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Well it was an opinion - and certified/recertified means the same to me.
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Also it just doesn't add up. Why would Netgear/VM certify the SuperHub in May 2010 and then within 7 months purporsely invalidate that certification?
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See my Conspiracy theory bit earlier. The particular "invalidation" has the indirect side effects of increasing average speedtest scores for VM users and decreasing average speedtest scores for non-VM (superhub) users. I guess that's more important than, say, getting consumers to choose a product because of its certification since we know they decided in the end not to give anyone any choice in the matter anyway.
What else doesn't add up is why would Netgear/VM bother certifying the Superhub and yet never actually bothering to make use of that certification, for example by not claiming it's certified, or putting the logo on the box or device. The whole point of certification after all is being licensed to use the "WiFi certified" logo and branding. As I say, since VM are forcing everyone to take a superhub on certain tariffs, it makes no difference to them if a user wants to choose it or not because of it's certification - whereas speedtest results as we all know matter a lot to VM.
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It's Netgear that write the firmware, not VM. VM ask for features and/or bug fixes, but it's Netgear that complete that. So you are saying that Netgear are that bad at things that they can't keep their own firmware from 'invalidating' itself
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Well no, VM requested a specific change to the default settings on the firmware that makes it no longer compliant. Netgear obeyed because VM told them to.