Firmware Change
 

I noticed today that my supper hub two has rebooted with a different firmware (V1.01.29), which i think is a older version?
Also a conciqence of this is that I have lost my third upstream channel that a gained a few weeks ago. I opted out of the virgin Media Wi-Fi scheme and wanted to know if this was linked?

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It is an older firmware and is due to severe issues found with the newer firmware. Nothing to do with you opting out, everyone is in the same boat.

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Thanks good to know, any way to regain the third upstream?

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No and you almost certainly don't need it.

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I can only go on my own experience but after gaining the third upstream channel Xbox live performance improved for me as it did when two upstream channels became available.
I did recently get round to updating the firmware on my Linksys EA4500 from the classic to the newest version as i learned how not to activate the cloud shenanigans! I will put the improvement down to that thanks.

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The third upstream channel was added to support the Public WiFi and was thus withdrawn when the service flow was removed.

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Is the public wifi ever gonna take place or has it been shelved?

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Not that I've been formally told, but it'll roll out eventually. Too much publicity has passed for it to be permanently shelved. At least imo.

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I did, I don't know whether it was just buggy firmware but my upstream regularly went up to 2MB/sec (16mbits) when I had 3 channels.

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Damn, mon General. I just didn't think to test upstream speed when I had 3 (sometimes 4) channels. I did notice from the stats that the symbol rate stayed the same and I remained on 16QAM.

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I didn't notice any change to my upload speeds when I had 3 upstreams.

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tbh I didn't look at the symbol rate, I did however post a couple of screen dumps at the time showing the 3 channels and one of them being qam64. I'll see if I can dig them out.

Edit: here you go, me and Kush are towards the bottom.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ls-page-4.html

I also posted a screen dump from my desk showing my torrent client overlay of the upload speed as well (half way down)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ls-page-7.html

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Did you keep the operational config? Because you can still get 20 meg if that's what you're set up for at 16QAM and just about on a single channel.

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What was the modem mode issue with the newer firmware anyway? I never noticed any issues.

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On SH2 v2.01.03 firmware, modem mode users with certain routers that used the Broadcast flag (you can Google that!) but didn't allow a choice of Broadcast flag found itself on the wrong side of what would be accepted as a request to be connected. I.e. they couldn't get a WAN IP address.

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that is what is weird. The increased upload speed wasn't a one off. When I first noticed it I sat there watching it thinking it was burst speed and waited for it to come back down to its usual 1.42MB/sec but it sustained 1.6-1.7MB/sec for well over 1 hour. I still thought it was a one off but it happened time and time again during the day and night for well over a week. The weird thing is that my config didn't change, it stayed at 152/12. I can't remember whether I took a screen dump of it but I defo remember telling Igni about it in the thread thinking that he could shed some light on it.

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You're not going insane in the mind, I noticed this too. I was seeing higher upload to multiple sources on and off until my firmware rolled back.

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They'll be reactivating Public WiFi in the trial area (Reading) in the not too distant future. I'll specially look out for this, assuming they reinstate the 3 or 4 upstream channels.

Btw afaik, with an updated/corrected firmware.

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This shouldn't be more than two lines of code to fix. But then Q.A., regression testing, change control and all that faff...

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Indeed. Yet look how long it's taking. I'm informed that there is a new firmware coming and that the Public WiFi trial will be rescheduled for the Reading Area. Date not communicated to me.