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I have a fibre Optic cable to the house that Virgin is charging me just shy of 30 quid a month for. No phone and the hub just about fits in the corner they were so generous with the cable I can not even move it to see the label on the back. That's why I don't know if it is wireless enabled or just the basic hardware. So I can't use the computer anywhere but where it is.

I gather the line was put down by Cable and Wireless before corrupt riggers sent it to the wall. I am pretty p**d off with Virgin, I just don't like the idea that all I am getting from them is a monthly receipt. I know I am subsidising any number of new customers but I don't want to do that any more. I don't want a company like Talk Talk and am not sure I wish to pay a great deal more for what is not going to be much greater use.

Any suggestions?
 
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I just checked out BY which looks like they are offering the same thing for a third of the price:
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/isp_list/ISP_Detail_Superfast_Broadband.php?BT-2
I doubt I will go over the allowance even though I watch you tube videos all day long rather than live the rest of my life as an human being.
Virgin says it is unlimited but I wouldn't know how I'd fit into their exceptions if I ever decided I could watch two or three videos at once.
Currently on: 27.9 Mbps 19.1 Mbps which isn't bad.

But why do I need a phone?
Admittedly getting aphone is still cheaper than Virgin's BB only. How bad a BT these days?
 
Slightly confused by some aspects of your post as I'm not really sure what the issue is or what exactly you want inside?

Virgin Media's SuperHub is also a wireless device and so you should have WiFi enabled on it.
 
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Post a photo or a link to a photo of the router you have in the corner and we can check hold old It is and if it does have Wi-Fi.

I am a great hater of BT but Infinity has been stunning for me. Reliable and fast. Shame about their phone support which is still dire.

Tom - www.mouselike.org
 
I am a great hater of BT but Infinity has been stunning for me. Reliable and fast. Shame about their phone support which is still dire.

Tom - www.mouselike.org

As someone who is about to join them next week I am glad to see this comment. I hope it's like when I was with Zen. Connection so good I didn't need to call TS

@WeatherLawyer. All of virgin's router's have wifi enabled, There are 2 lights on the front for 2G or 5G, are they lit? You can access the router by going to 192.168.0.1 from your browser. Just shy of £30 a month is probably 50mbps service at £28.50? (now £30.50) so you will have a superhub or a superhub 2 because Virgin have swapped out most of the old 300 and other old modems.

Also to answer who owns your line - Virgin Media does. As it's owns the network that C&W,Blueyonder/Telewest has before it. I remember the days of Blueyonder. I felt like god on my 512K line as it used to leave 512K ADSL standing. And when VM works right it leaves most connections standing these days too (minus 1Gbps lines ofcourse)

You have a piece of coax going from the tap in the street to your house. That's how VM does it. It's not fibre optic as you would think it would be.

BT are worth a punt. I am giving them one anyway. 12 month contract so nothing really to lose.
 
It is a SuperHub. But I can't get WiFi on it or if I can iI don't know how.

I thought it was odd as I only got it a couple of years back and expected to be able to use it.
I'm going to have to take a spanner to it so I can read the damn thing.

I will try the 192.168.0.1 trick thanks all.
My first experience with Linux was with BT I was amazed to find myself online before I'd even looked for a driver. Not my experience with AOL by a large margin. I'd never use Windows to get online these days.
 
Well the superhub has 2 lights on the front (mine says 2.4GHZ and 5.0GHZ) - if these are lit then you will have wifi. On the bottom of the hub it should tell you the SSID the hub is transmitting and then you just find it and connect with the password. OS is not relevant
 
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Well the superhub has 2 lights on the front (mine says 2.4GHZ and 5.0GHZ) - if these are lit then you will have wifi. On the bottom of the hub it should tell you the SSID the hub is transmitting and then you just find it and connect with the password. OS is not relevant

SO I can get my ZX81 to connect?? :D
 
If the routers WiFi has stopped working then Virgin Media should replace it as that would be a major fault and the hardware is on lease. But yes, do try to login to the router first via your web browser and check to see what the wireless settings are set to do.
 
It might be set to "Hide", or even be switched off; I know on some of my routers you have had to connect via cable first, before the Wifi was allowed to connect.
 
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