Re: Wireless switch recommendations

From	eastender <email@domain.com>
Newsgroups	uk.comp.sys.mac
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Subject	Re: Wireless switch recommendations
Organization	virginmedia.com
Date	2017-05-03 14:30 +0100

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On 2017-04-28 11:59:40 +0000, eastender said:

> On 2017-04-28 10:34:46 +0000, RJH said:
> 
>> On 28/04/2017 09:38, eastender wrote:
>>> On 2017-04-28 08:09:50 +0000, RJH said:
>>> 
>>>> On 27/04/2017 16:18, eastender wrote:
>>>>> Just had a brainwave - called Virgin and asked for a router upgrade.
>>>>> After a bit of haggling they agreed to send the latest Superhub 3 for
>>>>> £14.99. This has much better WiFi than the v1 Superhub 2 we have. They
>>>>> don't want the old one so I can use that as the gigabit switch and wifi
>>>>> point.
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Sounds good!
>>>> 
>>>> I'd just add that from a quick/rough calculation, the electricity
>>>> saving would cover a new ethernet hub (to replace the superhub 2) in
>>>> well under a year. You would lose the heat effect of the superhub2 -
>>>> that may or may not matter.
>>> 
>>> I hadn't thought about the power consumption - seems the Superhub 3 is
>>> at the upper end in consumption. Don't know about the 2. But I want to
>>> run two wireless systems so I won't need the standalone hub unless the 3
>>> has great coverage which I doubt as we have a big 3 story house.
>>> 
>> 
>> I'd give it a go with just the 3 - my BT hub's (5 I think) wireless 
>> connects (only 2 out of 3 bars on the iphone, though) across the 
>> longest diagonal of my 3 storey house.
> 
> Yes I will do. I have two wireless printers in my office and the main 
> router is a long way from them so this will probably be the best test. 
> At present though I can't get much of a signal from the Superhub 2 at 
> 2.4 or 5 but it's not the ac version and 3 should also be a lot better.

If anyone wants to do the same don't attempt to use the Superhub 3 as 
the switch as it's hard to configure. Activate it as the cable 
modem/router and then configure the Superhub 2 as a wired/wireless 
switch. Set the 2's IP address to 192.168.0.254, then connect to it and 
disable DHCP and set up/reset up wireless. I did a factory reset of the 
2 and couldn't connect to it on a Mac browser but could on an old XP 
virtual machine.

We now have  2 x 2.4 and 2 x 5 GHz wireless around the house and 2 x 4 
gigabit ethernet. Getting peak rate of 165 mbits/s on Virgin, which is 
rather good, and even about 140 mbits/s wirelessly near the Superhub 3 
which does indeed have much better wifi.

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Wireless switch recommendations  eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-23 13:32 +0100
  Re: Wireless switch recommendations nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-23 10:57 -0400
    Re: Wireless switch recommendations David Kennedy <davidkennedy@nospamherethankyou.invalid> - 2017-04-23 17:05 +0100
      Re: Wireless switch recommendations nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-23 12:15 -0400
        Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-23 18:12 +0100
          Re: Wireless switch recommendations RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2017-04-25 08:08 +0100
  Re: Wireless switch recommendations Krzysztof Staniorowski <nospam@ksx4system.net> - 2017-04-23 15:02 +0000
    Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-23 18:13 +0100
      Re: Wireless switch recommendations Krzysztof Staniorowski <nospam@ksx4system.net> - 2017-04-23 19:23 +0000
  Re: Wireless switch recommendations nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2017-04-24 21:24 +0200
    Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-25 13:40 +0100
  Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-27 16:18 +0100
    Re: Wireless switch recommendations Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@sometimes.sessile.org> - 2017-04-27 23:29 +0100
    Re: Wireless switch recommendations RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2017-04-28 09:09 +0100
      Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-28 09:38 +0100
        Re: Wireless switch recommendations RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2017-04-28 11:34 +0100
          Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-04-28 12:59 +0100
            Re: Wireless switch recommendations eastender <email@domain.com> - 2017-05-03 14:30 +0100

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