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- Client62Alessandro Volta
Latency occurs for 3 main reasons: distance to server / game server overload / network congestion.
These are all items that are outside of your control & can be far beyond the VM network.- DavioTuning in
That's the simplified version, reality is more complex... https://www.hitrontech.com/blog/proven-docsis-3-1-is-better-than-docsis-3-0/
- DavioTuning in
Also, other factors - e.g. "A DOCSIS 3.1 cable modem can now utilize a sleep mode, thereby enabling intelligently timed shutoff periods for improved efficiency."
In other words, Virgin is burning my electricity unnecessarily by supplying a modem router with an obsolete networking system.
3.0 = 2006
3.1 = 2013
- jpeg1Alessandro Volta
If you add your own router you will have a much bigger increase in consumption.
- DavioTuning in
Obviously. But is the performance improvement worth it? Data?
- legacy1Alessandro Volta
Their will be no performance improvement just that you have a better router, and wifi and better bufferbloat control
Docsis latency from 3.0 to 3.1 will not change you still be limited to how well the area is which you can use BQM to check
- Roger_GoonerAlessandro Volta
The hub 3 supports DOCSIS 3.1 and is good for M600, so you are getting a suitable hub.
- cje85Trouble shooter
Roger_Gooner wrote:The hub 3 supports DOCSIS 3.1 and is good for M600, so you are getting a suitable hub.
The Hub 3 is DOCSIS 3.0 only, but the difference in latency between 3.0/3.1 is negligible on VM's network.
- Roger_GoonerAlessandro Volta
Oops, I knew the old hub 3 only supports DOCSIS 3.0 and don't know why I made a wrong post. The hubs which support DOCSIS 3.1 are the later hub 4 and hub 5. If you're getting a hub 3 it means that you've subscribed to a speed up to M600.
Having said that, if you're on up to M600 and you have a hub 4 or a hub 5 VM can provide a DOCSIS 3.1 channel both on downstream and upstream for better network performance.
- jpeg1Alessandro Volta
Can't say I've noticed any difference in performance between Hub 2-3-4, all in modem mode of course.
VM will be glad to replace your Hub 2. But they'd rather give you a recycled Hub 3 if it's suitable for your speed, rather than a new 4 or 5.
- HUGH_EFFOUp to speed
I had a hub 3 on M500, and it was rubbish, everytime I tried to download a large file, it would throttle after about 30 seconds, and ended up with a download speed of about 150kb. Engineer swapped out for a hub 5, and now getting 48-50Mibs when downloading large files now. I only ever use the Hub 5 in modem mode as I have an Asus AX mesh system with 3 routers, one for each level of the house. even at the bottom of my garden (160ft) im getting 150mb+ on wifi.
- DavioTuning in
HUGH_EFFO wrote:I had a hub 3 on M500, and it was rubbish...
My hub 3 arrives tomorrow so will soon find out.I'm switching from M250 to M350 at the same time.
I've taken a benchmark of the hub 2 with https://speed.cloudflare.com/ - are there any other tests worth doing to compare and check performance?
- Daniel_EtForum Team
Hi Davio, thank you for your posts.
How have things been since you received your Hub 3?
We'd suggest testing your speed, on a hard wired connection, through speedtest.net.
Information on our estimated broadband speeds can be found in this article here. The minimum guaranteed download speed for the M350 package is 181 Mbps.
Please pop back to us at your earliest convenience.
Regards,
Daniel
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