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Not the clones subject again!

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The latter being my priority and hence why I love my VMNG300; it works perfectly and has done for the last 2 years.

I'll second that, wouldn't touch the superhub with a bargepole.

I touched my Superhub with a bargepole. It now has two holes in it.

I touched mine with a drill and it now has two external antenna connectors.

Still not as good range as my old Buffalo router was....

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Originally Posted by Hom3r (Post 35453996)

I remember paying for my old Terayon Â£150 IIRC, and still have it.

Back in the day (early noughties) on NTL you had the option of buying or renting your modem. If you bought it upfront, you got a lower monthly sub (about Â£5 a month off, IIRC). Eventually they stopped doing that, and some time later on they stopped giving the "discount" to people who had paid for the modem, to much loud complaining and thread-starting on this very forum.

When I signed up for NTL's 512kb broadband (Roffle!) I did a quick calculation and concluded there was a reasonable chance any modem I bought from them would cough and die long before I had got Â£150 worth out of it. So I just rented my Terry from them. Sure enough, it didn't stay the course.

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Originally Posted by boroboi (Post 35453680)

Cisco aren't exactly the best brand in network technology, either. Just a name that seems to get around a lot.

Cisco is like IBM. There's an old saying - Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Same goes for Cisco really. If the next Superhub was a Cisco box, I wouldn't have any issues with that. Unless of course it's Cisco Linksys. Their stuff just stinks these days.

Thing is, it seems with the superhub that the hardware isn't the entire issue. I'm not sure what sort of chipset is inside the box, but my guess is it'll be some sort of System on a Chip, like so many things now, possibly with a secondary controller to run the modem side of things. Mostly they are Broadcom or Atheros these days. The deciding factor in how good it is is the OS, and the software sitting on this. We've seen this time and time again, with set top boxes (on all platforms, Cable, Satellite, and Terrestrial), as well as modems and routers. Provided Virgin can pick a solid hardware platform, and put some decent code on top, they should be fine. I can't help but feel the current generation could be improved, unless they're seeing a lot of hardware failures, in which case, you can't always fix buggy hardware in software.