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    Virgin Media and Netgear WPN824

    A mate is finally getting broadband and Virgin are sending him some stuff to connect up himself on Wednesday.

    He wants though a wireless connection for his new laptpo. I have an old Netgear WPN824 sitting around. Will this:

    1 Work as a cable modem?

    2 If not does the Virgin Media modem have a network out socket that can be plugged in to the Netgear?

    Apologies if this has already been posted I just need a quick definitive answer, and will search in the interim.

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    Re: Virgin Media and Netgear WPN824

    First one is a No, Second one for me is a yes, at least the Virgin media modem has usb and ethernet out.

    IF your mate doesn't know what he's doing with setup he might want some help though. First time setup isn't straight forward if you are a non techy.

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    Re: Virgin Media and Netgear WPN824

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    Re: Virgin Media and Netgear WPN824

    1, depends on if he's getting cable or adsl as virgin do both.

    2, the slightly older cable modems (ambit250, which were usually blue) have a coax i/p and 1x ethernet and 1x usb, i belive the the new spankers branded virgin one's (ambit255 which are black) only have 1 ethernet o/p. the usb drivers for the older 250 version were crap anyway so ethernet is your way forward.

    and that router should be fine.

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    Re: Virgin Media and Netgear WPN824

    Thanks to all.

    It's cable he is getting.

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    Re: Virgin Media and Netgear WPN824

    Just an update. It does need the modem, and we had to play around with mac addresses for the router and pc etc to get it to work.

    All in all a bit of a pain, but mainly due to Virgin's useless customer service.

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