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Originally Posted by qasdfdsaq
Perhaps, but there are other cable ISPs that allow customers to supply their own modem. It's good that VM have learnt and incorporated "modem mode" into the SH2 from the outset, but it's clear from the original SH1 development that that wasn't exactly a priority...
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I'm not entirely sure what
was a priority on the SH1. About the only aspect of it that actually works well is the Modem inside it. It looks awful, it has atrocious wireless, ****-poor routing abilities, stupid button placement, even stupider socket placement and the Firmware was terrible. If I had to guess, about the only priority it had was to get released as quickly as possible.
I don't know if anyone remembers, but the superhub wasn't actually the first hub Virgin released. There was a predecessor, a DOCSIS2/1 only device that had even worse performance than the SHUB. I always presumed they rushed the SHUB out because the first hub was so utterly terrible. As painful as it is to say, the superhub was actually an improvement on it.
Anyway I digress. You're right about the other cable ISPs and I believe in America, it's actually law there that the cable companies must work with 3rd party equipment - one of the reasons TiVo took off, because you could just plug it into your cable network of choice. It'd be awesome to have that flexibility here, there are some really fantastic cable box alternatives out there - and we all know what the modems are like.