Virgin Media Superhub 2

[Danny133]

Got mine installed today.

Looks nice.

Noticed it can run both 2.5ghz and 5ghz simultaneously ..

It finds both networks names.

Should I now switch all my wireless devices to 5ghz? What's the benefit?

 

[Cup_Phil]

5ghz allows faster connections but a much shorter range and doesn't work through walls well

If your sat next to it use 5ghz - if you're other side of the house use 2.5ghz

 

[Danny133]

So if I want to use wifi in the garden stick to 2.5ghz?

 

[Ronnie R]

Try it, I would imagine 5ghz will cover your whole house unless it's huge!

 

[Ronnie R]

How did you get one of these new hubs anyway?

 

[daveski]

What the man above said?

I've been using my superhub 1 in modem only mode since it arrived, having the new one would mean I could ditch my other router and a couple of cables.

 

[Danny133]

Rang up and moaned like f**k until they agreed to swap.

Looks much nicer and all the ports are now on the back not the side! - so much easier!!

 

[_Tom]

Does it give better range? The superhub one is quite frankly s**t..

 

[Danny133]

So far all Ive had it dropped signal via 5ghz on my iPhone all day :/

 

[sn00p]

I've had one for 2 or so months (was one of the testers) and WiFi has been rock solid on my nexus 4 and mbp. Not had any problems with WiFi, its night and day between it and the sh1.

There are issues relating to broadband connection timeouts but there will be a fix for these soon, and these don't affect me either.

 

[Cup_Phil]

So far all Ive had it dropped signal via 5ghz on my iPhone all day :/

Not suprised - the virgin stuff is s**t

I put mine in modem mode and hooked it up to an airport extreme - never had a problem since

 

[BlakeTillz]

I work for virgin media, with the new super hub 2, depends on what device you connect to it, such as ipads/iphones and new smartphones they can connect to 5ghz and devices like laptops and that can connect to 2.5ghz. This is so it balances out both frequencies on the superhub so that more people can conenct to it in your household. There still might be a few drop outs due to its not long come out. But they are fixing this.

 

[Don]

Also...the 5GHz channel is supposed to be less congested. I have the Superhub 1...and have connected it to a Belkin dual band router and works brilliantly. The Superhub is best used in modem mode, as a wireless device it is the sum total of shite.

 

[Danny133]

I've connected both iPhones the iPad and the Mac mini all via 5ghz .. f**k knows what difference it's making but I did do a speedtest on iPad mini earlier ..

2.5ghz got 25mb and 5 got 65 .. (I'm on 100mb)

 

[Ronnie R]

I had about a 2mb difference on the normal Superhub.
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[BRUN]

the SH2 cant really be any worse than the SH1 so i might ring up and try and get one, the SH1 is awful