The engineer was right.
There are routers for phone lines (ADSL), and routers for Cable lines (called Cable Routers funnily enough).
The main difference is that a ADSL Router has the modem built in, a Cable router does not and you still need to use the Virgin supplied modem.
You can see on this PC World page here, that some routers are listed under ADSL and others under Cable.
The engineer was right.
There are routers for phone lines (ADSL), and routers for Cable lines (called Cable Routers funnily enough).
The main difference is that a ADSL Router has the modem built in, a Cable router does not and you still need to use the Virgin supplied modem.
You can see on this PC World page here, that some routers are listed under ADSL and others under Cable.
http://www.pcworld.co.uk/martprd/editorial/net working_homepage/?int=home_nav