They may have used with Virgin, but possibly had the ADSL version.
From the description of ports it isn't going to work with Cable. Stick it on ebay
It's getting quite hard to buy a wired only router. Wireless routers, generally have the 4 wired local network ports, in addition to the wireless function, and you can normally disable the wireless from the router's setup pages (controlled from a log in on your internet explorer).
As a general rule, opt for a well known brand in the UK, such as Linksys or Netgear. Personally I've been happy with the Linksys WRT54GS (WRT54GL is an alternative), although this is now getting harder to find as they've new and improved things.