Superhub R30 - Superhub R29 is no more.... - Page 8

Sephiroth · 04-09-2011, 16:38

Me too. I've had the Airport Express since I got 50 meg last year. Best router ever and I'm in the business. One green light on the front is all you need!

adzzzbatch · 04-09-2011, 18:43

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Me too. I've had the Airport Express since I got 50 meg last year. Best router ever and I'm in the business. One green light on the front is all you need!

May have to start using mine as a router then.

thenry · 05-09-2011, 19:55

Why another week of testing? Its stable, just release it already

Mad Ad · 05-09-2011, 22:11

Wow this superhub is still broken. Thought id check in see how things had been going with the hubs, surprise nothing changes. VM will not get a penny more of my cash for an upgrade till its fixed and tested.

Even then i still dont like handing control of my internet experience over to them, rebooting it all the time for services that i dont need, patches that should have been sorted from start if the right hardware was purchased.

It really hacks me off that im forced to have hardware that i cannot trust or control. And they wonder why people are disillusioned with their bb and leave. damn this forum why wont the text format- it keeps lumping everything into one paragraph, wtg wall of textmaker.

arcimedes · 06-09-2011, 09:51

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Originally Posted by Mad Ad

Wow this superhub is still broken. Thought id check in see how things had been going with the hubs, surprise nothing changes. VM will not get a penny more of my cash for an upgrade till its fixed and tested.

Even then i still dont like handing control of my internet experience over to them, rebooting it all the time for services that i dont need, patches that should have been sorted from start if the right hardware was purchased.

I dont know how you come to the first conclusion as the current beta test has run very well and it is planned to release the the software generally soon

I agree with your comments on being forced to re-boot when certain things are changed. I changed wifi card in my main PC and it took several goes before I could get the correct IP address on it. It insisted it was a static IP adress which I dont think the old card had been. The inability to setup dynDNS stuff I am in two minds as when I had it on my Linksys router I was chucked off as the router was communicating to much with them so now I run the updater/checker on the PC.

I think VM need to act more responsibly in the future as you are tied to their equipment to connect to the network unlike ADSL where you can use anything.

Fspiders · 06-09-2011, 13:56

An update from Mark Wilkins.

Just a brief update with some positive news, from what we can see from your feedback and our own testing R30 is looking very positive with no show stopping bugs. So we're currently planning to release the R30 firmware generally next week, we'll make the final decision on Monday the 12th and announce it here.

I'm running the hub on r30 on 5ghz and have no problems at all and to be honest I have no complaints at all now about the hub. For the general internet and networking user it's spot on.

Regards.

chienmort · 06-09-2011, 15:45

So another week. To be fair my hub has had months of use with no problems then for the second time, about a week ago it started faffing around.

I will just have to wait but if VM want to do gamma testing.. I am your man!

thenry · 07-09-2011, 16:07

The cheap hardware that is the SH was boosted by R30 where it upped its game, I was impressed with its performance but it seems to have gone back to old ways. Not in the sense of all the bugs, reboots etc. although I did have a mess up last night which I'll blame the network for.

kwikbreaks · 07-09-2011, 16:49

The memory leak bugfix in R30 will no doubt get rid of many if not all of the complaints of it hanging and rebooting but I can't see how a firmware change is going to fix the poor radio performance and VM have done nothing about the scores of minor niggles such as ridiculously short timeouts, lack of features, reboots for every minor change etc. etc.

What you will get though is an oversized modem and the need to provide your own router if you want anything above bare basics.

thenry · 07-09-2011, 17:37

Well that sucks. This is what everyones moaning about, why not just release this R30 firmware which is stable and is getting nothing but praises in regards to fixing the major issues then, I mean right after its released get to work on improving R30 firmware! No wait, their going to take a little time off from it because its being a long hard fight

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are VM competing with BT on all fronts? Or are the contempt with having better speeds available?

Mick Fisher · 07-09-2011, 19:23

All I want is modem mode. I have a nice asus router waiting for me to put tomato on it.

I just need to know if the hub in modem mode is stable in my location and with my configuration before I change everything over.

Ugh!! I hate networking with a vengence. It never goes according to plan for me. So the less unknowns the better.

thenry · 07-09-2011, 19:57

Why didn't you sign up for beta Mike ?

RB2004 · 07-09-2011, 20:09

In VM's defence, regarding features.
on the BETA forum, they do have a list of requests for new features to be added that they plan on looking at.

But their priority is sorting out the stability of the superhub, no point in adding tonnes of new features if the existing ones dont work.

The hope is, now R30 is prooving to be more stable they will start looking at the feature additions.

Regarding Modem Mode... expect it next week as R30 is being rolled out to everyone.

Skie · 07-09-2011, 20:45

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Originally Posted by thenry

are VM competing with BT on all fronts? Or are the contempt with having better speeds available?

Pretty much just the higher speeds.

They have made some claims about being good for gaming, but those are pretty laughable. The offcom report that they constantly trumped about showing them having the highest average speed pretty much pans them for ping, jitter and packetloss. And if you compare the broadband reports quality monitor to people on other networks it shows the claims to be miles off at best.

Hopefully, once Infinity is bedded in and more widely available, BT will begin to target VM's spotty performance in marketing. That might make VM bother to do something rather than just continually piling more money into ever faster speeds.

KenK · 07-09-2011, 22:06

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Originally Posted by RB2004

In VM's defence, regarding features.
on the BETA forum, they do have a list of requests for new features to be added that they plan on looking at.

ah, the old 'coming soon' gambit. By the time they get round to implementing anything, the hardware will be obsolete (if it isn't already).

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Originally Posted by RB2004

But their priority is sorting out the stability of the superhub, no point in adding tonnes of new features if the existing ones dont work.

I know I've said this before, but it's a pity they didn't make the device stable, with working basic features, before they inflicted it on their customers.

When will this device live up to it's self-proclaimed superlative - "super"hub