Using Sky Netgear on Virgin cable

modo77 · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:35

Hi Folks,

Anyone know if its possible to use an old Sky netgear router with a virgin cable modem for wireless?

A mate is on Virgin and has just got a laptop and needs wireless access, I've got an old Sky adsl wireless router and wondered if it would be possible to connect that to the cable modem. The sky router would then have a desktop connected to a LAN port and wireless for the laptop.

Not sure of the model of the netgear router, can't see anything in the config pages. But its the black sky one if that helps

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:39

If its the black Sky one not a chance. If it was a white one you could have turned it into an AP and used it as a gateway.

modo77 · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:44

Bah

not even with flashing it with the netgear firmware?
When I figure out which model it is

Deleted member 77746 · 2 Mar 2011 at 17:59

modo77 said:
Bah not even with flashing it with the netgear firmware?
When I figure out which model it is

Is it a netgear white version, which will work. Sky did a Sagem black version, which won't work.

modo77 · 2 Mar 2011 at 18:02

Its a dark gray/ black netgear

Edit: found the box, model is DG934G

NeverWinter · 2 Mar 2011 at 18:34

You could only use it as an access point AFAIK, becasue of cable and ADSL not having the same connections.