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General Maximus · 17-01-2015, 08:50

I will make this quick and simple because I need to fly to work. Based on the above I am assuming that all the speed tests you have been doing are on wireless. You won't see many posts about it now because things have moved on but to cut a long story short, the wireless on shub1 is next to useless and it is something which they never fixed and it is particularly apparent when trying to achieve higher speeds. It either just won't reach them or if it is does, it is very unstable and just conks out.
There are two solutions to your problem. Firstly for diagnostic purposes you should run your speeds using a direct wired connection and I ideally use this all the time anyway instead of wireless. I am very confident that if you did this you would see your connection is a solid 60/3 and it is the wireless which is causing the issue and not your external VM connection. Secondly, if wireless is the way to go you need to ring up VM and moan your ass off and they should send you a shub2 for free (far better wireless) but you'll probably have to pay £6 postage, or you can put your shub1 in modem mode and but yourself a proper router.

17-01-2015, 08:50	#2
General Maximus cf.mega poster Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Lincoln Services: phone + 1gbit BB + SkyQ Posts: 11,021	Re: Just updated n it Crapola! I will make this quick and simple because I need to fly to work. Based on the above I am assuming that all the speed tests you have been doing are on wireless. You won't see many posts about it now because things have moved on but to cut a long story short, the wireless on shub1 is next to useless and it is something which they never fixed and it is particularly apparent when trying to achieve higher speeds. It either just won't reach them or if it is does, it is very unstable and just conks out. There are two solutions to your problem. Firstly for diagnostic purposes you should run your speeds using a direct wired connection and I ideally use this all the time anyway instead of wireless. I am very confident that if you did this you would see your connection is a solid 60/3 and it is the wireless which is causing the issue and not your external VM connection. Secondly, if wireless is the way to go you need to ring up VM and moan your ass off and they should send you a shub2 for free (far better wireless) but you'll probably have to pay £6 postage, or you can put your shub1 in modem mode and but yourself a proper router.