Virgin Media Hub!!

Not at home so cant post the speed test results but i get 50mb down and 5mb up but using newsgroups over wireless about 0.5mb down and the dm800 has only started glitching since ive installed the super hub, which should be fine with 5mb upload that is never used.
 
hi ive got the super hub went from 10 mg to 30 meg , now on 50 mg. my last modem could take 50 meg but vm call centre said you need the super hub due to a different signal sent to the modem // if i kept using the old modem i would not get the full mg i asked for
 
Until these new modem only fw get released is there any way to force it to get a new ip address? As the DMZ option wouldn't do anything. Old modem + router was easy - change the spoofed mac on the router and reboot everything.
 
i cannot understand why virgin are forcing the so called super hub onto customers. i ws going to upgrade my 50mb connection to 100mb when it finally get done here - the chap i spoke to on the blower said i would have no choice but to change the modem to this.
I currently have a dosis 3.0 modem (the strange shaped virgin one) that i payed for last year when i upgraded this modem is capable of 200mb so i dont see an issue, i dont want to lose the very reliable set up i now have.
i bet also the homehub dosent support subnets?.

this is the kind of thing ive come to expect from sky - they only want you to ever to use thier inferiour equipement on thier system, please virgin at least let us choose our own routers...
 
i think the superhub supports a guest network, but not really sure what you mean by not supporting subnets? surely it should just because they all should? you can simply break the network down into subnets and set it up as you want can you not? confused.


anyway, the two superhubs ive had to administer have been ok, i do know there where alot of issues with early firmwares on them, mainly port forwarding and also the lack DDNS service, which as well as simple port forwarinding is an absolute disgrace.

portforwarding has not been an issue on the two i have used, but DDNS is a no no at the moment.
 
DDNS isn't really much of a problem as you can easily run it elsewhere. Either on a pc, a dreambox or even on an old router thats cascaded off the superhub if your really stuck. Generally, DDNS should really be run on whatever your using as a server anyway rather than within a router - that allows for the correct ip address to be set automatically if you were to move the server to another connection (ie, you take a dreambox to a mates house)
 
oh i fully understand that, but cmon, not much of a problem, but also something that should be on the router as standard.

on a note for port forwarding, i forgot to add this . some routers donot like you going out through your network and back in via your external IP they just dont like it.

i.e. if you forward your ports you may not see them working when you check whilst on the same network. try it from a different network.
 
well scrap that, even in r29 of the super hub firmware theres bugs galore. port forwarding from being stable for a week is now as unstable as michael barrymore in an under 18s club.

total shite, even resetting to defaults results in ports not openeing, or openeing and then closing on there own lol.
 
can these hubs be flashed with dd-wrt?

can i plug a modem into it and use it just as a router?

Cheers
MFCGAVMFC

AFAIK, they deactivate the MAC for the old modem when you get the super hub so no you can't use your old modem anymore.
 
I just got the old hub from them today, its up and running and on fw r10 giving me a constant 2.28mb/s download over wireless so will wait and see what happens. I rang them to get it activated as I wanted to make sure I could get my old modem re-activated if I was not happy, they said I could...

Is there any custom fw for the old hubs?
 
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