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lol, I love you two..

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Originally Posted by pip08456 (Post 35238036)

BTW- there is nothing wrong with the Welsh people (except those from North Wales!)

:shocked::shocked:Hey!! Whats wrong with North Wales????:shocked::shocked:

Cheers
Grim(UpNorth)

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 35238130)

:shocked::shocked:Hey!! Whats wrong with North Wales????:shocked::shocked:

Cheers
Grim(UpNorth)

The girls are easier in the south.:D

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Originally Posted by craigj2k11 (Post 35237988)

your safe pip, but nopanic is about 10 minutes away from me and needs to be careful ;) :D :D

You sending your dad round ?

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35238131)

The girls are easier in the south.:D

Hairy though ..

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Originally Posted by Nopanic (Post 35238139)

You sending your dad round ?

Hairy though ..

Not something that bothered me last time I went down there which was many moons ago and we still had mines.:D

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35238131)

The girls are easier in the south.:D

And as we say - they drink 'Soft Southern Jessy' beer:p:

And BTW, 'UpNorth' isn't Wales, but Gods own country - Yorkshire!!

Cheers
Grim

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Originally Posted by GrimUpNorth (Post 35238142)

And as we say - they drink 'Soft Southern Jessy' beer:p:

And BTW, 'UpNorth' isn't Wales, but Gods own country - Yorkshire!!

Cheers
Grim

Talking about north of Swansea in the valleys, some sweet memories.:D

so about the VMNG ..

I posted earlier to get the thread back on topic. If there is nothing further to dicuss then I might as well close the thread.

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Originally Posted by Nopanic (Post 35238139)

You sending your dad round ?

i can do if you want?

so are we going to get any more info from anyone in the know, does anyone want to give me their direct dial number in VM and you can see my account for yourself?

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35237692)

People seem to think that the stock they are using is never ending but sooner rather than later they will run out and people will have to accept the Superhub and even if the is a new one coming out you will just receive whatever version that is on the shelf or in the van.

Of course this precludes the possibilities of a new hub being released and/or a reissue of the VMNG300, neither on the horizon but completely possible if the higher ups decided that was the best way to go.

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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet (Post 35237773)

To be quite honest VM can easily create a different configuration file for each of Superhub and VMNG300, and indeed this will be required for 50Mb.

Kinda like the way there is a legacy network for the Ambit 250/255/256 and an overlay for the hub/superhub/VMNG300. Shouldn't be too hard for VM to run different configs in tandem since they already do it, I agree. I know far less about it than you but it makes perfect sense.

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Originally Posted by BenMcr (Post 35237792)

However, as I've said before, 100Mbit has been SuperHub since launch, so there should be zero reason for it not to be installed with one. Any customer that orders it is aware of what it comes with, and every tech knows what it should be installed with. If the customer doesn't want the SuperHub they shouldn't get 100Mbit

I guess, but in cases where the customer already has a VMNG300 and is perfectly happy with it, or has had a run of faulty superhubs, then it seems using the modem-only option is the best solution rather than have a customer put up with sub-standard service. Seems like these kinds of exceptional circumstances are acceptable times to compromise, giving VM more time to work out the numerous bugs with their underwhelming flagship CPE.

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Originally Posted by Masque (Post 35237806)

The VMNG300 should not have been allowed to be issued after it was withdrawn and that is my personal thoughts on the issue, as it causes people to call up for a device that is no longer supplied by Virginmedia.

An admission that it is more your opinion than VM policy. Good. Nice to know. That can be retroactively applied to all the other times you've downplayed the importance of that particular modem, I think.

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Originally Posted by Welshchris (Post 35237814)

The Whole point of having it all D3 kit was to eventually make it easier to upgrade between platforms with as little cost and effort as possible.

Absolutely. Something the VMNG300 is more than capable of doing. Seeing how well it handles 30Mbps makes me eager to bump it up to 100Mbps when the time comes, rather than when I had the superhub on 20Mb and it would fall apart at the first sign of serious networking.

...and we're back on topic.

not to mention the fact that someone on 50mb with VMNG may have bought hundreds of pounds worth of routing kit and then get given a lesser device, regardless of whether it works or not

Exactly Craig. That's what happened to me and I'm hardly alone. Most telling though, when I turned off DHCP and had it second in line running as a wireless N/gigabit AP it still sucked, proving to me the routing part of the superhub is very weak indeed.

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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes (Post 35238196)

well it is made by netgear after all

lets see what joy bridge mode throws at us

Just to throw a spanner in the works and to add to the topic.

It has been said that the VMNG300 can only operate on 4 downstream bonded channels. It must be disposed of because of this due to the way VM wish to go with bonding more channels for higher speed (future proofing! ).

All the VMNG300 needs is a firmware upgrade to enable 8 downstream channnel bonding.

Unless Ben, Masque or Nopanic would care to say different.