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Originally Posted by Hot_slim_buxom
So it seems the Virginmedia connection is rock solid, just a question of the superhub handling that connection? I would be happy if I was VM as the connection is always great but the CPE is a let down.
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Absolutely. This has been my experience; the fiber optic service with co-ax from the cabinet is fine, very reliable, but the superhub is a poor CPE. Whereas the VMNG300 is the best for now even though it's about 3 years old.
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Originally Posted by Hot_slim_buxom
DMZ to the switch it would be ok but of course NAT twice is not ideal.
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Not so much.
The main reason I have the switch is because a lot of LAN traffic is regular (for example, media centre devices streaming from a NAS, files being backed up from laptop to desktop) and I don't want it affecting internet speeds now they're becoming fast enough; the switch has auto-negotiation so is "smart" enough to pass packets from one port to another internally rather than looping back through the router, although the router does DHCP of course, plus a bunch of other useful features courtesy of DD-WRT.
Rest assured that proper LAN traffic (i.e. controlling one PC with another by high bandwidth VNC while copying a dual-layer DVD backup) will easily break the superhub. Average users probably won't fall foul of these problems, but if you're using the superhub as a router it'll probably freeze up quite a lot as mine did.
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Originally Posted by Nopanic
I am so glad you have pants on in that photo ..
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It wasn't me that took it; I was busy going from room to room making sure everything was working correctly. If I'd taken it it wouldn't just be a quick grainy phone camera shot.
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Originally Posted by Masque
Why it works perfectly for the majority and the is a very large majority of satisfied customers. |
For about the dozenth time (not that I think you'll see it as I'm guessing you have me on ignore by now) it works for most customers because most customers aren't putting it under any serious pressure. Which is confusing; I always figured if you were willing to pay extra for 100Mb, it'd be so four people at once could stream HD content while someone else uploads photos etc.
It's odd that the superhub is meant for faster connection speeds yet is weaker at those speeds than a separate modem/router setup that was VM standard three years before. Some might say it's a deliberate countermeasure to stop users downloading heavily... make the CPE freeze up to discourage them when they have a lot of network activity!
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Originally Posted by Masque
Oh yeah I forgot that you will only see complaints on this type of forum with very few people posting about having no issues because they have seen other posters getting either ripped or even posters referring to the Superhub by childish names.
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Not only bereft of a sense of humour, but also warping the facts. Charming!
If it bothers you that much and you feel like you're hitting a brick wall trying to convince people who've had hours of frustration putting the superhub through it's paces, then don't continue to contribute to the thread.
If he has me on ignore, someone repeat that so he can see it.
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Originally Posted by jb66
There was nothing wrong with the vmng300, thats why folk want it
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This guy gets it. Contrary to what Masquerade thinks, people like the VMNG300 because it's the best CPE VM have provided. It's simple, it works great, it's quick to install. If there was a better alternative I'm sure everyone would climb aboard, but neither of the crummy Netgear hubs are it.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
That's a bit of an insult to all the CG3101Ds that are working with no complaints to speak of on the Comhem network and others as they haven't been hamstrung by sloppily written custom firmware to be honest.
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Indeed. I had a feeling something was amiss the first time I logged in and got to this poorly laid out splash screen with the nice aliased red gradient jpegs which probably take up a fair chunk of the firmware file size.
