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Originally Posted by borrissey
They should do a super hub and a modem only separate items. Then the customer can pick what they want.
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Whilst I do partly agree with you, I can also understand why not. Basically they are trying to steer away from the situation of having to support multiple devices and the one fits all scenario is the simplest, most cost affective way of doing it.
To be fair, it does make very good business sense.
Phil
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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
They've had modem mode working for ages. I'm inclined to believe that the delay is exactly what they said - because they decided to bug fix stuff in the router/wifi code before releasing it - certainly that would impact a lot more people than modem mode ever will. It will be interesting to see how well they've done that. Quite why they couldn't have satisfied those demanding modem mode earlier is a bit of a mystery to me.
I guess they are between a rock and a hard place - criticised for delays, criticised for lack of information, and absolutely crucified if this release is another cock up that screws up streaming again or something similar.
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From what I know, the firmware is not written "in house" but comes from an external source and has pretty much been re written for R28. (If anyone knows different feel free to correct me)
It could well be that the delay is there as opposed to VM. As with any company of this nature, they are always at the mercy of the supplier to some degree, in exactly the same way we are.
VM only received R28 yesterday and it will have to go through in house testing first so my estimate is approx 10 days before beta roll out
Phil