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Originally Posted by Jong1
But my point was, while this manufacturer may know their stuff hardware wise they expect their customer to know theirs when it comes to the firmware. In that, I would would trust Netgear over Liberty any day. Liberty "cutting out the middle man" is most likely a cost saving exercise and it really would not surprise me if they have underestimated the skills they need in house to replicate their expertise. Hopefully I'm wrong.
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Cut out what middleman? Liberty have sourced from a variety of vendors including Compal and Arris in the past. They aren't cutting out anything, they are paying Compal / Arris to provide a CPE to them, they aren't writing the firmware and creating the hardware themselves.
Compal kit is used by Comhem to deliver a 500Mb service. It's been used across the world for a while. It even manages to handle guest WiFi without breaking the ability of some home devices to get IP addresses and/or producing massively unstable latency, which is more than can be said for the CPE Netgear supply VM.