I Am A Moron

Darkwave · 28 Mar 2007 at 15:09

Hey guys,

Some of you know I have been having horrible speed problems with my Virgin Media 10Mbit connection, turns out it was my awful Belkin router all along as I'd never even thought of connecting direct to the modem (which should've been the first thing to do really.)

So, there you have it. I am a moron, and I have a new Linksys WRT54GL on the way.

Sincerely yours,
A moron.

Immortal · 28 Mar 2007 at 15:10

mr.sly · 28 Mar 2007 at 15:12

Lets hope it can handle 20MB. lol.

Darkwave · 28 Mar 2007 at 15:12

Slyvester said:
Lets hope it can handle 20MB. lol.

Don't say that, you told me to buy this router.

P.S. This thread is a public apology to Virgin Media.

<3

1337z0r · 28 Mar 2007 at 15:46

Your more of a moron m8

, Virgin give away a free good netgear router which gives me full 10mb and can definatley handle 20mb

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Darkwave · 28 Mar 2007 at 15:52

1337z0r said:
Your more of a moron m8 , Virgin give away a free good netgear router which gives me full 10mb and can definatley handle 20mb .

Guy on the phone never mentioned that.

I don't mind buying a good router though as I'll be keeping it for the future.

1337z0r · 28 Mar 2007 at 16:24

My friend bought one aswell even though I said they give you one for free :confused:

Darkwave · 28 Mar 2007 at 16:27

1337z0r said:
My friend bought one aswell even though I said they give you one for free

Sounds like your friend and I are morons.

1337z0r · 28 Mar 2007 at 16:31

Guess so

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GreenMint · 28 Mar 2007 at 20:09

Ulfhedjinn said:
Hey guys,

Some of you know I have been having horrible speed problems with my Virgin Media 10Mbit connection, turns out it was my awful Belkin router all along as I'd never even thought of connecting direct to the modem (which should've been the first thing to do really.)

So, there you have it. I am a moron, and I have a new Linksys WRT54GL on the way.

Sincerely yours,
A moron.

Hope it works out, i'm using a WRT54G and still getting awful speeds, well, on websites, newsgroups i'm getting 1.5mb/sec+, still using the old NTL proxy addresses and still having no damn luck

Robert · 28 Mar 2007 at 20:19

What speeds do you get now?

Darkwave · 28 Mar 2007 at 20:24

Robert said:
What speeds do you get now?

I'm back on the crappy router for the moment because I share this internet connection with my brother, but I was getting about 1,200kB/s when my PC was connected directly to the modem so that's about right.

Hoping the new router tomorrow will offer an improvement, otherwise I'm £40 down for no reason.

Robert · 28 Mar 2007 at 20:50

It probably will tbh. Linksys are a fairly good brand (cisco basically).

Darkwave · 29 Mar 2007 at 13:22

Much better.

Nick1881 · 29 Mar 2007 at 14:53

wow, your on your way to 20mb there. I want mine to be higher.

VM 10mb rocks at the mo.

matja · 29 Mar 2007 at 15:02

I'm ready for 20mbit, my Linux-based router can handle routing/firewalling 850Mbit/s (tested)

LoadsaMoney · 29 Mar 2007 at 15:09

NetGear's are free because they *****.

Noxis · 29 Mar 2007 at 16:52

Yes, yes we know.

dayloon · 29 Mar 2007 at 16:59

1337z0r said:
Your more of a moron m8 , Virgin give away a free good netgear router which gives me full 10mb and can definatley handle 20mb .

Do they ? How do you get that ?

/edit - just googled it. Apparently it's only customers of the former TW

Darkwave · 29 Mar 2007 at 17:10

Nice.