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Originally Posted by Peter_
Oddly enough all those stores do say that about each other plus they all go on about price comparisons, Virgin Media does not have any real competition so what they say goes with regards to how they supply their services.
You may get to keep your VMNG300 and will probably struggle with your connection as the 8 downstream rollout progresses, and when the VMNG300 fails it will need replacing and the replacement will be the Superhub.
The are still people out their with very old modems and we even come across the Terayon Tailfin on the NTL side and even the Motorola SB3100 on the Telewest side, and these modems struggle even on 10Mb so even if you manage to hold on to that device you will be the equivalent of those few customers with basically outdated equipment incapable of running at 100% capacity on the network.
The VMNG300 may have been tested at higher speeds but not on the 8 channel platform, many other high end devices right off the shelf were tested but again that option was not taken up.
I personally believe that we should have 2 brands running on the network and you would get the relevant device depending on which CMTS your area had installed, and those 2 brands are Cisco and Motorola forget about Netgear or generic kit such as the VMNG300 they should have bought kit that was 100% compatible with the local networks.
Talking about generic kit, sometimes you go to the chemist and instead of the brand of drugs you are used to they give you a cheaper brand and the coating gives you a really bad cough and you have to insist on switching to the genuine brand which eventually gets rid of the cough, I have been down this route and it does fit with what most of you post about the equipment supplied.
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there opne bad reason for having multi brands regardless of compatbilty, esicpally in this day and age, who is to say netgear wont go under in 3 months, then what will virign do cause they wont have a supplier for the modme and they need to rush out a new make and model to replace it meaning problems, they shpoud have different types a cisco, motorola, netgear etc and if a cusotmer doesnt liek one they should offer a different maek and model but it wont happen an in way i hope netgear goes under (even though i have commerical netgear stuff) so virign learns a leason