Superhub : Replacement Router (100mb)

[Dark Fiber]

I'm presently sitting in a relative's house with BT Infinity, wirelessly connected to a BTHub3. I didn't know there was a modem-only option, no one I know has it. BTW the speed here is only 4Mb/s today cf my newly doubled 20Mb/s at home!

[robson689]

Originally Posted by Dark Fiber

I'm presently sitting in a relative's house with BT Infinity, wirelessly connected to a BTHub3. I didn't know there was a modem-only option, no one I know has it. BTW the speed here is only 4Mb/s today cf my newly doubled 20Mb/s at home!

The BTHub3 doesn't combine the router and modem. It has a port for ADSL if you're not on infinity, and it has a WAN port for Infinity customers. The WAN port is where the connection from the separate modem goes.

[Sephiroth]

The HH3 is a router that connects to the Infinity modem. Your relative can put any cable router on instead (configured for PPoE) if they wanted to. Or they can buy a VDSL Gateway that would do what the SuperHub does (only much better).

I have both BT Infinity and VM XXL 100. The BT supplied Huawei modem is connected to an ASUS RT56-NU router (I threw the HH away - quite useles). I get about 55 meg on Infinity owing to the constraints of the twisted pair to the cabinet. My VM 100 is mostly spot on.

[Dark Fiber]

Apologies, I've just located the modem proper under the bed! Wouldn't it be great if this aspect of BT Infinity forced a rethink in the rarefied upper echelons of Vm?

[Sephiroth]

Stable door, mate. The SH is a perfectly credible cable modem. All VM have to do is promote it as such and declare the router functions as either "get you going" or "inadvisable".

[qasdfdsaq]

And take out the excessive crap that makes it consume three times as much electricity as necessary.