Superhub : 20meg to 100meg in July

[InsaneNutter]

In July we have an engineer coming to install us a Superhub and take away the old VMNG300 modem. I would sooner keep the VMNG300 if im honest, however i know sooner or later it will have to go. Especially as the guy on the phone said they hope to be offering 200meg around this time next year.

Is the superhub still horrible and full of problems? I would be using it as a modem only and keeping my Asus RT-N16 as the router. The RT-N16 can cope with well over 100meg throughput and is running OpenVPN and providing IPV6 via hurricane electric perfectly.

I'm just wondering if i should just accept the superhub or if its worth pushing to keep the VMNG300? The internet has always been perfect, the modem has never crashed and we get the speed we paid for.

The forums here still look to be full of superhub horror stories, i really would be annoyed to go from a solid internet connection to one that goes down all the time.

[adduxi]

LOL, I think you will find you have opened a can of worms .....

Seriously, you will not get an answer, except yes and no

I use a VMNG300 and Asus RT-N16 Router with TomatoUSB firmware, running 100/5 without any issues. It will do the 120/12 as well when it arrives.

It's really up to yourself, some people report the latest 'beta' R36 firmware has improved the S'Hub, others are reporting no difference.

If, and when, Virgin go to 200, and thats a big IF, as they can't seem to provide a stable 100 at the moment, I'll be forced to connect my S'Hub.......

Personally, iI would stick with what you have, better the devil you know

[boroboi]

I never thought id ever say this, but im running the R36 firmware, and my hub is behaving better in router mode than it is in modem mode... i ditched the hub for a VMNG300 a few weeks back, but reactivated it to trial the firmware.

If it stays like this, then i will probably leave it in unless things go downhill

[Mick Fisher]

I'm running a superhub in modem mode with an Asus RT-N16 Router with TomatoUSB firmware.

Seems to work pretty good.

[Skie]

Phone retentions and ask them to upgrade you right now. Worth a try just so you dont need to wait for an engineer to arrive and do all of 20 seconds worth of "work".

The superhub with the latest beta firmware seems to be not terrible. In modem mode you just have to put up with the giant blue beacons.

[crazyronnie]

black electrical tape will take care of the disco lights

[nish2030]

'black electrical tape will take care of the disco lights' looool i like that crazyronnie. Have to say am on the 100mb and my superhub delivers constant speeds of 105.81mb on the other hand it keeps resetting to factory settings.

[InsaneNutter]

Just to provide an update on this, Virgin refused to upgrade us over the phone to 100mbit insisting the VMNG300 modem was not capable of 100mbit. So i thought fine ill just bring it up with the engineer when he arrives.

A couple of days later i then got a call saying we could get 100mbit internet and keep the phone line (which has had no phone connected since the NTL dialup days) for £30 a month which i thought was a bit strange as we had already agreed to get rid of the phone we never used and just have 100mbit broadband for £34.75 a month. But hey we were currently paying £37.50 for 20mbit and a phone line we never used, so i'm not going to knock getting more for less. I then brought up the issue of keeping the VMNG300, the girl said that was fine and a few people had done that. (A contraindication to the last person i spoke to)

So anyway fast foward to today, the engineer arrived carrying a superhub as expected (why else would someone need to come out to get us on 100mbit?). I told him I had been told it was possible to keep the VMNG300 and that it would do 100mbit. He insisted it wouldnt be capable and phone'd his boss, his boss said the VMNG300 should have no problems and just to try it for us.

He proceeded to log on to some Virgin speed test branded website, then check the configuration of our modem, when he was satisfied we were getting 20mbit he made another call and got a guy to send the 100mbit config to our modem.

After he ran some Virgin branded version of speedtest.net again and we got 95mbit, he was like well i didnt expect that, thats the first time i have ever seen this modem do more than 50mbit. He was very surprised i was correct about that. (probably thought i was wasting his time saying that before, however he was always nice about it).

He made a note of the speed and went on his way.

I had to shoot off to work after that, however have just logged on to my home server and done some quick tests, definitely getting the full 100mbit download and 5mbit upload.

Download:



Upload:



Overall i'm happy i got to keep our modem, I just dont understand why each person at Virgin says something different? pretty clear they dont communicate with each other. I'm sure Virgin could have sent the 100mbit config out when i first phoned up weeks ago, then if i didn't work fair enough send an engineer out with a superhub.