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Originally Posted by Skie
They have a wide range of customer types so they really do need to cater to those who don't have a clue about networking or who don't want to spend £50 on another piece of kit. The hub does this, its a good entry level way of getting a household online and will support future speeds up to 400meg.
Eventually when the new firmware is released it will be possible to use it as just a cable modem.
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They were catering for them with stand alone modems and routers. I can see the economics of a hub but they failed with bridge mode not being there out of the box.