![]() Other features include Web Safe, F-Secure SAFE and the usual DHCP and firewall which can be tweaked. There’s support for 802.11ac Wi-Fi with up to three spatial streams on the 5GHz band. Currently, the phone connection on Virgin Media is physically separate from the broadband one – merging the two together makes sense and could lead to some serious cost savings and ease problem solving. ![]() The two telephone ports pave the way for a potential VoIP service. This means you won’t be able to connect a hard drive or a printer to it directly a rather major let-down compared to some of the competition on the market. The modem, which is built by Arris and is known as the TG2492LG-VM (there’s even a mention on the bottom plate), is packed with five antennas but doesn’t have any USB ports. There’s also a removable card slotted in the router’s base, along with yet another sticker underneath the device. Note that the router comes with stickers featuring your login details so that you can display these around the house just be careful that these aren’t visible through your windows. Virgin Media’s online do-it-yourself guides are as straightforward as can be, and if you run into any issues, an operator can run a diagnostic test remotely and decide whether to send an engineer onsite. Setting up the router is a doddle and doesn’t require any specific skill other than the ability to use the bundled proprietary spanner. In normal operation, one white soft light should remain on unlike the blinking blue lights on the previous one.Īround the back you get two inactive/disabled telephone ports, four Gigabit Ethernet ports, a reset button, the power switch, a port for the power cable and the coaxial cable connector. The front panel hosts the Wi-Fi light, the internet activity light, a phone light, a power LED and the WPS button. ![]() Congrats to the design team for coming up with something that looks less like a bland piece of tech and more like a piece of art. Available in black or white, the router looks a bit like a small speaker – thanks to its grilled sides – and blends seamlessly in with any modern décor.
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