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Originally Posted by zekeisaszekedoes
Not really. One of the ones I have is from VM and apart from VM logo branding on the web GUI setup page and slightly different default user/pass they're practically identical IIRC.
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Again you have shown how little that most people know about the equipment supplied by Virginmedia.
The Netgear WGR614v6 and v9 supplied by Virginmedia have embedded firmware and require users to use a the default login username of virgin and the passphrase preinstall.
Also this router does something that no standard WGR614 router does, if you have pinhole reset and connect it to a computer and attempt to go online you are presented with a red Virginmedia router setup screen which asks you to input the SSID you want to use and the passphrase with a save button at the bottom of the page.
You are also presented with the above screen if you pinhole reset the router and look for a network called Virginbroadband where you use the username of virgin and the password preinstall and when you go online you get the screen mentioned above.
Now if you use the setup cd this installs more Virginmedia software on your machine which includes our own Virginmedia wireless manager which needs to be removed before replacing the Virginmedia WGR614 a different router as it can cause issues.
The cd software though if installed on your machine does have uses such as if you pinhole reset the router and cannot find the cd you just exit the wireless manager and go to all programs and look for Virgin broadband wireless manager Easy Setup which is the cd preinstalled on your machine and run through setup.
Now does anyone still think the is no difference between a standard WGR614 and the one supplied by Virginmedia, I thought not.
I personally will always setup our WGR614 with a customer without using the cd, you can use either method laid out above or set it up using the standard ip address of 192.168.0.1 but it still requires the Virginmedia username and password above which will get you to the standard Netgear setup pages.