its not actually that bad, yeh the netgear firmware for virginmedia is pants and limited, but it gives you the full speed hardwired and wireless. the settings on the router need changing completely to allow this to happen which most people arent aware of, but once changed they tend to fix issues with connectivity and intermittent connection and speed issues. I will have to change to it once the damn 100mb comes but by then hopefully the firmware issues would have been sorted