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Originally Posted by WarnersEnd
but presumably that won't deliver much in the way of benefits until August.
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I am pretty sure the shub will fix all your problems dude. Utilisation and fix dates seems to the de facto excuse these days. You sit there waiting till August for this magical transformation and when things don't get better you ring up to find out what is going on only to be told there wasn't an issue to start off with. Anyways, I digress...
The thing which I wanted to explain this morning and didn't have time to is why you need a shub. You have got to think of your internet connection (to VM) as a motorway with lots of lanes (channels) . Each lane can only handle so much speed so the faster you want to go (like 152mbits) the more lanes you need to use. The problem you have got is that the modem you are currently using can only use one of these lanes and if there is a problem with that lane you are screwed. The shub can use 8 channels simultaneously (varies by area but you will have at least 6 available to you) to which your traffic will be load balanced across. The means that if there is a problem with one or two of channels, you hopefully won't notice it too much because your traffic will still go across the other 4 or so.
Having a shub requires you to consider a few things though. The shub is a combi modem/router so not only is it going to be connected to the coax cable for your internet connection, your pc/whatever else is also going to plug into the back. At the moment you have either got one pc you connect straight to your modem or you have got your own router which you are using separately. If you have got your own router you can put the shub in modem mode which will basically allow you to retain your current setup, or if your current router is quite old (especially for wireless), you might want to think about ditching it if they send you a shub2 and using that instead.
Come back and let us know when it arrives and how things go. Click on this
link and scroll down to the 5th post. There are some screen shots there of what the shub gui looks like. All the info is exactly the same apart from there is more of it because you will be using more downstream and upstream channels. My power levels are pretty much perfect so use them as a guide for yours. Any concerns come back and post yours for analysis.