Ambit 256

Originally Posted by Masque

Yes thats the one.



Virgin Media Hub modem router

The Virgin Media Hub is a superfast broadband modem and router rolled into one.

Hope my sister dosnt have any issues like I did with it.

Quick update.

My sisters hub came today (it is the one pictured), so I just got back from setting that up for her. Shes not teccy minded, so I think the all in one solution will mean I wont be going down as much resetting everything (fingers crossed)

I never thought I would see the day where a change of modem would mean the difference betwen 0.5meg (on her old Ambit 200) to 9.9meg with her new hub. Instant improvement so she is well made up. The agent I called couldnt of been more helpful and activated it in no time and generally I was pleased with my experiance with the hub this time. She does not have 2 xboxes, so that should be perfect for her. Looking at the lights as well, I would hazard a guess it downloaded a newer firmware on its initial activation.

One tiny hicup, her Kodak Hero 5.1 printer is not connecting wirelessly. I tried setting the DMZ to the computers IP, the printers IP. I think I can make the printer a static IP, but didnt really have the time to try some fixes. Any suggestions welcome and I'm also about to google it

[General Maximus]

you shouldn't be putting either of them in the dmz because that is all about port forwarding and the internet and the type of traffic you are talking about is strictly local.

I havent much experience setting up wireless printers however if it has got one of those little lcd displays you should be able to go into a basic menu and get it to print off a diagnositc sheet or something which will have the ip address of the printer on it. You should then reset the wireless config on the printer to default so it will broadcast an open network and you use your laptop/wireless device to detect the printers wireless network and connect to it. This will only establish local connectivity between the laptop and printer but from here you can open a web browser and pull up a configuration page by going to the printers ip address (e.g http://192.168.223.1) and you can see alsorts of info and configure stuff. There will be a setup wizard like in windows which will auto detect available wireless networks or there should be an advanced feature which allows you to input the ssid, select the standard of encryption and any passwords etc etc. You can then get the printer to connect to it (the hub) and you'll lose your connection and can reconnect to the hub as well and all should be good.