Hub 5 Firmware Downgrade

The most fabulous part of the so called smart security is it sends all DNS requests to another country over this wonderful network that brings with it a questionable approach to peering and backhaul, via groundbreaking variability of latency. 

Whilst many claim “it’s cable,” as someone who’s lived in the USA it’s absolutely not standard for cable to create BQMs that appear like some sort of mole hill.

It’s very new to me. When I was a student here in a 9 bed house the single band sky hub (behind a sofa) was not touched all year and handled 30 to 60 devices (considering socials held and constant footfall). Best of all it seemed to send WiFi equally in all directions. This was 13 years ago. It was 40 Meg. 

Fast forward 13 years and we struggle to retain the allocation of 15 numbers over DHCP to 10 light bulbs and a few mobiles laying on the side of the sofa. It feels like I’m trying to setup networking before windows included any networking software on DOS. That's the sort of reliability this hub has. 

I just love that it’s got WPA3, you can choose security or 5Ghz. You turn one thing on, it turns off something else. A hub of enormous opportunity cost.

Now, I’m going to hit reply but my smart security that’s protecting me with the generic issuing of “protected you against password theft” is a bit slow with the DNS somewhere located somewhere in the ether. 

I do hope you get this before next week as it checks all my packets via enforced DNS interception (the only thing that works so well is the only thing I hate) and manual four eye checks of my entire browsing history, and Alexa voice logs in Bombai. 

The hub 5 makes me think of Pinnocio as the antenna must point forwards like his big long nose. It’s like a beam of light out the front that goes narrow and far (behind the hub you may as well be in a metal panic room you won’t see any WiFi). 😂

It was naturally rolled out, I am not part of any trials that I am aware of. The connection just worked, as it did before I joined Virginmedia on every other isp I’ve had (sky, BT, TalkTalk). Since joining I’ve had endless issues with DHCP, reboots, WiFi going off and on and off and on, 5Ghz vanishing, resets on its own accord. This was the only period where my connection seemed half decent and that smart security has reverted me back to what feels like the stone ages before internet began (as watching it cycle around reboots isn’t much fun).