Superhub : SuperHub becomes standard kit

[BenMcr]

Just a heads up to everyone

From this Wednesday 21st the SuperHub becomes the standard kit for all customers taking broadband and upgrading.

The VMDG280 (D2 Hub) will still be used for fault swaps where available, however eventually the SuperHub will be supplied for fault swaps too

[thenry]

good

[jb66]

Should have been one kit from day 1!

[thenry]

yup, better late than never I guess

[djfunkdup]

Originally Posted by jb66

Should have been one kit from day 1!

What a silly thing to say...are you on the festive wine early ?

kit needs upgraded for lots of different reasons,the network it's connected to evolves and in turn so does the kit connected to it..
if we followed your way of thinking then cars would still have stone wheels

[jb66]

I think the fact the hub was only out for 1 year shows how 'future proof' it was. The price between the hub s can't be that much and the cost of refurbishing old hubs when they upgrade to xl costs too

[BenMcr]

I have a feeling the D2 was always planned to be a interim solution. It's why it was basically the stock Netgear design and interface compared with the custom design of the SuperHub

[greyhairbadger]

This isn't a bad thing at all.

I won't be sorry to see the back of the VMDG280, if only because it is a lot easier to advise relegating the Superhub into bridge mode, when compared to talking people through configuring a third party router as a wireless access point and placing it within the VMDG280 subnet.

Speaking of which, does anybody know how this affects development and deployment of firmware for the VMDG280? I know a few people are desperately awaiting modem mode for their Hubs.

Phil.

[thenry]

an incentive to upgrade to a SH?

[Skie]

So its no longer "Super" (was it ever? :p)

[General Maximus]

Originally Posted by Skie

So its no longer "Super" (was it ever? :p)

yeah, it defo needs downgrading to "hub" status and then they can make something which is actually worthy of the name

Does this mean the 20MB>30MB upgrade charge of £30 is now scrapped?

[jb66]

Will virgin now bother with bridge mode on it?

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Originally Posted by Jameseh

Does this mean the 20MB>30MB upgrade charge of £30 is now scrapped?

If you already have a superhub, then yes, if no then you'll still need one

[Chrysalis]

make sense, this raises a couple of questions tho.

will docsis1 configs be made for the superhub if bottom tier customers are getting it, if not will all new customers on the superhub on the bottom tier be put on docsis3.

[BenMcr]

Considering that customers on BB S/M and L have always been able to get the SuperHub for a fee then I would assume approriate configuration settings are already available for each of them

Anyway isn't D3 just basically D2 with channel bonding (which wouldn't be required for the bottom tiers)?