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KingDaveRa · 01-01-2011, 14:57

I'm rather open to the idea of the Superhub, but my concern is they do with it like they have previously with the supplied modems, and like Sky et al do with their ADSL routers, which is to nobble them - I can fully understand it from their POV as it means the user can't fiddle, and tbh in most cases doesn't need to. Heck, back in the days of DSL I fiddled with my routers and broke the config, and was basically dead in the water until I flattened the whole config and started again! I even messed myself up when the upload upgrade came around as I'd put in some borked QOS settings which limited my speed to 768k no matter what. That took a bit of fiddling to figure out - the modem said 2 Meg up, but all the speedtests begged to differ! But I've always been aware of that when fiddling - I break it, it's my problem. There's plenty of people out in the user base who will break something without realising it, then blame the ISP (I've seen people do this).

So if the Superhub does give a reasonable amount of room to fiddle then that's fine, as long as it does one day give the ability to run in bridged mode so those of us who insist on running a DD-WRT router or something, can.

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KingDaveRa Inactive Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Aylesbury, Bucks Age: 43 Services: Broadband Gamer, Phone M, Tivo V6. Posts: 269	Re: Virgin to give new Superhub out. I'm rather open to the idea of the Superhub, but my concern is they do with it like they have previously with the supplied modems, and like Sky et al do with their ADSL routers, which is to nobble them - I can fully understand it from their POV as it means the user can't fiddle, and tbh in most cases doesn't need to. Heck, back in the days of DSL I fiddled with my routers and broke the config, and was basically dead in the water until I flattened the whole config and started again! I even messed myself up when the upload upgrade came around as I'd put in some borked QOS settings which limited my speed to 768k no matter what. That took a bit of fiddling to figure out - the modem said 2 Meg up, but all the speedtests begged to differ! But I've always been aware of that when fiddling - I break it, it's my problem. There's plenty of people out in the user base who will break something without realising it, then blame the ISP (I've seen people do this). So if the Superhub does give a reasonable amount of room to fiddle then that's fine, as long as it does one day give the ability to run in bridged mode so those of us who insist on running a DD-WRT router or something, can.