Thread: Virgin to give new Superhub out.
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Old 01-02-2011, 11:02   #533
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Re: Virgin to give new Superhub out.
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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
Would you like to look at your majority again?
Yeah, hands up, didn't really do much research on that one. Probably more accurate to say about half do, half don't. As the most commonly available one seems to be the D2 loaded with 1.00VG firmware, not quite as big an issue as it could be.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
Overzealous interference avoidance algorithm (40Mhz switches itself off if it detects any other beacons on either channel), introduced with the new driver since build 15xxx and onwards. If you want 300mbps mode to come on and stay on, you'll need to use build 14929 or older.
I read the whole thread over on the DD-WRT forum and tried r14929. Helped a bit, but I still couldn't hit the ~12.5MB/s speeds when doing N to ethernet transfers. When I reverted to the stock firmware this was fixed immediatly.

The main reason I was using DD-WRT on the DIR-615 was to have the WAN port become another switch as DHCP and main cable modem connection is being handled by my WRT54GS v2.1. As the stock firmware supports this feature it's not a problem.

To be fair I'd like to try going from one wireless N device to another using the same router, see if there are any speed improvements on LAN file transfers even allowing for the throughput drop.

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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq View Post
I think I must have got my connection in the last month during which VM were still handing out free DIR-615's. I've since bought another dozen off eBay mind you.
I must admit I'm tempted to stockpile them as well, make my whole network backbone out of them. Small, efficient and easy to see LEDs. Most of the devices on my network don't do/need Gigabit speeds so as long as wireless N achieves 100Mbps to keep up with the "Fast" ethernet ports there's no real problem; being able to handle 50Mbps cable is going to be the thing. That Ralink SoC should be up to the task... still need a seperate 50Mbps capable modem though.

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And to put the boot in a little more with the Super Hub... I had two PCs connected at Gigabit speeds, with one streaming 1080p HD content to the other, outputting through HDMI with hardware decoding done on the graphics card.

I was getting some lag on the video playback and assumed I'd bought the non-"High Speed" HDMI cable. Actually no - dropping in the DIR-615 solved this problem, too.

In my experience the Super Hub fails at every single thing, ethernet or wireless. I've used dozens of different types of router and it is by far the worst. Why VM are "upgrading" customers to this turkey is completely beyond me.
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