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Originally Posted by General Maximus
i they wanted to make up for past mistakes and get consumer confidence back they would setup a contract with Linksys/Cisco
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Pfft. I've seen numerous problems with Linksys and Cisco products spanning the range from cheapo consumer routers to enterprise routers costing 10K+ a pop. They're no more immune to their fair share of problems than any other company.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
I however am not under such an NDA - Huawei.
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Hmm. I've got a distant relative who's pretty high up there. This could get... interesting.
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Originally Posted by dave.m
The lights are most likely plain led's which take a miniscule amount of power. The real drain will come from the router/main cpu chip and wireless radio. Even if there were seperate chips for the router and modem, the user interface would most likely be controlled from the main cpu so switching that off would not likely be an option.
I'm sure we'll find out soon enough once R28 is released.
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As I mentioned earlier, it's an integrated SoC so the modem and CPU are integrated in one chip. "Routers" are just a piece of software running on the CPU.
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Originally Posted by kwikbreaks
I've not seen anybody post up the consumption in bridge mode but there is known to be a discrete WiFi board which could be powered down and although the main processor can't be turned off the switch circuitry presumably could be or at least run at reduced power (some switches have a "green" mode). I imagine the power required by the CPU should also drop with the reduced load.
I guess it all depends on how skilled the firmware coders are and how bothered they are about your leccy bill...
So - probably unchanged then 
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Heh. I wouldn't hold my breath. Yeah there's a seperate switch chip, though even gigabit switches shouldn't take more than a couple watts when idle. Wireless chips like the one in the SH only take ~0.5-2w as well, so there's not a huge amount of scope for saving.
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Originally Posted by BenMcr
Just because it wasn't picked up in testing, doesn't mean it isn't there - what has happened for some customers with the SuperHub since launch proves that.
It looks like Virgin have learnt from that, and whatever they are doing with the firmware this time around is picking up issues before a wider rollout would have done.
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Interesting. Issues that testers have been complaining about for months get ignored, but when there's an issue testers aren't even aware of it's suddenly classed as a show-stopper. Lol.