I've recently built a NAS server in the upstairs bedroom. I've got a Raspberry Pi in the other bedroom, running OpenELEC/xbmc, and downstairs is my main PC which is wired to the Virgin hub.
All three are connected via TP-Link gigabit homeplugs but, as I understand it, the superhub is doing all of the routing via the TP-Link connected to port 4 of the superhub.
So, if I'm watching an HD film (mkv/avi etc) the data's coming from the NAS, routed via the superhub back upstairs to the Raspberry Pi.
I get pretty crappy speeds when copying files from downstairs onto the NAS (about 8MB/s), so I'm not sure if this is the old house's wiring or a bottleneck in the router.
Has anyone replaced their Virgin superhub with a third party, more advanced, one? If so, will it handle my login credentials to Virgin so that I've still got my cable Internet?


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All VM superhubs and older modems are registered on the network using a combination of software version and mac addresses, therefore only virgin registered devices can act as modems because even if you spoofed the mac, the server would recognise that its not using the same software and attempt to update it.
