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Magenim · 04-05-2015, 18:30

I have just installed a VM superhub 2ac and should like to continue to use it in its default router mode and as a wifi access point. It seems to work well for most purposes.
However it doesn't seem to support Apple AirPlay properly. This is a real bummer. I have an Airport Express that is connected to my stereo and have reconfigured the Airport Express to "join an existing wireless network", configuring it join the wireless network that is provided by the VM superhub. It kinda works, in that iTunes music selected on my iMac computer will play on the stereo. This pathway uses wired Ethernet from the computer to the router and then wifi to the Airport Express.
BUT iPhone and iPad will not play AirPlay properly. I can see the AirPlay icon and can attempt to use it- but the service is intermittent at best. It seems that the local upstream wifi and/or the lan router will just not support the AirPlay protocols. Unless there is some necessary configuration that I have missed?
I read in a forum somewhere a comment posted by a VM engineer that "Virgin Media routers do not support AirPlay". He advised, as have many others, to put the VM hub into simple modem mode and to purchase a separate decent router. I think it was a few years old. It can't still be true can it? Surely this state-of-the-art wifi router can support the very popular AirPlay system?

04-05-2015, 18:30	#1
Magenim Inactive Join Date: May 2015 Posts: 2	AirPlay using VM superhub 2ac in wifi router mode I have just installed a VM superhub 2ac and should like to continue to use it in its default router mode and as a wifi access point. It seems to work well for most purposes. However it doesn't seem to support Apple AirPlay properly. This is a real bummer. I have an Airport Express that is connected to my stereo and have reconfigured the Airport Express to "join an existing wireless network", configuring it join the wireless network that is provided by the VM superhub. It kinda works, in that iTunes music selected on my iMac computer will play on the stereo. This pathway uses wired Ethernet from the computer to the router and then wifi to the Airport Express. BUT iPhone and iPad will not play AirPlay properly. I can see the AirPlay icon and can attempt to use it- but the service is intermittent at best. It seems that the local upstream wifi and/or the lan router will just not support the AirPlay protocols. Unless there is some necessary configuration that I have missed? I read in a forum somewhere a comment posted by a VM engineer that "Virgin Media routers do not support AirPlay". He advised, as have many others, to put the VM hub into simple modem mode and to purchase a separate decent router. I think it was a few years old. It can't still be true can it? Surely this state-of-the-art wifi router can support the very popular AirPlay system?