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joveonmars · 21-02-2011, 00:52

I agree the superhub has less wifi range than your previous setup, the Netgear WNR2000 router for me. IMO if you didn't upgrade to it this time you would have next time you changed your broadband speed.

It should see us through all the way upto 400Mbps so we'll have it around for a while so some options i can think of are;

1, wait for the firmware update that will allow a third party router to be used with better wifi range without double NATing,

2, lay cat 5e cables through your house, this i've done but is the most difficult option & not an option for many,

3, use homeplugs (200Mbps), these work well as long as they are on the same ring main you can get maybe 20-80Mbps (huge overhead) low latency. (plugs operating on seperate ring-mains lower throughput performance)

4, having a wifi dongle plugged directly into a pc or laptop can suffer reduced range being so close to electrical equiptment, try having the dongle on a 1-1.5m usb cable away from the pc/laptop. Built-in laptop wifi can suffer similar signal problems that will have an even harder time with the superhub's shorter range. If it's a phone, find out where it's aerial is & avoid covering it with your hand.

The superhub's auto wifi channel feature isn't so super & tends to sick to channel 1, other people in range using the same channel as you can lower your range so manually choosing a channel that isn't in use could help.

I've found for maximum throughput with available signal, setting your superhub wifi encryption to WPA2-PSK(AES) and any devices to use WMM (WiFi Multimedia) will allow fastest speeds at least with N (300Mbps) otherwise you may be capped to G speeds. (using 145Mbps mode can apparently trade throughput for increased stability)

You may already know some or all of the above, hope it can help.

21-02-2011, 00:52	#5
joveonmars Inactive Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Liverpool UBR sprt Services: Virgin 100, VHD Size M+ & Phone Size M Posts: 15	Re: Not so Superhub I agree the superhub has less wifi range than your previous setup, the Netgear WNR2000 router for me. IMO if you didn't upgrade to it this time you would have next time you changed your broadband speed. It should see us through all the way upto 400Mbps so we'll have it around for a while so some options i can think of are; 1, wait for the firmware update that will allow a third party router to be used with better wifi range without double NATing, 2, lay cat 5e cables through your house, this i've done but is the most difficult option & not an option for many, 3, use homeplugs (200Mbps), these work well as long as they are on the same ring main you can get maybe 20-80Mbps (huge overhead) low latency. (plugs operating on seperate ring-mains lower throughput performance) 4, having a wifi dongle plugged directly into a pc or laptop can suffer reduced range being so close to electrical equiptment, try having the dongle on a 1-1.5m usb cable away from the pc/laptop. Built-in laptop wifi can suffer similar signal problems that will have an even harder time with the superhub's shorter range. If it's a phone, find out where it's aerial is & avoid covering it with your hand. The superhub's auto wifi channel feature isn't so super & tends to sick to channel 1, other people in range using the same channel as you can lower your range so manually choosing a channel that isn't in use could help. I've found for maximum throughput with available signal, setting your superhub wifi encryption to WPA2-PSK(AES) and any devices to use WMM (WiFi Multimedia) will allow fastest speeds at least with N (300Mbps) otherwise you may be capped to G speeds. (using 145Mbps mode can apparently trade throughput for increased stability) You may already know some or all of the above, hope it can help.