Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq

So I've just had my first look at the insides of a Superhub and a basic teardown of the components. I'll post a more comprehensive info later, but long story short, it's a Netgear CG3101D v2 (which we already knew). It's an all Broadcom solution built around a Broadcom BCM3380 SoC (which some already knew) - it's a fairly common and reasonably stable (but outdated) SoC found in a few Cisco CPE's as well so by the looks of it most of the problems are firmware related, not crappy hardware.

I won't bother arguing for or against VM botching the firmware for their own reasons but hopefully it'll get fixed in time rather than being permanantly faulty. That said it's made in china and the circuit layout is pretty meh, so it might be built cheap too. I'd need a closer look to figure that out for sure.

On another note the wireless comes as a seperate mini-pci card (of the type commonly found in laptops) which makes it bigger, more complex, more expensive, and more power consuming that it needs to be, though it does let VM upgrade the wireless independantly without needing a new MB for the SH.