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Originally Posted by thenry
anyone if the second contractor has started supplying VM with SHs yet?
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It seems, from these forums, that the new build will be made by Huawei. Now, whilst Huawei makes 3G sticks that seem fine to me, my experience of Huawei routers is that they really do have appaling build quality.
I would buy a Netgear over a Huawei any day. Even if they are the same design with the same firmware, it's the build quality that would count the Huawei out for me every time.
In my experience, Netgear is fine. Granted, they do tend to have a lot of firmware bugs but Netgear is noteable for releasing update after update until they get it right. They seem to update even old routers for a long time. Of course, it depends if VM are committed to the same strategy for the Superhub because Netgear are not doing the updates alone in this case, but so far VM do seem to be updating the Superhub. VM were not so keen to update their custom Netgear WGR614 they used to provide however, so we can only hope their attitude has improved since then and this is not just a flash in the pan.
I would try to get your Superhub in now, to make sure you're not given a Huawei knock-off of the Netgear design. Huawei have a very poor record on the router front.