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Originally Posted by Stephen
What they mean by the longer wireless range is wireless N, it has a bigger range then G which was on older wireless devices
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You say that, but in my experience my old WRT54GS sporting the slightly taller high gain antennas has way, way more range than the Super Hub in exactly the same place (although not running at exactly the same time) and that's only wireless G, without afterburner mode. Judging from this, I'd guess that with the regular antennas the range for G is about the same as the Super Hub on N devices. Which is
very poor, relatively speaking. The Super Hub has worse range/performance than my D-Link DIR-615 D2, as a side note.
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Originally Posted by callanish
Would I be out of line if I said that the superhub doesn't seem to be stable enough right now to risk an upgrade? I keep reading about dropped connections from the superhub and all sorts of other issues.
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No, in my opinion you wouldn't be out of line. The one I've got is exceptionally underwhelming. I've been debating the advantages of 30Mbps and wondering whether it's worth risking changing my old Ambit 250/Linksys WRT54GS v2.1 main router setup and losing not only DD-WRT features but also wireless stability and connection throughput. For example, with one device connected wirelessly and none of the other things connected to the Gigabit ethernet switched on, I was averaging ~300kb/s on BitTorrent clients. Popped the old rig back in and speeds skyrocketed up to ~2500kb/s which for 20Mbps is where it should be.
Maybe you might get lucky and be sent one that works fine right out of the box, but if you're even slightly worried about it then wait a while until VM (or whoever "improves" their firmware) sort out the numerous bugs. I'm eager to see the modem only version and hope it isn't just a pipe dream.