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Originally Posted by BenMcr
How exactly? On what broadband service?
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I've tested via my JANET connection at work as well as in a synthetic environment at home. Neither of these qualify as a standard "broadband" service but neither was Smallnetbuilder's test environment. Point is their numbers are consistently wrong in my experience, so I wouldn't take them as a reason to not supply a unit without doing your own tests. In any case "because it has 100mbps ports" does not mean it is incapable of 30/50/100mb service.
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So that means the existing modems will be layer 3 then? So the SuperHub will bridge in exactly the same way
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Yes, existing modems are layer 3. They're actually layer 4, 5, 6, and 7 as well. And existing modems have layer 3+ bugs too (few and far between, and very rare, but they do exist). Only with the Superhub the bridging will be going through a device that already has known bugs in it's routing behaviour. There is no guarantee that it will suddenly become perfect thanks to bridge mode; though if they're fixing the routing bugs as part of implementing bridge mode then bridge mode actually becomes somewhat redundant.