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Originally Posted by Avulon
Personally I think all this type of hardware has an overly high retail price.
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The price is only partly determined by the cost of the hardware. The real cost is in the firmware development and the IPR embedded therein, which is measured in 10's of thousands of mandays.
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Originally Posted by Avulon
If you believe that the price has no bearing on that star rating then (I believe that) you are mistaken: especially if that leads you to think that the BT device costing half the price is actually funtionally and perfomancewise better than the more expensive device with half a star less.
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When a router gets 5* for performance
and value for money in a review (and many reviews), I think it gives a good indication of the router's performance.
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Originally Posted by Avulon
At the end of the day if you are happy to pay BT for their equipment and it satisfies your requirements then fair enough. If you'd like to get the same or better for less cost and you want something more than a basic Router with WiFi and a few ethernet ports then it can be had for less money than BT would charge. The choice is with the consumer.
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But nothing that performs as well as this router.
My question would be, why knock a product that wins accolades for performance and VFM?
If it doesn't offer a featue that you need, fair enough, but it is an outstanding router for the intended market nevertheless.