Superhub Superhub Firmware Beta Test - Page 9

deuse · 29-03-2011, 09:07

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Originally Posted by Masque

I logged in and went to advanced settings and unticked firewall and ipflood and it works fine.

Have you ever tried connecting a NAS to the super hub? it goes like this.

NAS=Hello super Hub I need these ports in UPnP please.

Super Hub=NO you can't have them..well yes I do see you but you can't have the ports you want with out a fight!.

NAS=Ok to war we go I will force you to give me them. I will tell the user how to do it.

Super hub resets it's self in the battle trying to confuse the NAS, but the nas is not having this and grabs the UpnP ports it needs.

Super hub= OK OK OK..you win here are your UpnP ports.(but you wait till the user turns me off .. we go to war again)

User=And still the upload speed through the super hub is crap calls 150 in hope.

zekeisaszekedoes · 30-03-2011, 15:11

Ha. Reminds me of @wilw's cat/dog posts.

Chrysalis · 31-03-2011, 19:39

new progress on the testing and also VM have posted some pleasant news which surprised me in a positive way.

BenMcr · 31-03-2011, 20:07

Which would be....?

Chrysalis · 31-03-2011, 20:13

I can post it since I see mark posted it in public anyway not just to testers.

Its a long planned changes list.

http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/.../425589#M72061

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This is an update to give you an idea of all of the features suggested in this thread that we're currently investigating if we can include in the Super Hub firmware

We've not finished our investigation into if it's practical for us to include all of these features, but we do hope to include as many as possible.

Also to speed the availability of Modem Mode (Bridge Mode) these features will not be included in that firmware update available in the near future as we first hoped. When we have more information on which features will be selected and when they'll be available I'll post it on the forum.

Feature requests for Overlay GUI

•Add Super Hub reboot option
•Increased overlay GUI timeout (also add user defined option) - This is currently 180 seconds, needs to be minimum of 360 seconds and/or user defined
•Link to VM Speed Test tool
•Visual confirmation of 'connect speed' for upstream and downstream

Feature requests for Advanced GUI

•Remove reboot after reserving a LAN IP - Currently, the Super Hub reboots after every LAN IP is reserved. Should be able to add multiple before applying the setting and rebooting the Super Hub
•Add DDNS support - Ability to set-up DDNS services
•Add ability to specify alternate DNS - Ability to set an alternate DNS on Super Hub, used for 'OpenDNS' type services
•Add Quality Of Service (QOS) functionality - Adding a QOS feature that will allow certain traffic to be prioritized
•Add ability to directly access 'Advanced' GUI via unique URL - So instead of entering 192.168.0.1 (or http://routerlogin.net) you could enter 192.168.0.1/advanced (or http://routerlogin.net/advanced)
•Add Channel adaption technology (Smart Wireless) - Ability to monitor frequency noise and change channel on the fly in order to move to a less saturated frequency
•Add ability to dim/switch off LEDs
•Add ability to configure VPN
•Add ability to monitor Bandwidth & usage
•Add Wake On LAN (WOL) functionality - Ability to wake up connected (but powered down/sleeping/hibernating) device
•Access to signal levels without having to log into GUI - Ability to access http://192.168.0.1/RgConnect.asp without logging into GUI
•Provide SNMP Monitoring - Provides ability to monitor LAN side settings (not WAN side) - i.e. bandwidth, CPU load, RAM etc… generally read only
•Add Network Time Protocol (NTP) functionality - Retains accurate time by linking to online time service, also provides ability to synchronize clocks on all devices across the network
•Add Port Address Translation (PAT) functionality - PAT translates TCP or UDP communications made between hosts on a private network and hosts on a public network. It allows a single public IP address to be used by many hosts on a private network (LAN)
•Add ability for user to adjust remote access timeout for SSH etc…
•Add ability to toggle port forward settings - Currently have to delete and re-enter if you wish to temporarily disable a setting
•Add ability to view same stats as on the VM300 - For example: Correctable codewords, Uncorrectable codewords, Total codewords received, Upstream mini-slot size, Interleave data if it's not standard across the network, etc...
•Allow MAC auto-population - For area's where a MAC address is to be entered (i.e. LAN IP area), allow MAC of connected device to be selected and auto-populated - will reduce input errors.
•Allow more than 10 pings to test connectivity.
•Improved logs - Add Device power cycle, firmware updates, dropped connections, ports/services blocked, etc...
•Configurable INTERNAL IP Lease Time
•Add confirmation prompt prior to any reboot attempt.

there is incidently a new beta version now as well. They seem to be a bit confused over the timeout stuff tho thinking it be specific setting for ssh etc. when really it just be a tcp established connection timeout setting so would apply to everything.

BenMcr · 31-03-2011, 20:21

Hope you noticed

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We've not finished our investigation into if it's practical for us to include all of these features, but we do hope to include as many as possible.

Chrysalis · 31-03-2011, 20:25

I did. Which is why i said planned, obviously no guarauntuee it will happen.

Skie · 31-03-2011, 21:24

Those would all be great, but I can only see 4-5 of them making it in. The rest are fairly pie in the sky long term things. The hardware may not even be up to the job, no doubt the kit in the hub isnt bleeding edge.

The latest beta, R25, only has "Fixes a small number of recenty discovered security issues on the VMDG480 Super Hub." added. Which I guess just means they have blocked SSH access so you can't enable features that the device supports but arent exposed on the UI.

Chrysalis · 31-03-2011, 22:21

the latest beta firmware is quite buggy, I already have few issues on it including speedtest.net been partially broken and giving poor results. I can put up with the bugs I volunteered after all but it seems a step back from the previous firmware. Browsing and even the gui are slower, I suspect the reason may the last line on the connection page (which I wont say here) but other testers can see it and see what I mean.

Chrysalis · 01-04-2011, 02:53

the speedtest.net thing is a false alert, something my end was the cause.

craigj2k12 · 01-04-2011, 10:42

anyone had any luck with the r25 firmware

BenMcr · 07-04-2011, 09:52

Well R25 has been released http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...11/td-p/435549

Chrysalis · 07-04-2011, 10:42

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

Well R25 has been released http://community.virginmedia.com/t5/...11/td-p/435549

Ben VM just confirmed they just ignore beta testers.

R25 is the firmware that cuts out downloads and streaming, multiple testers reported the same issue, other issues were also reported.

So VM have released a firmware with known bugs that is less stable than R20. Although R24 was ok, something changed that made R25 much less stable than R24.

BenMcr · 07-04-2011, 10:46

I assume that's what it means by

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Note: we will be updating our known issues list for this firmware with some issues spotted by our trialists once they have been confirmed in our labs.

Chrysalis · 07-04-2011, 10:51

thats no good tho is it.

This firmware shouldnt be released, it simply isnt ready and too buggy, the download cutout issues are very serious as well, things like youtube stopping 20 seconds into a video and downloads aborting by themselves incomplete. My connection was so bad I downgraded my firmware back to R20 as was affecting me too much.

It seems to me VM have probably rushed this out for 2 reasons.

1 - they didnt like that flood protection was giving bad pingtest results and for whatever reason want people to leave that enabled even tho its useless so put that as a priority fix.
2 - ssh is the security fix mentioned, ssh is officialy disabled in R25.