Neil S
11-04-2007, 17:49
Hi,
Had my VM cable installed yesterday and everything seems to be working ok in spite of the installation disk's attemps to foul things up.
Part way through the install it came up with an error relating to DHCP acquiring addresses automatically. I managed to sort that out and it appeared to install ok, only to come up with error 800 -"... services unavailable at the moment, try again later".
Despite repeated attempts it would go no further. Eventually I minimised the set-up screen and started Internet Explorer and it fired up straight on to the Virgin Home page, large as life, twice as ugly and fully functional.
The problem now was to shut down the install, as simply clicking "cancel" would uninstall everything done so far. This was actually done quite easily using Task Manager.
What surprised me was that I hadn't been required to enter any form of ID or register a Mac address.
I've seen it suggested elsewhere that these disks are actually intended for dial-up installations and no additional software should be required for cable with ethernet connection.
I did eventually have to use the internet username and password provided in the Welcome Pack in order to set up email addresses, and this was quite straightforward.
An odd thing is that sometimes the PC light on the modem flashes, sometimes it doesn't, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Hope these comments might be of use to other Virgin virgins, as there do seem to be changes happening all the time.
Neil
Had my VM cable installed yesterday and everything seems to be working ok in spite of the installation disk's attemps to foul things up.
Part way through the install it came up with an error relating to DHCP acquiring addresses automatically. I managed to sort that out and it appeared to install ok, only to come up with error 800 -"... services unavailable at the moment, try again later".
Despite repeated attempts it would go no further. Eventually I minimised the set-up screen and started Internet Explorer and it fired up straight on to the Virgin Home page, large as life, twice as ugly and fully functional.
The problem now was to shut down the install, as simply clicking "cancel" would uninstall everything done so far. This was actually done quite easily using Task Manager.
What surprised me was that I hadn't been required to enter any form of ID or register a Mac address.
I've seen it suggested elsewhere that these disks are actually intended for dial-up installations and no additional software should be required for cable with ethernet connection.
I did eventually have to use the internet username and password provided in the Welcome Pack in order to set up email addresses, and this was quite straightforward.
An odd thing is that sometimes the PC light on the modem flashes, sometimes it doesn't, but it doesn't seem to matter.
Hope these comments might be of use to other Virgin virgins, as there do seem to be changes happening all the time.
Neil