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AndyCalling · 19-09-2012, 20:27

I'm currently alright with my Shub, but I have no illusions. It is very clear that the Shub is superior to very few, if any, similar boxes that are currently on sale with the spec to handle 120meg broadband.

This being obviously the case (even for the most accepting Shub owners like me), it is rather misleading for us to tell people searching for help that the Shub is 'super' in any way. Not a nice thing to do to new forum visitors. Better that they don't find our posts than become misinformed.

Rather than 'Superhub', the logical and more truthful tag of 'Subhub' (or 'Sub' for short) would both sound nicer (some lovely alliteration there that I think we can all enjoy) and be a more logically accurate equivalent to the misleading 'Superhub' name that isn't really right to use. It is also not attempting to insult in any way, which 'Superfail' and the like do, it just adds honesty and accuracy to VM's own chosen naming convention. Not something VM would disagree with as a goal I'm sure. The Subhub does the job, just barely, but it is the basic 'freebe' option as VM must agree and users who need better will upgrade to something else.

It's fair enough really, so long as we are all honest and don't lead people to think the Sub is somehow better or even equivalent to other 120meg speced kit when we all know full well that it isn't. You get what you pay for, and there is no shame in admitting that.

19-09-2012, 20:27	#28
AndyCalling cf.addict Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Southampton (Switch PT2) Services: Fixed phone service (inclusive weekend calls) & internet service (200/12meg) Posts: 493	Re: Another Superhub release soon? I'm currently alright with my Shub, but I have no illusions. It is very clear that the Shub is superior to very few, if any, similar boxes that are currently on sale with the spec to handle 120meg broadband. This being obviously the case (even for the most accepting Shub owners like me), it is rather misleading for us to tell people searching for help that the Shub is 'super' in any way. Not a nice thing to do to new forum visitors. Better that they don't find our posts than become misinformed. Rather than 'Superhub', the logical and more truthful tag of 'Subhub' (or 'Sub' for short) would both sound nicer (some lovely alliteration there that I think we can all enjoy) and be a more logically accurate equivalent to the misleading 'Superhub' name that isn't really right to use. It is also not attempting to insult in any way, which 'Superfail' and the like do, it just adds honesty and accuracy to VM's own chosen naming convention. Not something VM would disagree with as a goal I'm sure. The Subhub does the job, just barely, but it is the basic 'freebe' option as VM must agree and users who need better will upgrade to something else. It's fair enough really, so long as we are all honest and don't lead people to think the Sub is somehow better or even equivalent to other 120meg speced kit when we all know full well that it isn't. You get what you pay for, and there is no shame in admitting that.