Help with Virgin Media and wireless.

[chrismox]

I have recently moved into a house with a Virgin Media (NTL) cable box. The box has USB and ethernet sockets and is currently connected to an old PC via the USB connection.

I tried plugging my laptop into the ethernet port but it wouldn't connect. I have since been told that you cannot have both the USB and ethernet connections in use at the same time. True...? (haven't had a chance to test it).

Assuming I can get the ethernet port working in the cable box, what is the simplest way of making the thing wireless? I'm assuming a simple wireless router, I presume my DG834G is useless as this is a modem router...?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Werewolf]

Yup, you can only use USB or ethernet with virgin cable modems (and usb is being phased out as it won't cope with higher speeds and is a PITA).

You need a normal cable/dsl router without a built in modem (as opposed to one with a dsl modem built in), so just get something like the linksys wrt54gs or 54gl, reboot the modem with nothing attatched, connect the router via ethernet and you're pretty much away.

 

[chrismox]

Lovely, ta.