Virgin "super" hub.

[Saint_Jonny]

Anyone else got one of these heaps of ****?

 

I'm living in a student house, and it worked out only £6 each a month to get Virgins top of the range 50mb broadband. That's all well and good, but using it wireless with the "super" hub we are using is a ****ing nightmare. I live in the room above the living room where the super hub lives. If I do a speed test in the living room on my laptop using Wi-fi, I get 30mb/s. Sometimes even 40. Go to my room (the room above the superhub room, remember). And I am lucky to get 1mb/s. ONE. Same laptop. My pc is even WORSE.

 

Anyone had similar troubles and have some advice for me? Maybe the PCI wifi card I put in my PC is a bag of ****, I don't know. It reports 4 or 5 bars of signal most of the time though. So all that speed is being ****ed into oblivion as far as I can tell. ITS SO FRUSTRATING!

[Al de Man]

Try turning it on its side and seeing if that increases the signal strength. It may be that its coverage is concentrated outwards to the sides rather than vertically.

[Saint_Jonny]

Thanks Al de Man. Think I've solved the problem partially. Set it up in "modem mode" and have got it routed through another (d-link) router I had going spare. Not getting the speed I would like, but its not causing my blood pressure to shoot up either!

[mightysaints]

We had the same problem with the superhub.works fine now as only the daughters laptop and iPod use the wireless. I ended up wiring cat 5 to the desktop pc Xbox and blueray. Anything other than surfing the net is crap on this hub