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Originally Posted by thelongmile
I may be making a rather naive point here but given Netgear make some fairly decent routers, and since all this does really is stick a modem on the end of one, AND Netgear have made cable modems .... then VM must have really done something quite special to balls this up, right?
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Most long time VM Customers will already have their own wireless equipment as in the early days VM did not supply it, so we went out a bought it ourselves
A modem only option (rather than the HUB) or a switchable "Modem" option on the HUB should have been built into the original spec to allow the 1000's of existing customers who already have their own equipment to carry on using it
I suppose now with the proposed release of R28 the modem option is planned
but VM could have avoided many problems and negative comments if they had included the "Modem" option from the start
From a commercial point of view I can understand how VM would want all their customer base on one piece of equipment, as supporting multiple configurations must be a nightmare
But this could have been done over time, and if the quality of the HUB had been better then most customers would have migrated over, as powering just one piece of equipment is better than multiple units
I gave the HUB a fair go, as I liked the idea of just one unit to power up, and the fact it was supported and would be replaced if required by VM,
But the wireless performance was poor and far worse than my original configuration,
But if the HUB improves I will give it another try, but in the meantime I continue to run two separate units