New Installation

[amsmarle]

Hello,
We have signed up for the VM, (TV, Phone & B-Band), to be installed on the 05/12/07, we have been reading your forum and from the great amount of advice and information, we have established that our existing Belkin 'G' adsl router and usb adapter are not suitable!?, it seems we would need a dsl router, I have some questions if someone could assist with the answers it would be greatly appreciated.

1) Our existing router will definitely not work with cable is that correct?
2) If this is the case we are looking at the following routers

BELKIN B5DUK045 G+ MIMO DSL Router & USB Adapter Bundle
(Just says speed is better than ‘G’)

or

NETGEAR WGTB111T-100UKS Wireless DSL Routers
(Data Transfer Speed - Up to 108Mbps*)

3) Which is the best product?
4) Regarding our existing usb adapters do they work on either adsl and also DSL?, Belkin have told me they are able to work with both systems (ADSL & DSL), but it was difficult to undestand the adviser (Indian call centre).

5) Final question!, re the speeds, we are due to be given a 2Mbps speed B-band, how does the 54 G and the 108Mbps speed equate, as surely if we can only get supplied with 2 Mbps speed in our cable supply we would never attain the 108 or 54 'G' that the routers capacity aims for.

Sorry for the protracted question list, but these are the things we do not understand, and would be grateful for answers to them

Regards

Alan

[Aragorn]

Alan,

to CF.

1. Correct - ADSL and Cable broadband are different technologies.
4. The existing USB wireless adapters will work fine with a new cable router. It's only the connection between the router and Virgin that is different.
5. Correct again - the main reason for offering high speeds in a home environment is for transfers within the home network, eg sharing large media files with other PC's in the home, streaming media to an XBox, backing up across the network. If you do none of the above access to the interenet will be limited to 2Mbps (shared among all the users).
3. If you have all Belkin adapters currently, I would stick with a standard Belkin G router. Typically, anything faster than standard 802.11G (54G) only works when all adapters and the router are from the same stable. eg A belkin 54G+ router and Linksys 54GS card will only talk at standard 54G speeds. Can't comment on the specified routers as I have a Linksys WRT54G myself.

HTH.

---------- Post added at 13:43 ---------- Previous post was at 13:38 ----------

Something like this would do fine, although again I have not tried it myself.

[amsmarle]

Hi,
Thank you for such a swift response, and kindly answering my questions

1) We don't have our PCs connected (networked) we just share the internet connection, i.e. one pc connected from the router to the pc via LAN and to the other pc via a usb adapter.

2) So the existing routers ability to operate at 125Mbps is only realised when you have two PCs connected as a network, and this 125 Mbps is only what you get in the home between the two networked PCs, anything relating to the internet is governed by the ISP supply speed
i.e. UP-TO 2 Mbps speed.

4) In our PC setup/scenario, it would seem that we have never experienced the 125Mbps speed that the PC World experts explained we would

3) With your helpful advice and easy to understand explanation I can see we should only be looking at getting a 54 G Mbps speed DSL router and utilise our existing usb adapter's.

I think with your information digested now, we will see a possible saving of perhaps between £15 & £20 in our purchase

Thanks once again for your very helpful post

Regards

Alan