VM Router Firmware Change

TROTER · 15-09-2015, 15:35

I noticed today that my supper hub two has rebooted with a different firmware (V1.01.29), which i think is a older version?
Also a conciqence of this is that I have lost my third upstream channel that a gained a few weeks ago. I opted out of the virgin Media Wi-Fi scheme and wanted to know if this was linked?

Kushan · 15-09-2015, 15:45

It is an older firmware and is due to severe issues found with the newer firmware. Nothing to do with you opting out, everyone is in the same boat.

TROTER · 15-09-2015, 15:49

Thanks good to know, any way to regain the third upstream?

Kushan · 15-09-2015, 15:59

No and you almost certainly don't need it.

TROTER · 15-09-2015, 16:14

I can only go on my own experience but after gaining the third upstream channel Xbox live performance improved for me as it did when two upstream channels became available.
I did recently get round to updating the firmware on my Linksys EA4500 from the classic to the newest version as i learned how not to activate the cloud shenanigans! I will put the improvement down to that thanks.

Sephiroth · 15-09-2015, 17:44

The third upstream channel was added to support the Public WiFi and was thus withdrawn when the service flow was removed.

alanbjames · 15-09-2015, 18:17

Is the public wifi ever gonna take place or has it been shelved?

Sephiroth · 15-09-2015, 19:18

Not that I've been formally told, but it'll roll out eventually. Too much publicity has passed for it to be permanently shelved. At least imo.

General Maximus · 15-09-2015, 23:23

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Originally Posted by Kushan

No and you almost certainly don't need it.

I did, I don't know whether it was just buggy firmware but my upstream regularly went up to 2MB/sec (16mbits) when I had 3 channels.

Sephiroth · 16-09-2015, 07:33

Damn, mon General. I just didn't think to test upstream speed when I had 3 (sometimes 4) channels. I did notice from the stats that the symbol rate stayed the same and I remained on 16QAM.

Kushan · 16-09-2015, 08:26

I didn't notice any change to my upload speeds when I had 3 upstreams.

General Maximus · 16-09-2015, 15:08

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Originally Posted by Sephiroth

Damn, mon General. I just didn't think to test upstream speed when I had 3 (sometimes 4) channels. I did notice from the stats that the symbol rate stayed the same and I remained on 16QAM.

tbh I didn't look at the symbol rate, I did however post a couple of screen dumps at the time showing the 3 channels and one of them being qam64. I'll see if I can dig them out.

Edit: here you go, me and Kush are towards the bottom.

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ls-page-4.html

I also posted a screen dump from my desk showing my torrent client overlay of the upload speed as well (half way down)

http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/12...ls-page-7.html

Sephiroth · 16-09-2015, 17:29

Did you keep the operational config? Because you can still get 20 meg if that's what you're set up for at 16QAM and just about on a single channel.

Broken Hope · 16-09-2015, 17:38

What was the modem mode issue with the newer firmware anyway? I never noticed any issues.

Sephiroth · 16-09-2015, 17:45

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Originally Posted by Broken Hope

What was the modem mode issue with the newer firmware anyway? I never noticed any issues.

On SH2 v2.01.03 firmware, modem mode users with certain routers that used the Broadcast flag (you can Google that!) but didn't allow a choice of Broadcast flag found itself on the wrong side of what would be accepted as a request to be connected. I.e. they couldn't get a WAN IP address.