Cheers , calling it a super hub with a poor signal strength isn't good and the consensus is its of poor quality, but I will give it a go…
I haven't had to reboot my Apple router for years. Ray On 4 Nov 2012, at 19:40, Richard Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > I switched to a Super Hub after using a Buffalo Air Station for years. If > anything the wifi reach is worse and it seems to drop the connection from > time to time on my laptop. It asks for the password but will not reconnect. I > have to 'turn it on and turn it off again' every so often to make it work. > Ethernet is fine... > > On 4 Nov 2012, at 19:11, Toby Leighton wrote: > >> General consensus is that they are a bit flaky, but then virginmedia push >> updates out to them automatically to fix things. Since you have an existing >> Apple setup, if you are happy with how its all performing what I'd do is set >> the virgin hub into "bridge mode" and connect that by ethernet to the wan >> connection on the apple airport that looks like a flower. >> >> This is probably similar to how your current virgin modem is working, and it >> essentially leaves your network alone and puts the super-hub into dumb modem >> mode. this way you wont need to go around re-joining all of your devices to >> the new wireless networks and re-doing any port forwarding rules you may >> have. >> >> I don't have much hands on experience of recent virginmedia kit, but one >> thing I do know about apple time capsule and airport extreme boxes, is that >> they work best when they are in charge of the network. >> >> On 4 November 2012 19:04, Ray Packham <[email protected]> wrote: >> HI all >> I have been upgraded to 60meg on my virgin landline, now they are going to >> give me a Virgin super doooper virgin hub. Ive read mixed reviews about this >> Netgear bit of kit, and as Ive an apple router at the moment that has never >> given me trouble I'm a bit dubious about it. I wondered if anybody else was >> using Virgin's super hub thingy and what experiences they have of it? >> >> >> Ray >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Sussex Mac User Group" group. >> To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB.
