Cable router question

Dreamcaster · 15 May 2007 at 10:39

I will be moving house sone and plan to have my broadband through virgin media which is cable. I have always had adsl so am new to this. My question is would this work ok -

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=NW-090-NG&groupid=46&catid=116&subcat=

Or would i need anything else to go with it? We are having a package deal so i believe the modem is build in the set top box?

PhillyDee · 15 May 2007 at 10:57

Any cable router should do. That one looks waaay over the top. I use a Linksys WRT54G. Should work fine though.

doggo · 15 May 2007 at 12:56

that one should be fine Deramcaster.

I've allways used Linksys routers for my NTL/Virgin cable and had no problems with them, they would get my vote every time personaly.

iMacMart · 15 May 2007 at 21:12

I have a WRT54GL with Tomato 1.06 firmware on!

Great coverage all over my house and garden

Only ever used Linksys while I been on NTL cable and thats been for the last 6 years and I haven't got a bad thing to say about them tbh

Avalon · 15 May 2007 at 22:26

WRT54GL & a 3rd party firmware such as DDWRT if you want/need it. The friendly side of a ton it's hard to beat without a dedicated linux router distro. You do not want a Set Top Box (STB or 'V Box') modem (they tend not to push them in sales much unless you ask for it to be activated instead of a standard modem). Basically if it's built into your STB and it goes belly up you loose two devices as welll as the speed the inbuilt modems can handle being significantly lower than the externals (external is good to circa 38mbit)