NowTV Broadband - Does their Hub 2.0 have a "Modem" mode?

Gimpymoo · 4 Feb 2020 at 13:20

I think for the most part, it is a SkyQ hub but not 100% sure if they have locked down any of it.

Thanks.

Trig · 4 Feb 2020 at 13:27

Not on the firmware mine has on it..

Gimpymoo · 4 Feb 2020 at 13:47

Trig said:
Not on the firmware mine has on it..

Thanks for the reply.

ISP's are for the most part, ********.

Trig · 4 Feb 2020 at 15:11

NowTV are terrible, ok for the normal home user that doesnt want to faff with the router, but if you want to do much beyond a bit of port forwarding or swapping out to your own router, NowTV are a no go..

james.miller · 4 Feb 2020 at 15:18

Same can be said for just about every ISP.

Avalon · 4 Feb 2020 at 16:27

Trig said:
NowTV are terrible, ok for the normal home user that doesnt want to faff with the router, but if you want to do much beyond a bit of port forwarding or swapping out to your own router, NowTV are a no go..

Surely it’s the big standard Sky Hub rebranded as it’s the same company? If so it’s perfectly adequate for most users, any self respecting person who doesn’t fall into the average category would obviously have his/her own router anyway.

Gimpymoo · 4 Feb 2020 at 19:13

Avalon said:
If so it’s perfectly adequate for most users

I would say the lack of Modem/Bridge mode makes it **** for a LOT of users.

Caged · 4 Feb 2020 at 19:34

I'd be amazed if more than a couple of percent of a big (BT, Sky, TalkTalk) ISPs customer base run a third party router or have any need to.

james.miller · 4 Feb 2020 at 19:44

Gimpymoo said:
I would say the lack of Modem/Bridge mode makes it **** for a LOT of users.

Lack of Modem mode doesnt hold me back. Would be nice to have but it doesnt cause me issues.

Avalon · 4 Feb 2020 at 20:09

Gimpymoo said:
I would say the lack of Modem/Bridge mode makes it **** for a LOT of users.

The overwhelming majority of users have no need for anything more capable in terms of routing, you can do port forwarding and DMZ, OK VLAN/LAG/VPN/IDS/load balanced failover and multi-engine content filtering in real time isn't happening, but if you want to run that kind of environment, you are surely aware that it's not a consumer grade router that you need and shouldn't be naive enough to expect any consumer level ISP to supply (and assume you will pay for) such hardware. A few years back Sky published details on 3rd party hardware usage, it wasn't huge.

Trig · 4 Feb 2020 at 22:38

Avalon said:
Surely it’s the big standard Sky Hub rebranded as it’s the same company? If so it’s perfectly adequate for most users, any self respecting person who doesn’t fall into the average category would obviously have his/her own router anyway.

There are no user details so you can’t swap it for your own.

Avalon · 5 Feb 2020 at 01:24

Trig said:
There are no user details so you can’t swap it for your own.

Unless something has drastically changed, that's simply not true. People have been replacing Sky Hub's with 3rd party routers for almost as long as Sky Hub's have existed, this is a rebranded Sky Hub, so what's the problem? Heck Sky even officially supported it at one point and then made changes that made it an even more trivial/easy process.