2 V+ Boxes ???

[Madam]

First post so be gentle please...............

Am a existing VM customer with an XL package..........

Want one V+ box in my front room where there's already a cable box on the wall for a connection but want another one in the dinning room (for another proposed TV) but theres no cable box in there, my questions are........

1. How will they get a feed to the second V+ box if the TV isn't against the outside wall ???
2. Do they split the existing box outside the front room and run a cable outside the house then into the dinning room ???
3. Am i completely stupid ???

[peterseventy]

1. They installed a trifurcating box on the outside wall of the house where the Virgin cable comes in from the street. The trifurcating box is a splitter which has three coaxial cables coming out: in our installation, one cable goes through the wall to a V+ box in the sitting room nearby, two cables go up the outside wall into the loft space from whence one goes down to a bedroom for a Virgin non-PVR box (not V+) on an inside wall, and the other goes down to another bedroom for a broadband connection. Getting a cable to your dining room could be messy, but favourite would probably be from their bifurcating (or trifurcating) box through the outside wall into your dining room, thence along the skirting board to your TV site. The cable to our V+ box had to have a small metal isolator box fitted in line, which we screwed to the skirting board when they had gone.

Like alarm fitters and telephone installers everywhere, they will staple the cable to your skirting boards horribly; we always remove the staples later and glue cables onto the top of the skirting board. A coat or two of paint then renders them invisible. You could put ducts in before Virgin come (B&Q, all sizes) but chipping out plaster and brickwork for ducts makes an awful mess and some re-decoration will be needed. If you do ducts, choose one big enough for your future needs - loudspeakers, headphones, SCART leads, telephones, Ethernet network cable ...

2. The Virgin installers wanted to split our existing TV cable in the loft to make the broadband connection because it was less trouble to them, but we insisted that they ran separate cables for the broadband and the upstairs TV because we had already had problems of poor signal strength, for which they eventually had to re-wire their street cable.

3: No

[Madam]

Marvellous explanation..............