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Originally Posted by Kushan
No, current devices can only bond 8 downstream channels. That cannot be fixed in software. Future hubs will have significantly more bonded channels though.
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I see that I am not the only one flip flopping between and combining the WiFi and speed upgrade stories.
Indeed the success of the VM residential hotspots, even with support from the ISP-side network, may well depend upon the speed upgrade. Outside a typical residence it is likely that a hotspot user may get less than 10% of available download speed. ( I get 10Mb download in the middle of the road outside my house logged onto either my Asus or FON router. (My connection is 152Mb) With a 300Mb connection the connection looks usable. Frankly with connections of 80Mb or less, as with BT, hotspots are virtually useless. With my roaming rights, through having a FON hotspot router, I can access BT Fon, but very rarely find anything good enough to actually download files. Browsing and streaming is sometimes possible.