Tearing my hair out, trying to swap white pods to black pods..

I would be surprised if VM provide you with black pods. You cannot ‘pick and choose’ what equipment VM supply and you have stated that the current pods are meeting the VM guarantee of 30Mbps.

Thanks.  I'm not looking to 'claim' under the minimum speed guarantee, just get speeds anywhere close the the speed I'm paying for.  The black pods will enable this, the white ones that I have won't.  Black pods will give me close to the speeds I'm paying for in the rooms they're in when I connect them to ethernet and use their wired backhaul ability.

Having cables available step forward and use Wireless Access Points. Choose good brands  and be totally free of the zero configurability and total nuisance of VM Pods ( white & black ).

Thanks all,  I understand that upgrading speed doesn't in itself necessarily increase speeds to the devices but in my case I knew the change from the old Hub 3 to the WiFi 6 enabled 5 would - and it has made quite a difference.  However, I would imagine that anyone with a Hub 5 and 1Gbps connection, if they're going to be sent Pods, then they would be sent the black ones as they can at least theoretically support the speeds they're paying for.  The white ones don't support them in theory or obviously in practice.  I'm just trying to get the best speeds I can with the 'standard' equipment and when I upgraded I was told it was a simple process once the Hub arrived to have them swapped.  I've run cables to where the Pods will go and this should give me massive improvements in WiFi speeds around the house if I can connect black pods to them so they use the wired backhaul.