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Canth
Tutor
Apr 15, 2016
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Nighthawk R8000 to Virgin Media Super Hub 2 Connection problem.

My R8000 will not connect to the virgin media super hub at 1.0 Gbps. I have a 150 meg line and through the R8000 I only get 96 Mbps. My local area network is set to the following: Speed = 1.0 Gbps....
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  • Canth's avatar
    Canth
    Apr 19, 2016

    OK I will look into that. Thanks again.

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Canth
Tutor
Apr 16, 2016

I will try that.

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Canth
Tutor
Apr 17, 2016

I have plugged the Mac into the WAN port and I get 1000/Full.

It still goes back to 100/Full when I put the VM hub in the WAN port.

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    TheEther
    Guru
    Apr 17, 2016

    Are your Ethernet cables straight-through or crossover?  It shouldn't matter, but try using the other type than you are currently using between the R8000 WAN port and VM hub.  If that still doesn't help, then use the advice of netwrks.

    • Canth's avatar
      Canth
      Tutor
      Apr 18, 2016

      My cable is a straight through cat 6. I tried a crossover cat 5E cable and it made no difference.

       

      I got a Netgear ProSafe 5-Port Gigabit Desktop switch and connected it to the VM modem and then the R8000 to the switch.

      The results I got are below:

       

      WAN = 1000M/Full

      LAN 1 = 1000M/Full

      LAN 2 = Link Down

      LAN 3 = 100M/Full

      LAN 4 = 1000M/Full

      2.4G WLAN b/g/n = 600M

      5G WLAN a/n/ac = 1300M

      5G WLAN 2 a/n/ac = 1300M

       

      I will now look at the netwrks.

       

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        TheEther
        Guru
        Apr 18, 2016

        Well, your WAN port speed is now 1 Gbps, so I'd say that netwrks was right.  You should be able to get your full 150 Mbps through the R8000, now.