I'd given up on using the WRT54G, but I tried LaineY's suggestion of turning the WRT54G on first & IT WORKED!
Thank you LaineY- you've made my month
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Originally Posted by Chris T
There is no legal way you can do this, so as you've said you don't want to defraud Virgin, you might as well forget it.
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I thought that might be the case.
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Originally Posted by Chris T
Aside from that, modems remain VM's property, so technically your friend shouldn't have given it to you, he should have arranged for VM to collect it when he had finished with it.
If you want to be absolutely whiter-than-white about this, you should give it back to him and recommend he contacts VM. Then, when they inevitably fail to give a damn, a month has passed and nobody has come to collect it, he can chuck it in the bin.  |
That's how come he's still got it- He cancelled the contract before he installed it & they never asked for it back. It's still in it's box with 3 coax cables, a long length of Cat5 & a plastic spanner.
The date on the box is December 2007.
I'm going to keep the cables & totally trash the modem- I don't want it to fall into the hands of some work-shy chav who'll use it illegally.
(have you seen the ads on Freecycle from someone asking for Telewest hardware with a variety of feeble excuses as to why she wants them?)
Thanks again, LaineY & everyone else who tried to help