My hub 1 failed and they replaced it (free of charge) with the hub 2.
It's a much slimmer router, similar to the current NowTV device and is more suitable for horizonal sitting, than the previous upright 'brick' standing.
There are no longer any illuminted 'happy faces' on the front, just 3 tiny pin LED's for on, internet and wireless and thankfully, not those hi-brite type either.
I've not tested its 802.11ac speed as oddly, I found the hub2 was faster on 802.11g than it was on 802.11n! Weird. Could be my conditions though. But in theory 5GHZ should be faster albeit not able to penetrate walls as easily as 2.4ghz and without the range. If I can find my AC1600 driver and a flux capacitor 😉 I'll see if I can connect and figure out its max speed.
It's default settings were fine 2.4GHZ (40mhz channel 6) and 5GHZ (80mhz channel 36) with 2.4hz and 5ghz syncronised. Although I am only using the 2.4ghz at the moment.
As we all know, the HUB 1 was notorius for those weekly wireless disconnections - for no apparent reason - whereas the hub 2 seems more stable. Up to now anyway.
It has two yellow gigabit ports, which might seem a bit mean. But you can always connect one to connect to a gigabit switch for more outputs and the switch will do all the heavy lifting anyway.
I didn't notice too much difference in the menues; maybe a nicer layout and colour ?? The only thing I did was switch off UpNp for security reasons, but it worked right away, once I put the new password into every every device.
