Virgin Media "upto 60mb" - apparently you HAVE to use their superhub router?

[Paul the 6th]

just phoned them back, free super hub and gone from 20mb to 30mb. The guy did try to romance me into thinking that 60mb would be the best of both worlds (like some sort of digital gsx-r 750). Fastest bit torrent is about 2.5mb a sec at its hottest. Which is quick enough

Originally Posted by tigersaw

I went from 6 meg to 37 meg with BT
Nothing ever got any faster, save the speed tests

Limited by the other end.

course HD TV would have been a struggle at 6meg

[PyroUK]

I have a super hub and its ****e, as said before wireless is pants. I switched it to modem mode and used an old Belkin router I had but for some reason my housemate couldn't connect to it so had to switch back to the super hub.

Also I hope all that was free? As they are rolling out speed upgrades across the board, 20meg will cease to exist as 30 will be the lowest and you would have gotten the bump to that anyway.

In terms of your bit torrent, have you played with the settings? And also multiply the speed shown by 10 to get your proper speed to compare to your broadband. So if it say 1.8mbs on torrent it should be 18 in broadband speed speak.

times 8 not 10.

Bytes to bits.

you can use both routers wireless BTW if you connect them with ethernet cables.

[PyroUK]

Ah it was close enough!

The super hub didn't like having the router running while connected to another router hence modem mode.

[Paul the 6th]

awesome, might stick it on modem mode and see if the existing netgear manages ok, it's been fine the whole time I've had it, and everything works, windows laptop, iMac, iPad, phones etc..

[PyroUK]

17.6 down speed there! Very nice!

And yeah if you don't have multiple people sharing the net it should be ok but we had about 10 things at a time connecting and it was only his POS Linux laptop, pos Nokia and pos htc that wouldn't connect.

It's BS... I'm getting 90 Mbit right now on the modem version before the SuperHub came along, and I'd probably get the full 120 if I could be bothered to connect with wires.

[Paul the 6th]

that was my thinking Oli, unless like spank speculated that the super hub was a bespoke bit of kit doing some fancy switching and processing (the technical shiz is beyond me at this point btw) must just be a money spinner...

Originally Posted by PyroUK

Ah it was close enough!

The super hub didn't like having the router running while connected to another router hence modem mode.

have to change the router settings and at the very least set up fixed IP between them.

Originally Posted by PyroUK

17.6 down speed there! Very nice!

And yeah if you don't have multiple people sharing the net it should be ok but we had about 10 things at a time connecting and it was only his POS Linux laptop, pos Nokia and pos htc that wouldn't connect.

often changing the wireless security solves that.