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Originally Posted by davidthornton
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.
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The hardware and firmware are both already capable of it.
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Originally Posted by davidthornton
What we don't seem to know is if Virgin Media asked any customers what they wanted before they commisioned the Superhub design and, if they did, how many customers they asked, and what the responses were. I don't remember how exactly the Superhub came to be. I think I just read about how it was coming on here. Was there a consultation and, if so, how extensive was it? If there was no consultation, who at Virgin Media made the decisions about the initial specification of the Superhub and, besides the "technical support savings" arguement, what were the reasons for designing it as it currently is?
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We do know and they did. VM knew customers wanted bridge mode well in advance of the Superhub ever being released. Various beta testers on this forum can attest to have told them personally.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
The VMNG300 is bigger than the 256 because one is DOCSIS 2 and the other is DOCSIS 3. The SuperHub is bigger than the VMNG300 because it also is a router and includes antenna for that internally to the housing, which I assume have to be a certain distance away from the main electronics to avoid interferance etc
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The wireless and router hardware used in these things is roughly the size of a one pound coin. Hardly explains nor justifies the rest of the size increase.
Again, I could tape a router, two VMNG300 circuits and a switch together and fit it in a box smaller than the SH.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
I can't comment on things in which I had no involvement.
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Were you involved in the development of the Superhub? Because you seem to be commenting on it quite a lot.
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Originally Posted by davidthornton
Obviously the designers have also frustrated other customers, at the moment, by not offering bridge mode so those wanting to upgrade for better speed are required to reconfigure the way their other network equipment works.
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From what was said earlier it seems the designers offered a bridge mode and VM purposefully disabled it.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Yes I do - the R28 firmware is design to fix a lot of the other issues along with the modem mode, and yes they are
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It doesn't "fix" the fact that some people just don't want it.
You can fix a knife all you want but if all I want is a fork, you can damn well keep it.
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Originally Posted by KenK
16x14 = 224. 20.5x19 = 389.5. 389.5 / 224 = 1.738839285714286. Nearly 74% bigger. Unless your calculator comes up with different numbers.
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I'd say the volume of space taken by the SH in use is about double that of the VMNG300, based on the fact the cables stick out sideways and therefore consume the same amount of space again.
On the other hand the VMNG300 doesn't include a router, so unless you took the casing off and combined a router into it, you'd have to add the seperate space of the router into consideration, and it's not a whole lot different.
That said it's still a lot bigger than it needs to be, and if airflow was really the problem, we have this wonderful invention called a fan. Still, some people have reported the SH consumes 3-5x as much power as your average router, and therefore probably produces considerably more heat, and fanless solutions being preferable that *might* explain the extra size. More an excuse than justification but that's the only thing I can think of.