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Originally Posted by sniper007
So to extend my understanding of this, can you tell me what "bonded" actually means? I assume when the downstream channels are "bonded" this means they are locked permanently during installation by said engineer to ones superhub?
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It just means that your data packets can arrive on any of the channels you see in your modem stats. The engineer fixes nothing - the hub negotiates the connection (ie which channels will be used) each time it reboots.
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Originally Posted by sniper007
Why is the upload not bonded? Why do we have more than one channel for download at all? Do we need them? What does additional channels do? Why also only one for upload? Are they looking to improve the upload by adding channels?
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A single downstream channel can provide 50Mbps but that is shared with all the other users in your local area (probably > 200 users) so to get any sort of performance multiple channels are essential. Upstream bonding is needed and will be coming. Eventually. An upstream channel can only deliver 18Mbps.
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Originally Posted by sniper007
Finally, is there anywhere else I can read about what all of the signal to noise ratio, power levels and modulation stuff all mean? Not that I can affect it, just interested really.
Thanks a lot
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Seph wrote some good stuff here -
http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...ER/td-p/148068
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Originally Posted by robf
One thing I've noticed with my Shub is that it needs rebooting every few days to get the performance back and allow all wireless devices to continue connecting properly.
Please tell me that the new firmware has the ability to schedule reboots...?
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It doesn't.
You may find that you don't need to reboot of course which is what you should really be hoping for. I don't need to reboot R36 but I only use WiFi for phones and tablets so ymmv.