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Originally Posted by Skie

Had 50meg installed today (going up from 20), told the installer I already had a router that I wanted to keep (running tomato) and he immediately suspected there would be issues.

Once the modem was on and connected it did have a bit of a fit but he was pretty quick to blame the setup, had a root around his van and pulled out a VMNG300v2 CM and used that instead which worked a treat. So the SuperHub is not mandatory just yet, but you probably need to be lucky with what's in the van. He shot off pretty quickly, so I didn't have a chance to do a speedtest. Uh oh!



Well that aint good.

I know what VM will say if I ring them, so I hook up a laptop to the modem directly....


Blazing


So it turns out that my tomato toting WRT54g can't handle above 26Meg on the lan, looks like I need a new router anyway. Called Virgin up to ask if I could be sent the hub (rather than fork out more for a new one) and they were only too happy to send it for free and even knocked the installation charge off the bill for the inconvenience. Result I think, though would have been happier if my current router had worked, not sure I'll like being back on a bare-bones router.

Check your next bill if you expect it for free!