Virgin to give new Superhub out.

[pabscars]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I find it hard to believe you, many staffs don't have to pay any activation fee and get cheaper broadband, phone and tv because they work better discounts as a virgin media staffs only. I know one virgin staff who live across the road, he get free broadband (50 meg) for as long as he work for virgin media and he doesn't pay any penny.

Its called perks of the job

[Stephen]

Telford you don't know.

It's true that if any staff on 20mb want 30mb they need to pay the £30 to get the superhub.

[telfordcable]

Originally Posted by Stephen

Telford know don't know.

It's true that if any staff on 20mb want 30mb they need to pay the £30 to get the superhub.

rubbish, it loads of lies. I take it as you love VM staffs aren't ya and protect them!

[SnoopZ]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

rubbish, it loads of lies. I take it as you love VM staffs aren't ya and protect them!

you don't get any better do you?

[Stephen]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

rubbish, it loads of lies. I take it as you love VM staffs aren't ya and protect them!

I can asure you that its true.

I am actually a VM staff member and if I could I would show you that we have to pay to get the superhub to upgrade from 20Mb.

However I am on 50Mb and already have the superhub because I was trialling it for a couple of months before it got released.

You really don't get that you are making yourself look really daft.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Stephen

I can asure you that its true.

I am actually a VM staff member and if I could I would show you that we have to pay to get the superhub to upgrade from 20Mb.

However I am on 50Mb and already have the superhub because I was trialling it for a couple of months before it got released.

You really don't get that you are making yourself look really daft.

He most likely does but just doesn't care.

If nothing else he's entertaining.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by telfordcable

I find it hard to believe you, many staffs don't have to pay any activation fee and get cheaper broadband, phone and tv because they work better discounts as a virgin media staffs only. I know one virgin staff who live across the road, he get free broadband (50 meg) for as long as he work for virgin media and he doesn't pay any penny.

I signed up online this morning and I will have to pay £30 for the Superhub along with everyone else who has a standard modem or hub on 20Mb.

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Originally Posted by telfordcable

All virgin staffs are only saying this (to protect themselves) as they don't want to tell customers of how much they pay or activation fee for all staffs. I know they all get it free as long they are in the job with VM.

They earn £21,000 to £28,000 a year salary for virgin media techical and installation.

You really are in a fantasy world today, I do wonder if you overload on chocolate or something before you post.

Spoiler: 

Can we focus on the topic, please?

[jb66]

No Telford, we get free 500meg and skysports red button free

[zekeisaszekedoes]

I've tried to shorten this, but it's still a long post.

Originally Posted by ShadowTD

I copied some files over from my NAS (about 2.5GB) and experienced the same network performance I did with my old DG854. The wireless side has been an improvement as well with less dropouts and quicker reconnection.

You EXPECT regular dropouts?

With 300Mbps wireless N, 100Mbps equivalent line performance should be normal even in areas with heavy WiFi traffic. No dropouts, same average transfer rates. The odd speed reduction is to be expected, but unexplained loss of connection when still well within range (in Windows, three bars and up) is not.

Sorry to lay into your post.

Originally Posted by Horizon

Looks nice too.

It does, doesn't it? The design is discreet and svelte.

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I tried telling them the same on the dd-wrt forums, I told them 300mbit is fine on stock firmware and the wireless issue is a dd-wrt one, got shot down tho.

It's a tough one to call because DD-WRT is exceptional, especially for free. IMO you're 100% right: DD-WRT wireless performance on the DIR-615s suffers regardless of revision.

Originally Posted by Skie

Had a funny issue before, wireless on the hub decided to absolutely crawl while the wired connections were fine. Reboot sorted it, but I thought it was interference from another network at first (I've seen the same symptoms when a video-sender was turned on).

The hub could do with a reset button in the config pages, its in the attic!

Yeah, I've had that problem a lot. Wireless is fine, then it slows and eventually stops working completely. As for the reset button, amusingly almost every other router (including non-Virginised Netgear ones) have web GUI options for this. As a workaround, one way to do it is make a bogus Static DHCP entry with fake MAC and save. Due to the poor way the firmware is programmed this causes an immediate reboot. Deleting these entries has the same effect.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

Yeah, dd-wrt is a bit flaky still with Ralink SoC's

DD-WRT support is "good enough" on the DIR-615 but as I'm spoilt by it being close to perfect on the WRT54G range I expected more. Going by the progress made in 2010, I'm sure by the end of 2011 it'll get there. BS/Eko know their stuff.

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

In my limited testing I've hit line speed (95mbps) routing performance with dd-wrt with all additional features off, but once QoS is turned on it'll drop to about ~45mbps and hit 100% CPU.

Openwrt tends to do a lot better in routing performance and has better QoS anyway so once the wireless on it gets stable, that might be the better way to go.

Daisy chaining routers means good QoS is needed on all to keep the network efficient, I would guess. With the DIR-615 running out of one ethernet port on the WRT54GS v2.1 there's only so much QoS control DD-WRT can do, of course. Not a problem now, but assuming an upgrade to 50Mbps and still having three SOHO routers it might be.

I'm tempted to dabble with OpenWRT. But stock firmware has been nice and reliable the past week, so not yet!

Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

To be fair, you do seem to have had a pretty bad experience with the Superhub but it seems to be unusually bad rather than the norm.

Just to be sure, have you turned off all the security features?

I hope it's just a faulty unit on my end, honestly. But increasingly it seems that the only time you don't have problems is if those in your household are "light" users with little LAN/WAN traffic.

I've done all the firewall tweaks and other limited changes you can make in the "advanced" side of the VM-branded Netgear firmware, yes. They delay the problem, but it turns up again soon enough.

Seems like classic Catch 22: to have the high speed broadband you must have the Super Hub, but if you have the Super Hub you can't make the most of it.

Still, I could be paying ~£130 for the Sky rainbow package, what with it's whopping 5Mbps broadband in my area.

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Wait, what... there's a 30Mbps package now? If I'd known that I would have held out on moving up from 10Mbps. Still, knowing the Super Hub my current setup with the old blue NTL badged Ambit 250 is still better.

[ShadowTD]

Well, I've only had the thing about 2-3 weeks. We've got horribly congested airwaves round here from a brace of routers and a car wash that squirts horrible RF crap all over.

I had one disconnection when I was running the Super Hub at 2.4Ghz. Since I've moved it to 5Ghz it's been absolutely rock solid.

I know you've decided that for your useage it's a massive bag of spanners and nothing will change that opinion. Hopefully the 'use SH as a modem' firmware will arrive fairly soon and this will all become a moot point.

[whizzard]

Originally Posted by ShadowTD

Well, I've only had the thing about 2-3 weeks. We've got horribly congested airwaves round here from a brace of routers and a car wash that squirts horrible RF crap all over.

I had one disconnection when I was running the Super Hub at 2.4Ghz. Since I've moved it to 5Ghz it's been absolutely rock solid.

I know you've decided that for your useage it's a massive bag of spanners and nothing will change that opinion. Hopefully the 'use SH as a modem' firmware will arrive fairly soon and this will all become a moot point.

We'll have to wait for Jesus to climb aboard his sunbeam first before we see the bridge mode / modem only firmware.

[BenMcr]

It is on it's way.

[Chrysalis]

got the superhub, the first annoyance is it keeps forcing me to relogin to the gui, it has a very low auto logout timer.

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cant find the guy who said he changed the subnet to 192.168.1

I just tried changing it, looks simple enough to do in the gui until I hit apply, I get.

"lan ip address and guest ip address cannot be the same"

I have no lan ip using 192.168.1.1 and it says the error if I change the last octect to something else as well.

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no idea on the error, I ended up changing rest of lan to 192.168.0, just my adsl router not changed so for now got 3 ip ranges assigned to this machine.

[qasdfdsaq]

192.168.1.1 is reserved for the guest network on the Superhub. Don't know if this can be changed or turned off, but I'd recommend avoiding 1.x all the same.