125M : Vmng300

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by pip08456

At least I can now honestly say from experience. The Superhub is a POS!

From rock steady 50Mb to fluctuating 100Mb!

My Superhub has been with me 6 weeks tomorrow without a hiccup.

[pip08456]

You have said that many times, some would say Ad Nauseum

I have said it hasn't dropped connection, it just isn't stable on the download and gives me nowhere near the 10Mb upload.

[General Maximus]

for those who havent worked it out yet:

SH = Super Hub
POS = Point of Sale

In all seriousness though, you have proven what I have been thinking and worrying about for a while. I have been with Ntl/VM for donkeys years and never wanted to leave but since the superhub was announced I have been wondering if it was inevitable that I would eventually have to move to BT and this has sort of hit the nail on the head now

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by General Maximus

for those who havent worked it out yet:

SH = Super Hub
POS = Point of Sale

Silly bugger!

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by pip08456

You have said that many times, some would say Ad Nauseum

I have said it hasn't dropped connection, it just isn't stable on the download and gives me nowhere near the 10Mb upload.

I have just checked the logs in the Superhub and since the initial bootup on the 11th Feb I have 3 further messages in the logs so it is more stable than my Ambit 256, probably down to the local backbone on the network which is very stable around here.

[pip08456]

Originally Posted by Masque

I have just checked the logs in the Superhub and since the initial bootup on the 11th Feb I have 3 further messages in the logs so it is more stable than my Ambit 256, probably down to the local backbone on the network which is very stable around here.

It's very stable down here too hence not one problem with the VMNG300 in all the time I had it.

Now I have the POS which cannot get near the supposed upload speed for the tier and fluctuates on the download speeds.

[Skie]

Originally Posted by Masque

I have just checked the logs in the Superhub and since the initial bootup on the 11th Feb I have 3 further messages in the logs so it is more stable than my Ambit 256, probably down to the local backbone on the network which is very stable around here.

The Superhubs logs dont actually record very much, just the normal CM related things. Certainly nothing like reboots or visitations from the wifi Angel of Death.

Get the thinkbroadband monitor running if you want to see when it throws a wobbler.

[pip08456]

Check the TBB thread here, latency and jitter are actually better now if you look at the one I recently posted.

SH's actually record less than the VMNG300 as it tends to overwrite recurring issues eg T3 timeouts especially the date and time they occur.

Actually managed to hit the magical 100Mb but upload still a problem



Knew it was too good to be true.

[Nopanic]

Originally Posted by pip08456

At least I can now honestly say from experience. The Superhub is a POS!

From rock steady 50Mb to fluctuating 100Mb!

Lets be honest dude, you were going to hate it no matter what the out come ..

If you have turned off all the floor crap and still get those speeds, maybe you have power level issues ?

You're not getting slow speeds because of the Hub ... its perfect .. like me

[Chrysalis]

pip the speed issue could well be contention, my personal view is selling 100mbit on 200mbit of shared capacity is a push too far. But I also remember when seeing my cpu usage was fairly high during a speedtest going at 30mbit.

as for nopanic saying the superhub is perfect then thats a massive own goal, no device is perfect and certianly not one that has the biggest complaints in VM's history.

[Peter_]

Originally Posted by Chrysalis

as for nopanic saying the superhub is perfect then thats a massive own goal.

Did you miss the grin smiley by any chance.

[capt coax]

i have just found one small issue with useing the vmng and an external router..

wan throuput not all routers that support gigabit lan have a fast or gigabit wan port.. most common routers have a low wan throuput that will drop your speed..

example.
i had a dir615 with ddwrt hooked up to it after a few speedtests i noticed that the tests gave me a max of 85megabit down.. so i looked at the spec sheet for the dir 615 and found out that the wan side was only rated at 85 megabit..

so after popping down to the local pc shop came back with some pci gigabit network cards threw together a moonwall x86 linux firewall router.. i now have a constant 102megabit connection and my upload has gone up 10% to just over 9megabit.

capt coax

ps im still very happy

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by capt coax

example.
i had a dir615 with ddwrt hooked up to it after a few speedtests i noticed that the tests gave me a max of 85megabit down.. so i looked at the spec sheet for the dir 615 and found out that the wan side was only rated at 85 megabit..

Which is one of the reasons 100Mbit is supposed to be SuperHub only - none of the standalone routers VM have supplied are designed to deal with it.

[capt coax]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Which is one of the reasons 100Mbit is supposed to be SuperHub only - none of the standalone routers VM have supplied are designed to deal with it.

yea indeed you have a very valid point there .. and it was an oversight on mybehalf really but it was easly sorted...

but it got me thinking..
how many home machines only have 10/100 ethernet that will be trying to use the 100meg service soon. like some routers ethernet cards do not give full rate . so there will be a bottleneck issue with the slightly older machines out there ....do vm give out network cards ??

anyway morning ben

[BenMcr]

Originally Posted by capt coax

do vm give out network cards ??

No

However they do have it in the minimum specs for 100Mbit that a Gigabit card is required

http://shop.virginmedia.com/broadban...aqs.html#1gbps