Thread: Broadband Routers

I have 22mb Virgin Media broadband and I am delighted with it. But, I always thought I was not getting the superfast functionality that Virgin claimed and couldn't figure out why, until now.

On Friday last I lost internet access and rang Virgin. A very helpful young man (english too!!) took me through some steps, he 'spoke' to my modem and told me it was the router, through which I can connect to my daughter laptop upstairs and my own when required. So I asked about the Virgin Router. £40 he said, delivered by courier. PHEW!! Er, OK I said send it (the cost goes on my bill). Tuesday and it arrived.

I followed the easy to read instructions and removed my Trust 350BR router and installed the new Netgear wireless/cable router and then installed the cd software.

A very easy to follow on screen wizard later and I am up and running - POW! Everything loads instantanously!!! So I ran around the net for a while, everything was VERY much faster than before.

So, I loaded my laptop up and tested it after installing Virgin Wireless Manager off the CD and that too is appreciably faster!!

I never realised that the router could have slowed me down so much!!!! Even my laptop wirelss connection is zooming!!