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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
The Superhub is 'average'; just because the Sky Hub is a pile of crap doesn't make it any better than average 
It has a way to go to match the capabilities of BT's, EE's or TalkTalk's kit. |
Well he said Superhub 2. Which is 'above average' on paper (OK maybe not compared to all the new stuff released this year...). Up until the HH4 BT were known for being quite a bit behind as well. The HH3 being 2.4Ghz only, and having one gigabit port, was out at the same time as the Superhub 1, which had non-concurrent dual-band and 4 gigabit ports.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Come back when you have worked with networks, routers and computers for over 25 years and have a Cisco qualification. Come back when you understand router's NAT tables and can BINWALK their firmware. Then you won't look like such a  and we can talk. |
Cisco Shitsco. Meh!
That said he's probably not old enough yet. But if you're good at binwalking firmware I might just have a job for you
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Originally Posted by jb66
All I need is 5ghz mode. I'll have to buy a router or see if 500 homeplugs do the trick. Feels like I'm back in the year 2000 with this sky hub
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You can get a 5Ghz router/access point for about £30 these days. Alternatively (granted, not possible on the Sky hub but is possible on Openwrt routers) you can nick one of those VM USB wireless sticks, plug it into a 2.4Ghz router's USB port and run it in AP mode on 5Ghz.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
I'm all ears to everyone, except to those who have no clue about technology but insist on telling the techies they don't know anything, as if they have some air of knowledge or authority. Only come across one person that stupid so far, and even if they met the criteria above, the chat would still be too soon 
I understand you have had lots of experience resetting problematic Superhubs, or something like that, talk away |
Always gotta love those types on forums.
That said, about the 5Ghz mode "not being used" - more and more vendors are incorporating band steering now, and device manufacturers are sometimes biasing their client equipment towards 5Ghz as well. We are, slowly but surely, moving towards devices defaulting to prefer 5Ghz over 2.4Ghz automatically without explicit user intervention.
Course, it doesn't help that the 802.11 MAC is a horrendous pile of poop that still lacks basic features that first-generation 2G phones had in 1990.
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Originally Posted by Qtx
Newer phones, tablets and laptops have the capability but many default to 2.4Ghz and unless a user makes a conscious decision to change it, it wont get used. The majority of users are not techies and wont know the difference or when best to use the frequencies.
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Funny enough many newer phones have *removed* the option to manually select 802.11 bands, supposedly because too many users were setting 5Ghz only and then complaining their Wifi was broken when trying to use 2.4Ghz only networks.