Superhub Superhub 2 - Page 10

Chrysalis · 03-05-2013, 01:09

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Originally Posted by pip08456

Hide it? Yes if it is in your bedroom (as a lot are) if it interferes with you getting to sleep.

I too don't see the need for wall-mounting as if it's free standing (I take it it stands upright as the last one did) there is a better circulation of air to aid cooling.

haha well yeah you got me there.

normal routers dont keep me awake, but when I had the superhub its blue light was like turbo powered lighting the whole room blue :p

I didnt hide the superhub tho instead I just covered the light.

Putting it behind something big just makes it a hassle to swap cables, power cycle it etc. As well as not likely great for wifi reception if used.

pip08456 · 03-05-2013, 01:31

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

haha well yeah you got me there.

normal routers dont keep me awake, but when I had the superhub its blue light was like turbo powered lighting the whole room blue :p

I didnt hide the superhub tho instead I just covered the light.

Putting it behind something big just makes it a hassle to swap cables, power cycle it etc. As well as not likely great for wifi reception if used.

What's wrong with a black bin bag then?

Especially if it is outside for collection!

Coffeeguy · 03-05-2013, 02:50

Never thought I'd see the day where people would be crying over anything other than the Superhub 2's functionality.

eljay · 03-05-2013, 09:54

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Originally Posted by Coffeeguy

Never thought I'd see the day where people would be crying over anything other than the Superhub 2's functionality.

Come on this is the Cable Forum. It is essential that we continue to fight for the right to continually bicker over anything and everything, even if it was perfection personified.

pip08456 · 03-05-2013, 09:58

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Originally Posted by Coffeeguy

Never thought I'd see the day where people would be crying over anything other than the Superhub 2's functionality.

You haven't lived yet then have you?

broadbandking · 03-05-2013, 10:03

Cableforum bickering will take over your life coffeeguy, don't continue down this road it only ends bad i.e lose your wife (well can be a plus sometimes) late nights, I could go on but you get the picture.

adduxi · 03-05-2013, 10:14

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

why hide it? do people not like routers or something?
I certianly have never understood the craze off wall mounting them.

I can't see any of my networking kit, it's all hidden away in my "Comms Room", complete with UPS and remote control power switches .....

pip08456 · 03-05-2013, 10:37

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Originally Posted by broadbandking

Cableforum bickering will take over your life coffeeguy, don't continue down this road it only ends bad i.e lose your wife (well can be a plus sometimes) late nights, I could go on but you get the picture.

How right you are!

Nothing wrong with having a sense of humour though!

Kushan · 03-05-2013, 10:47

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Originally Posted by BenMcr

And people wonder why the wireless signal doesn't go very far

Everyone knwos that the biggest cause of wireless interference comes from dogs wagging their tails and disrupting the signal.

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Originally Posted by pip08456

How right you are!

Nothing wrong with having a sense of humour though!

No, apparently not...

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Kush - you got that? You've been pronounced a FAIL!

roughbeast · 03-05-2013, 10:56

SH2 in full router mode gives me a messy looking tbb graph with mean latency slightly higher than in modem-only. It bubbles around 20ms rather than 13ms in modem-only.

Pingtest pretty well confirms that.

Jitter can sometimes be as high as 2, but that was the case in modem-only too. The messy tbb graph doesn't seem to be associated with high jitter or particularly high latency.

Speed tests at tbb and speedtestnet are unaffected by SH2.

Wireless range seems at least as good as my WNDR3700 version 1. However, connections to my VM Freedom netbook and my Xperia U Android have been dropped in favour of other signals more than in modem -only. The up side to wireless is that speed tests on my wireless devices have been better in full router mode. Today I achieved a full 25Mb on my Xperia U in the same room as SH2. Previously in modem-only I maxed at 19Mb. I have 5MHz disbled because my devices aren't enabled for that.

My wife thinks the SH2 is good because you can tone down the LEDs. She has always wanted a car with a blue tint in the headlights.

kevgreen36 · 03-05-2013, 15:26

How do you change the brightness of the leds, my living looks like blackpool illusions when I go to bed.

Sephiroth · 03-05-2013, 15:31

That's implemented on the SuperHub 2.

alanplum241276 · 03-05-2013, 15:33

I just rang VM for 2 reasons:

1. Can I have the 120Mb upgrade early please?
VM - No!

2. Can I have a SuperHub 2 please?
VM- Not out yet, and when they are it will cost you £50.

Cheers

qasdfdsaq · 03-05-2013, 16:23

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Originally Posted by Dash: CF noob

Qas will be here after school to disect it for us.

School?!

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Originally Posted by Kushan

Interesting. So has nobody got anything bad to say about it? Nice development, I'm still on an Ambit 300, if I hold out long enough, I might upgrade to this thing.

Oh I do, I've just been away a while

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Originally Posted by General Maximus

I don't know whether to be a pesimist or not. Have they listened to customer feedback and enabled modem mode from the get go to maje everyone happy or are they just covering their asses in case this one is a flop as well?

Hah!

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One thing nobody seems to have mentioned is whether the SH2 can actually use the full range of 5Ghz channels and not just 4 (the same as you can get at 2.4Ghz) like the old one.

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis

I was going to say its a vast improvement over the first superhub, the connectors are on the thin side which is good, but the stand they have should have been top and bottom so it could be laid flat. ISP's I feel still fail in that they think standing up is superior to flat.

As far as wireless signal goes, standing up is superior to flat.

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Now VM a major uk isp is going to have it on their new CPE suddenly 5ghz may get crowded?

You realise BT are doing it as well?

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Originally Posted by Kushan

Still, if everyone in the country switched over to 5Ghz tomorrow, there'd still be a significant improvement just thanks to the nature of 5Ghz alone - it has less penetration than 2.4Ghz, which sounds bad but it also means that your neighbours connections will interfere a lot less.

Unless you happen to be using real men's 5Ghz equipment which has between 10x and 40x the transmit power of 2.4Ghz.

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Originally Posted by thenry

its a dead cert that 'someone' opened it up

Derp?

qasdfdsaq · 03-05-2013, 16:24

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Originally Posted by Dash: CF noob

Gaffer tape?

Exactly