Wifi is absolutely pap on ours as well. My brothers PC can't squeeze more than 2Mb/s, if he's lucky, he can get 5Mb/s and the router is all of 10 metres away using the 'big' version of this as his adaptor.
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Wifi is absolutely pap on ours as well. My brothers PC can't squeeze more than 2Mb/s, if he's lucky, he can get 5Mb/s and the router is all of 10 metres away using the 'big' version of this as his adaptor.
I had a lot of issues with my superhub, but I changed a setting where instead of auto selecting a channel, I picked on and it fixed it.
It used to drop out all the time and also had a poor signal. Once I done the tweak, it made it a lot better. I also found placing the hub high up made a difference in the signal strength.
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A liitle bit OT, but I downloaded the Android app Wi-Fi Manager to check out the local wifi usage. It is a very responsive app for showing wifi info - compared to Windows. Bizarre how many locals are on channel 11.
Tool was very useful - but it is a shame that I could not improve things by picking a channel, as no other network on channel 1.
inSSIDer is good for a laptop to check whats about.
Any recommendations for a good quality wireless router to work with the superhub in modem mode?
i have a netgear wndr3700 and wndr4500 both work very well.
the 4500 has just taken over the main roll while the 3700 is basically a 5 port hub and wireless extender.
I don't have a problem with Wifi on our Super Hub, can get a connection anywhere in our house. I can't comment much on the speeds but I have seen it do 20mb when we can do 50mb. But speed isn't a issue for me over Wifi personally, if am going to do some downloading, it's always through my cable connection.
I do have problems with it dropping the connection to my PC through, but I put this down to my extensive usage of uTorrent.
Service has been total crap since Friday, none stop DNS issues. Tomorrow they going to get a complaint about it and a demand for some refund for lost of service.
South of the UK really does have crap internet compared to up North, never had so much trouble before I moved down here. :l
i avoid vm DNS and use googles 8.8.8.8 as its not let me down yet.
just a note on the wireless, supposedly the new firmware has made a massive improvement to it, i know a couple guys on the beta and they say its now very good indeed.
I got a Superhub put in recently, and it was great for a few weeks. Now, it seems that every day I get slow reactions on the phone downstairs, so come upstairs to do a speed test, and find it's at about 2mbps or something. Rebooting the router usually puts it back up to 60-ish (got 68 the other day!), but it's grinding my gears. I knew about the wireless issue, and connectivity hasn't been a problem, but it's the line speed itself that's dropping out. Also, if I test on Speedtest.net I get 60+, but the Uswitch test only gets 17, any ideas why?
How do we get the new firmware?Quote:
Originally Posted by Dareos
the beta is closed. but you can keep a look out on the VM forums for updates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Terbinator
Could you not upload it for us if you have it? :iloveyou:Quote:
Originally Posted by GoNz0
Edit: NVM, apparently they're rolling it out on Monday at around 6-6:30PM.
Where will we get these drivers from.
The hardware makers or virgin media ?
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Netgear make the current Superhub and normal hub, any firmware updates are automatically pushed out by VM, there is no user option to defer or manually update firmware.
the update is pushed out to the routers via VM, if your in the beta then its tied to your mac addy, its not something you can download and flash :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Terbinator