[LycraLout]

Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks the shub is rubbish. The devices on my home network lose visibility of each other at least a couple of times a day. Both wired and wireless. A right PITA it is too. My HTPC and NAS are both wired in. Watching a movie, it's not uncommon for the HTPC to lose visibility of the NAS, stopping the movie. I check all my other devices (phone, wireless printer, laptop etc) and see everything is searching for the network. A couple of minutes or so later, everything's good again. However, if I'm working from home, I need to reconnect to VPN, my wireless printer needs rebooting to latch onto the network again (slow). If me n t' missus are watching a film, I get it in the ear about the technology not working and why can't we just have a DVD player like everyone else, etc, etc. Never had this problem with the old modem and cheap TP-LINK router.

I did try to talk to VM support about this. They told me there was a fault in the line in my area that was due to be fixed later that month. I tried to get them to explain to me how something outside of my house can affect the connectivity of the items within the private network but she was adamant that I should wait until then and everything would be good. I still didn't understand her reasoning and as soon as I got more technical (I mentioned DHCP server), she hung up on me. Needless to say, we have passed the date of the fault fix and I am still losing my network at least a couple of times a day. Trouble is, because it comes back, it's difficult to ascertain how many times or why.

Anyway. Add my voice to the shub dissenters.

I've a day off tomorrow. Might give VM support another chance. Wish me luck.