Phemo said:Well, Virgin cable is totally seperate from your phone line, so you could even have both if you wanted. You're free to cancel your ADSL and move back to it at any time should you wish.[/QUOTE}
Sorry, I meant that if I cancel my ADSL subsciption, would I have to get a MAC code from Plusnet if I came back to ADSL, or would I have to have the line activated again?
Phemo said:You're quite right about the router situation. You'll have to get a new cable router which simply has an ethernet port for it's WAN interface instead of an RJ11 ADSL port. You just connect the cable modem up to the cable router and then do your normal router configuration for wireless etc. People seem to like the Linksys WRT54GL because of its ability to flash with a custom firmware providing some very nice features at a great price.
Can I ask what those features are, or do they relate to things that are against the forum rules?
I always shied away from Linksys as it looks a bit Fisher Price to me... Always had Netgear kit, but I keep hearing of more and more people complaining of issues with it...
Is 802.11n worth bothering with?
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The custom firmwares are legitimate 
There's tons of features that they offer, you can check some examples out here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F
To be honest most people probably aren't going to have a use for any of them, but you never know. You get more flexible quality of service options, the ability to up the power on your wireless, VLANs and so on. There are also other devices which can run DD-WRT - it's not just limited to certain Linksys routers.
As for 802.11n - depends what you do with your wireless really. If you only use it for Internet access then there's probably not much point. However if you do a lot of transferring between other PCs/whatever on the network then it may be worth investing in.
There's tons of features that they offer, you can check some examples out here:http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/What_is_DD-WRT%3F
To be honest most people probably aren't going to have a use for any of them, but you never know. You get more flexible quality of service options, the ability to up the power on your wireless, VLANs and so on. There are also other devices which can run DD-WRT - it's not just limited to certain Linksys routers.
As for 802.11n - depends what you do with your wireless really. If you only use it for Internet access then there's probably not much point. However if you do a lot of transferring between other PCs/whatever on the network then it may be worth investing in.
Man of Honour
.. not many days left to roll it out to the Reading(Winnersh) area..
Commissario
iirc they rolled out some "May" areas on about the last day of May
Soldato
Wales
Cardiff area including: Barry, Newport, Cwmbran, Penarth, Ely To be confirmed
Still no upgrade
Cardiff area including: Barry, Newport, Cwmbran, Penarth, Ely To be confirmed
Still no upgrade
Associate
Site's updated - Bristol: August.
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/existingcustomers/faster/schedule.html
http://allyours.virginmedia.com/html/existingcustomers/faster/schedule.html
Soldato
Well it's nearly the end of June and no upgrade for me yet in Cambridge
Man of Honour
Same for Basingstoke (comes under Reading>Winnersh)..HEADRAT said:
/drums fingers impatiently on desk...
Soldato
Not me 
Soldato
Bighton is now 20mbit (while mine is)
and I am getting a fantastic 2mbit on sppedtest (i know not a great test) and with two threads on the BY ftp server I get about 700-800K
Nice I was getting 1.2mb on 10mbit
Is an awful time of day I supose but hardly the point.
I am getting a new modem soon (told a porky about what modem I have) as I keep having freezes on mine.
I also have a really low download power level -7.8 which is within the +5 -15 range for 64QAM
hmf
and I am getting a fantastic 2mbit on sppedtest (i know not a great test) and with two threads on the BY ftp server I get about 700-800K
Nice I was getting 1.2mb on 10mbit
Is an awful time of day I supose but hardly the point.
I am getting a new modem soon (told a porky about what modem I have) as I keep having freezes on mine.
I also have a really low download power level -7.8 which is within the +5 -15 range for 64QAM
hmf
Basingstoke would now appear to be done too. My modem was reporting 10mbit about 10 minutes ago but after a manual reboot, it got the 20mbit config file.
I do all of my downloading overnight but I thought I'd see what speeds I get now and I was quite surprised to see 2300KB/sec - not bad for peak hours.
I do all of my downloading overnight but I thought I'd see what speeds I get now and I was quite surprised to see 2300KB/sec - not bad for peak hours.
Soldato
Yeah did a manual reset and still no upgrade in the Newcastle area. Wonder if it's going to be done at 01:00 as there is maintainence scheduled for then.