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Old 31-07-2012, 13:34   #11
kwikbreaks
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Re: Happy Superhub User

I upgraded to 60 and had to swap out my VMNG300 for a Superhub.

I got put on R36 in the initial mass trial and consider the user interface to be acceptable now - R30 and earlier it just seemed to be a random mess of settings but at least now there is some organisation.

It is still lacking in many basic features - DNS override and DYNDNS support to name just a couple of pretty low end ones but most of theses things can either be worked around or done without. IP reservation is far better now with no need to manually enter MACs and without the constant reboots - talking of which they've even added a reboot option now which is handy if, like me, you've hidden yours away a bit because you don't appreciate Xmas lights all year round and don't want gaffer taped kit on view.

Wireless range is very poor with mine even though I took advantage of having a spare Superhub so I could drill the casing and fit external antenna connectors knowing I could put it back to standard without any tampering being obvious. Being behind my sofa doesn't help it of course but my other routers coped with that just fine.

I've stuck to using it in hub mode with the firewall disabled and 145Mbps WiFi and it hasn't screwed up yet.

The main reasons I haven't gone modem mode are...

I prefer a one box solution.

The alternate routers I could use are not really suitable for 60Mbps - one is old and is probably underpowered and I'm not fond of my DIR655 which I consider to have been a bad buy.

I can put up with the WiFi as I have a Fonera+ which covers most of the places the SH can't reach.

So Happy? Not really but I can put up with it and don't feel inclined to splash the cash I'd need to to get something significantly better
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