Virgin "Super" Hub crapness

[Nick 50]

So we recently moved. We had Sky package and generally worked fine. But when we come to Sky moving everything to the new place, they thought it great customer service that they couldn't move the Broadband/Phone for 4 weeks!!

So we rang Virgin. They could install everything on the day we moved, great we thought.

What an utter pile of wank the wireless signal is!

Countless calls to Virgin to no avail.

The mrs spoke to her mate and happened to mention it. She had exactly the same problem and has went through 5 Shitty Hubs. In the end she was told to plug in a "wireless sender" and use the Super Hub in modem mode.
She has had no wireless signal issue since.

Can someone explain/ebay link what a "wireless sender" is please?

I tried it on e-bay and i'm just getting TV signal sender things
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[ThoughtContro...]

I think Wireless Access Point is the term you're seeking.
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[CaNsA]

The hub is indeed rubbish.
Modem mode + Linksys wrt54g = awesome wifi in my gaff

[Pete.]

Known problem with the superhubs. Many people upgrade to them, set the hub to modem mode and use the wireless router that they had with their old cable modem package to serve the wifi.

Most wireless routers will work in this manner - it's called 'transparent bridge' or 'wireless bridge' mode. All you have to do is pick one.
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[CaNsA]

This will do the trick.
£14 quid + 2 quid P&P
https://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=350650278935&clk_rvr_id=429857224858

[Nick 50]

Thank you very much guys.

CaNsA, we had a Linksys wrt54g quite a few years back too, I think we binned it
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[CaNsA]

[Rob W]

[CaNsA]

Yeppers,

set hub to Modem Mode, connect cable from #1 on hub to the internet socket on the netgear.

[Rob W]

[P.addy]

I've opened various Superhubs now.

The antenna inside (2 of them..) are literally 2 bits of wire and a small circuit board.

They are terrible, definite known issue and modem only mode is pretty much the only fix.

I do not use wireless so never needed to change to that though.

[CaNsA]

[el_oso]

the superhub works flawlessly on the 5Ghz band. My laptop is in the loft. Router is on the bottom floor. Still max out the internet connection on the 60 meg package
The 2.4 GHz band is utter wank. I do believe the problem is in the firmware though. Can't remember the exact settings, but there was one on the 2.4Ghz band that worked, iirc I think it was with no encryption
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[Rob W]

Well, it wasn't until I set it all back up again and got a speedtest result of 20MB, that I realised the reason I did away with the original router was because it couldn't handle more than 20, and I'm on the 30MB line now.

:facepalm: extraordinaire
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[CaNsA]

My wired computer always gets full speed (60mb) but my wifi is a G network and max's out @ 2mb at most.

Ill upgrade to a N network one day.

[P.addy]

You'll not see more than 28mb over a 54g connection.

The superhubs wireless antennas are nothing like the laptop ones, at least the laptops have their own wireless cards, these are just a stripped out 834DG with some updated parts on like gig ports

Working with Virgin Media helps when you complain about the shitehub

My wired PC gets the stated speeds all day long which is a bonus

[CaNsA]

[P.addy]

Damn guy has lots of time on his hands

The only laptops I've opened are the Acer 6920 and a Lenovo T420.

Both of which had 2 wires from the wireless card on the mobo to a stupidly big antenna, not the shitty virgin media ones

[CaNsA]

[woodall57]

most routers/APs shipped from ISPs are normally wank anyway, i have a shitty thomson one that i use downstairs and i flashed a link sys router with DD WRT and used that as a repeater, works good but the thomson one is shite, i want something with better features so i bought a cisco e4200. hasnt come yet though but should hopefully be a good replacement for the thomson with it been cisco haha
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[P.addy]

I've tried 5Ghz, both the Mac and Nexus connect ok, get around 80mb out of the 120mb.

The T420, T61 and Xoom do not connect. Point blank refuse.

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[Charlie]