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Perfect Choice · 04-02-2008, 16:43

Once the cable is split from the OMNI box, the cabling will typically be attached to the outside of your property to the multiple locations where you want the cable to enter and holes drilled through.

The point here is that you then have 3 cables running around the outside your house if they need to be drilled through at different locations to where the OMNI box is put on the outside of your house to first terminate the VM cable from the street to your property. Your TV, PC and telephone may be located in different parts of your house so you need to decide how the cable will get to them, how much is outside and whether you will cable inside (get a wireless router if I were you for broadband which if you had ADSL before means you have to buy a new router)

So think where you want the OMNI box located and decide how the cabling will go around your house.

In my own case I had ducting put under the brick work at the front of my house to hide the cables otherwise it may look a little “busy” with 2 thick and one thin (phone) cable attached to your house to where you want them to be drilled through, if you want the OMNI box to be fixed to your house away from where the cabling will enter your house. All down to individual circumstances of course.

On the inside the installation engineer will fix sufficient cabling attached to your TV. etc where the entry point is in the same room as the item. They will not cable around the inside of your house so make sure they drill through where you want them to avoid problems, better to sort out with cabling on the outside rather than the inside IMHO. I’ve also heard of bad experiences where cable has been left across the floor of a room to get to the destination like a TV, not my experience but shows you need to think about the cable entry points to the inside of your property.

04-02-2008, 16:43	#4
Perfect Choice cf.member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 49	Re: How are multiple VM services provided? Once the cable is split from the OMNI box, the cabling will typically be attached to the outside of your property to the multiple locations where you want the cable to enter and holes drilled through. The point here is that you then have 3 cables running around the outside your house if they need to be drilled through at different locations to where the OMNI box is put on the outside of your house to first terminate the VM cable from the street to your property. Your TV, PC and telephone may be located in different parts of your house so you need to decide how the cable will get to them, how much is outside and whether you will cable inside (get a wireless router if I were you for broadband which if you had ADSL before means you have to buy a new router) So think where you want the OMNI box located and decide how the cabling will go around your house. In my own case I had ducting put under the brick work at the front of my house to hide the cables otherwise it may look a little “busy” with 2 thick and one thin (phone) cable attached to your house to where you want them to be drilled through, if you want the OMNI box to be fixed to your house away from where the cabling will enter your house. All down to individual circumstances of course. On the inside the installation engineer will fix sufficient cabling attached to your TV. etc where the entry point is in the same room as the item. They will not cable around the inside of your house so make sure they drill through where you want them to avoid problems, better to sort out with cabling on the outside rather than the inside IMHO. I’ve also heard of bad experiences where cable has been left across the floor of a room to get to the destination like a TV, not my experience but shows you need to think about the cable entry points to the inside of your property.