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Originally Posted by mike86
Hi,
I'm thinking about getting Broadband XL (20Mb) in August/September. I have a few questions that I was hoping somebody could answer 
My ADSL connection will be cancelled in June. I can't afford to pay nearly £40 for two months for broadband for myself. I was thinking I should get 2Mb for July and August, and then in September when my housemates move in, we want 20Mb. Do Virgin allow you to upgrade like that? Would the modem I received with the 2Mb package be capable of handling 20Mb speeds? |
Yep, they'll let you upgrade. Dunno what modem you'll get, so can't say. Maybe a VM bod can answer that one.
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Originally Posted by mike86
We will also need a wireless router. I would like to get a Linksys WRT54G* router. After looking on eBuyer and the specs on Wikipedia, I feel that WRT54GL is the best one I could buy new. Would I be better off getting one of the older models with 32Mb of RAM from eBay? |
I've got a recent WRT54GL from overclockers. I'm guessing you're choosing this model so you can run a 3rd party firmware..? If so, the newer ones will allow you to run it fine - I'm using dd-wrt, for what it's worth, and it works flawlessly.
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Originally Posted by mike86
Is this router capable of pushing out 20Mbps? My cheap D-Link can almost do 20Mbps when transferring files between machines, so I imagine it can. Are there any third party firmwares that allow you to monitor bandwidth usage between WAN and WLAN machines? That would be useful considering the new usage caps.
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The router will handle it fine - make sure the modem that you get from NTL can handle 20Mbit, but the router will handle it easily. There is an add-on for dd-wrt that you can use - have a look here:
http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/BWlog