What Dongle

Originally Posted by Rob

Surely any wireless adaptor that is of the correct speed type i.e. "g" or above would work

Being friendly to the User,All of Virginmedia's Netgear kit has Virgin Specific firmware installed in them and if you do not use their Dongle or PCMIA Card if you required to go Wireless then you are unsupported by Virgin ( Its fine if your Laptop or PC is Wireless enabled we can support you )

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All i want is a dongle that i can use with my laptop, and i wont be always using my home wireless router ill be using others when i go to their house so wouldnt it be good to buy a dongle that works on other wireless routers? or perhaps a wireless card?

Btw is there anything in maplin that would work? as i have a maplin 5mins from my house

Edit: If not could some one post a link to this dongle on Vm website...

[handyman]

What make and model is your laptop?

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Ei system 3088

[dilli-theclaw]

The E system laptop I have does now power on the built in wireless by default.

Try pressing

Fn + F10 when you are in windows to see if it turns the wireless on.

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Mind you looking on the manufacturor site it may well not have a wireless cafd installed

Still, worth a try I guess.

[Cobbydaler]

No wireless installed according to this...

[dragon]

Originally Posted by the end

All i want is a dongle that i can use with my laptop, and i wont be always using my home wireless router ill be using others when i go to their house so wouldnt it be good to buy a dongle that works on other wireless routers? or perhaps a wireless card?

Btw is there anything in maplin that would work? as i have a maplin 5mins from my house

Edit: If not could some one post a link to this dongle on Vm website...

yes you either want an 802.11G Pcmcia card (if your laptop has a slot)

Or an 802.11G wireless adaptor.

As others have said unless you really want to use the virgin supplied software (which you don't need) any one should work.

I think a few people said Maplins "White box" adaptors seem to work ok, and are around £15

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Hey i will try wireless keys and see what happens when i got my laptop back Lol, and i got hold of a dongle from maplin 19.99 and as far as i know its working fine it detects around 4 diffrent connections around my area even my own but has trouble connecting to my. Keeps saying you are trying to set up wireless with a router which is not with Vm but it is

Im new to this stuff so im still learning.

Originally Posted by the end

Hey i will try wireless keys and see what happens when i got my laptop back Lol, and i got hold of a dongle from maplin 19.99 and as far as i know its working fine it detects around 4 diffrent connections around my area even my own but has trouble connecting to my. Keeps saying you are trying to set up wireless with a router which is not with Vm but it is

Im new to this stuff so im still learning.

I did warn you about Virgin firmware in post 16 above and the Virgin dongle is also £20 and works correctly with the router.

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The dongle works fine i found the problem out which was i was entering the wrong key name lol. and yes im on my laptop now, heres the dongle i got from maplin: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...a=usb&doy=28m6.

great connection sitting next to the router says 100%, go upstairs says 80%, go into the garden just around 50%.

Originally Posted by the end

The dongle works fine i found the problem out which was i was entering the wrong key name lol. and yes im on my laptop now, heres the dongle i got from maplin: http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?...a=usb&doy=28m6.

great connection sitting next to the router says 100%, go upstairs says 80%, go into the garden just around 50%.

I am actually glad it works because you would not have been able to ring up for support using a 3rd party dongle.

This is where the Virgin router falls down, people are not being told that they may need another Virgin supplied device to get online, and when they call up after buying a 3rd party device they are then told we cannot support your connection.

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Originally Posted by whydoIneedatech

I am actually glad it works because you would not have been able to ring up for support using a 3rd party dongle.

This is where the Virgin router falls down, people are not being told that they may need another Virgin supplied device to get online, and when they call up after buying a 3rd party device they are then told we cannot support your connection.

theres always a catch with free routers lol but thanks tho

Originally Posted by the end

theres always a catch with free routers lol but thanks tho

Guess who has to tell the customer that your 3rd party device is unsupported, we do the guys and girls on the Technical Support Line.