VM remotely change settings?
VM posted an update here.
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...te/td-p/386049 note the first paragraph, they plan to remotely change a setting specifically the ip flood protection. Am I the only one who doesnt like the idea of VM remotely controlling my router when they feel like it? |
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I don't think they will actually be remotely controlling every superhub but I imagine it will be a small software update to each of the modems.
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It will be done via firmware I expect and as they are actually Virginmedia owned equipment then I expect they are well within their rights to update the equipment as they feel fit as per the Terms and Conditions, Section H, paragraph B & C.
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I don't mind what they do with my router, as long as the internet works.
If it can be improved by them changing settings remotely, then that's just a bonus :p: |
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Oh, I am so totally signing up for this! :D
No really. I've moaned about it long enough, maybe me and my qualifications can help fix it somehow. |
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Apart from the pingtest.net packet loss error showing up because the IP flood detection suspect's it as dodgy, what other packet loss issues does the SH have? Reading this from the link zeke posted suggests other packet loss issues on top of the ones were aware off. Or have I missed something |
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However once transfered to a full release there are always going to be a few things that were either missed or didnt appear in testing. For most people the superhub will work fine but of course there are people that will have issues and some people that find the superhub doesn't do what they want it too. The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few :) |
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Without wishing to hurt anyone's feelings, I think a lot of issues are caused by people not understanding how it operates.
I've had two issues - both of which were easily solved by a change to the settings. |
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How cone ip flood protection on the regular hub is fine?
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The current firmware "works", but not well. This is exactly the reason more advanced users are finding bugs, and why running with the firewall/flood protection off is seen as an acceptable solution. Asking more technically adept users to be the first batch of testers seems like the logical solution, although your reaction seems to suggest you've missed that entirely. Quote:
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I agree, and I want to help both of those. Unfortunately Mark Wilkin hasn't even opened the PM which provides my details (SH hardware MAC etc) yet so either he has sufficient testers already or is just too busy. ;) Quote:
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I am technically adept thanks, and have taken part in many trials.
I don't think it is down to poor testing at all, but just the way some people are expecting it to work like their stand alone router isn't how VM envisioned the super hub I think. Poor wireless functionality? I have had mine running for months and not had a single drop out. Am sure you would like to help but when testing firmware you would usually be given some scripts to follow then provide feedback. Although in the case of customers doing some final testing then they would just be looking for a bit of feedback concern the firmware after it was already internally trialled. |
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Has anyone had a reply of mark on the VM forums about the trial and been accepted?
I got a reply saying he wants me to take part and asked me for info, problem is I already gave him the info so I replied again asking if he needs me to resend it but had no reply since. To stephen I think you have grossly misunderstood the scope of the problems with the superhub. Some things affect a few users such as loss of ping capability and the low timeouts, some affect more users such as lack of features like DDNS and PAT, others affect many users such as a buggy ip flood protection and poor wireless performance, also if its true the superhub can only handle about 400mbit on its ethernet interfaces then that is also a major problem. Some of these bugs I would expect to be picked up in trials, they things that are not as rare as made out. Port forwarding for instance is very buggy, and its not much of a trial if noone uses port forwarding. Or are you suggesting the superhub is not designed to do what alternative routers do? Incidently if I do get on this trial I will go out of my way to look for problems, I will deliberatly stress the thing, use it in ways I wouldnt normally use it just to look for bugs, that to me would be been a good tralist. |
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