year :( until then im sticking with my 20mb and trusty wrt54g
 
I think the ideal solution at the moment is to do the diy hack mentioned earlier (to add your router to the hub's DHCP reservation via a custom IP (192.168.0.10) then add that to the hub's DMZ and finally disable all features of the hub) and use your router as the switch/router and hub as the modem only.

Then it will be back like the old days, just with a faster connection :D

I wish the hub supported horizontal orientation though, looks odd stood upright!

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It does get quite warm so I don't really want to tuck it away inside the cabinet :/
 
First of all, what wrong with superhub ? I saw many peoples are complaints. But, my superhub is no issues at all, no problem with wireless as I get full whack speed of 31Meg download and 3.14Meg upload on laptop, my smartphone mobile wi-fi, and my pc wireless without any ethernet cable. The ping also very good at the lower range 13ms to 15ms.

Why you need to wait for new firmware and put a router onto the superhub ?





 
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That's because the hub was designed for standard use and at present didn't aim for the more advanced features of a full on router (people have mentioned them above) - You'll be perfectly fine as this is all that you need but others need more.
 
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