Re: Superhub Firmware Beta Test
 

Just received this via pm over on the beta forum........



Phil

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Correct thread ;-)

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Wow that is a joke, what exactly have they been doing since R26 was released. Modem Mode is already there on the Superhub as people were able to activate it using SSH. So all they needed to work on was a UI for it and maybe some tweaking, but it seems they have done nothing. Don't think there is much chance of a release to everyone in June.

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Better than no modem mode at all though right ?

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Agreed. but I do also have to agree with Helix. Seems a bit of a step backwards in some respects.

Phil

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I agree with you but I'm not part of this pre-beta test, but I am in the beta test group. If they still need to make in configurable in the control panel I wouldn't say its going to be that close to release. They haven't even bothered releasing a proper statement about the early May release being delayed, they said last week that it would go out to pre testers from the end of last week and all testers from this week/ next week which doesn't seem to be the case.

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Sometimes the best laid plans go a bit awry, sounds to me as though they know the R27 release is going to be delayed hence shoehorning it into the R26 without a UI.

At least they can make sure the functionality works, maybe the delay is with Netgear in terms of the UI, who knows.

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Yeah I understand these things can take longer than expected, its the lack of communication that is annoying. The announcement in the Forums still says early May and the only update VM have given was in response to people asking where the update is stating a pre-test would be happening this week (as in earlier this week) and a full test the following week. This is now no longer the case but they haven't bothered to update all the beta testers with this news.

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I don't think it's better at all and have asked them not to send it to mine.

Because of quirks with altering the SuperHub IP I just changed all my stuff I wanted on fixed IP to use the 192.168.0 range and my old router was left as it was. Setting everything up to use a router again and configuring that router will take time. As my old router is non-gigabit I'll also need to physically move a NAS to run it off one of my gigabit switches. All of that will take time and effort and I'd like to choose if and when that change is made rather than it being at the whim of some VM twonk at some unspecified time tomorrow. A short outage while a new firmware is loaded is acceptable but not a change that will leave me with nothing working at a time when it will not be convenient to me to sort out

It goes from bad to worse. These idiots are past a joke.
<=== Looks like my crap catching skills will be handy yet again

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So will virgin now send a souperhub with a dlink 615 to get a wifi signal that doesn't drop?

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That would be unsupported at present, not sure what the situation will be with modem mode though.

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I got the same PM, I guess I will plug in the superhub and let them change the setting as I do have the vmng300 as fallback if it goes tits up.

As far as my opinion goes it seems a very odd way of going about adding the feature, I dont know whats been going on since R26 but the GUI change shouldnt be diffilcult to the point it needs all this time to implement. Having to contact support who work weekdays only to toggle the setting I can fully understand kwikbreak's stance on this.

Notice the pattern of doing firmware updates on fridays?

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using bridge mode now. ;)

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How's that working out for you?

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all I can say at the moment its working, not done any real tests yet. Its picked up the same WAN ip as my vmng300 was so the graph in my sig will show the live latency, the bit before red is vmng300, the bit after is superhub in bridge mode, so can compare.