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Zoom7000 · 29-08-2012, 16:44

I've just signed up for Virgin Media 60MB Broadband (and Phone, although I won't be using it at all except for receiving calls). I've been with BE for my broadband and despite receiving a very decent service, it was practically a no-brainer continuing to pay £32.86/Month for Internet (ADSL2 @ ~10Mbps) & Phone, when VM can offer me up to 60Mb for £32.40/Month (£23.15 for the 1st 6 months).

Anyway, the deed is done. Now, I have read up quite a lot about VM and the common consensus on other forums and VM's own forum is that the SuperHub is a terrible piece of hardware when you try to use it for any form of routing/wireless. I have read the odd posts here and there from the select few that say that they have had no issues with the SuperHub and I hope that I will fall in to this category. However, should I need to purchase a router to use with the SuperHub in modem only mode, does anyone have any recommendations?

Ideally, I'd like a router that supports DD-WRT, I found the custom firmware very useful when I was using VM back in the good old days of 512kbps on my WRT54GS. (Yes, I had a version 1!) Also, I'd like something not too expensive, my friend suggested the Asus RT-N56U, but I'm not sure whether it supports DD-WRT and it costs near £85! A budget of £30-£40 is more manageable for me. 802.11n is a must, Gigabit would be a bonus, but not sure whether I can get it in that price and something with at least 4 ports would be useful, but the primary factor for me would probably be DD-WRT/Tomato support, so I'd be willing to stretch to £50 if I can get something really good.

Any help is much appreciated! (Just noticed looking through my post history, the last time I was here was 2008! And before that was 2006!) :O

29-08-2012, 16:44	#1
Zoom7000 Inactive Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 14	Recommend a router to use with SuperHub I've just signed up for Virgin Media 60MB Broadband (and Phone, although I won't be using it at all except for receiving calls). I've been with BE for my broadband and despite receiving a very decent service, it was practically a no-brainer continuing to pay £32.86/Month for Internet (ADSL2 @ ~10Mbps) & Phone, when VM can offer me up to 60Mb for £32.40/Month (£23.15 for the 1st 6 months). Anyway, the deed is done. Now, I have read up quite a lot about VM and the common consensus on other forums and VM's own forum is that the SuperHub is a terrible piece of hardware when you try to use it for any form of routing/wireless. I have read the odd posts here and there from the select few that say that they have had no issues with the SuperHub and I hope that I will fall in to this category. However, should I need to purchase a router to use with the SuperHub in modem only mode, does anyone have any recommendations? Ideally, I'd like a router that supports DD-WRT, I found the custom firmware very useful when I was using VM back in the good old days of 512kbps on my WRT54GS. (Yes, I had a version 1!) Also, I'd like something not too expensive, my friend suggested the Asus RT-N56U, but I'm not sure whether it supports DD-WRT and it costs near £85! A budget of £30-£40 is more manageable for me. 802.11n is a must, Gigabit would be a bonus, but not sure whether I can get it in that price and something with at least 4 ports would be useful, but the primary factor for me would probably be DD-WRT/Tomato support, so I'd be willing to stretch to £50 if I can get something really good. Any help is much appreciated! (Just noticed looking through my post history, the last time I was here was 2008! And before that was 2006!) :O