[davidthornton]

Originally Posted by BenMcr

Nope. The SuperHub cannot do this, as I said earlier

I know it cannot do this at the moment but could it be made to do this with a firmware upgrade? If you've answered this question, this particular way, before I apologise. I know "BT Fon" like services were previously mentioned to a degree.

Possibly, because the majority of customers don't and won't use bridge mode, because they would much rather 'plug in and go' - which they weren't doing before. They were getting the modem installed and then phoning Virgin because they could get the router to work with the modem for whatever reason or get the router set up on Wireless etc.

For all those that couldn't get their own or VM supplied router working with their VM supplied modem, how many had already got it working and were happily using the service without difficulty? Why force them to change?

Very little. If they are, then that's their own choice. But then I don't believe the majority of customers are that ignorant of how to follow the setup instructions provided with the SuperHub.

Hopefully not, but some might consider it easier to plug their already working combined router/wireless access point into the Superhub rather than reconfigure # number of devices to use a new wireless network. It depends how bothered they are and it's something VM won't be able to collect statistics about.

[Not very. To be honest, I don't expect the 10Mbit Hub to be around indefinately. Once the costs to make the SuperHub reduce enough, then I bet everyone will get one

I also thought this.

Actually I'm guessing they'll treat it exactly the same as they do with the current standalone modems and ask a customer to connect their PC direct to the correct 'modem only' port of the SuperHub to rule out any problems with the customers own router.

I hope so. When bridge mode is active on a Superhub, does only port 1 on the LAN side of the device function for pass through or do all four work as one and the same?

Not going to happen.

Probably not but people do change their minds! Perhaps we'll see why VM want to push the Superhub so much in the coming years. It is all about giving VM more control over the user experience, for whatever reasons they decide to state. Aside from reduced support costs, and related matters, I suspect that other commercial benefits will be revealed. I'll also be interested to see how long VM allow some users to "hang on" to their VMNG300's for, if/when everyone has moved to the DOCSIS3 network, which only the VMNG300, Superless hub, and Superhub work with.