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You'd think that, but nearly everything the hub and/or modem does is controlled by the CMTS equipment at the other end. What devices it allows to connect, how they're allowed to connect, and what services/interfaces are available, what ports are open, etc. are all instructed from their end. They could probably turn off the web UI remotely if they wanted to, so I guess if the modem suddenly loses contact with the network it might panic and just get confused what it should be doing. Or it could be a totally unrelated bug.