Virgins new 50mb modem?

[popper]

Originally Posted by Gary L

Doesn't the nice, smooth, shiny, slippery, sexy modem, justify why you should upgrade?
It's easy to clean you know and is stain resistant

They will probably get Uma to advertise it right next to her cleavage. "you know you want it boys, it comes with a box of tissues"

The tissues are to keep it looking shiny.

NO its not, it keeps rocking about as you Mr sheen it

[Gary L]

Originally Posted by popper

NO its not, it keeps rocking about as you Mr sheen it

Too much information!

[Zhadnost]

Originally Posted by popper

that kind of implys they have thought about a rather strange, but non the less welcome 1port WAN and 2 port LAN router/switch that can be used by the end users, IF these 2 missing rj45 connectors are on the PCB AND actually soldered onboard and activated in firmware.....AND internal http server pages ?

Although there's no mention of it in the spec. To me, that doesn't look like 3 x RJ-45 ports. Maybe a pair of FXS ports and an ethernet port.

Here is a nice link taken from Digitalspy.

http://www.djchrisroberts.com/main.jpg

[Welshchris]

I think we are gonna have MAJOR problems with these modems if they have an inbuilt router. Their netgear routers that uses their own firmware they have done something to it which stops people using peer to peer as the router resets itself every few mins and connection drops but this also has an affect on Legal peer to peer like BBC Iplayer etc and it also drops out using FTP. This is a known problem and many people have reported it on the Virgin Newsgroup and if u google it, many more will come up.

[chickendippers]

I don't understand why it isn't a modem/router. I've helped plenty of technology novices set up their VM connection and the separate components really confuse people. I would have thought this a perfect opportunity to change things up and reduce their costs (surely a modem router is cheaper than two separate devices, one of which is sent by courier?)

Originally Posted by chickendippers

I don't understand why it isn't a modem/router. I've helped plenty of technology novices set up their VM connection and the separate components really confuse people. I would have thought this a perfect opportunity to change things up and reduce their costs (surely a modem router is cheaper than two separate devices, one of which is sent by courier?)

No it will be 2 separate devices as not everyone wants a router.

[Steve-o||[^]]

Originally Posted by popper

that may be so , but ill take function over form any day, after all do you really even look at the current modem (assuming its even in view) other than to do a quick check that the 4 lights are on and data is flowing ?.

What he said!


My 256 resides in the bottom of an ickle 'comm's rack' passing bits to, and receiving bits from, my firewall; disallowing me public R-O access via SNMP and warming up the cupboard. So as long as it keeps doing that I don't much care for how curvaceous, glossy or cool it looks while doing so.



And modems with build in routers, ewwwww. How hard can it be to plug in a dedicated routing device into a dedicated 'modeming' device?

[Noggo]

yep looks nice