Virgin Media setup
 

Hi all,

I was wondering if I could get some advice. I was asked to help setup virgin media for my mother, as a doctor my mother has always been opposed to wireless, and thus frankly refused to have it in the house. Here in is where the problem begins...

She lives in a 3 bedroom house (1 room dedicated for her study), now at the moment she has broadband (superhub)/phone/tv downstairs. We also have a the same phoneline split upstairs, with a broadband/tv point as well (from previous occupiers who had tv in their main room). Now normally I would just run an ethernet cable from the hub upstairs; the problem is that we would need an extremely long cable and we are trying to look for alternatives (Even at a higher cost... :confused:).

So I rang virgin media up and asked is it possible to have two super hubs? I was told no, I then asked is there anyway of purchasing a second internet line to run upstairs as the box/cabling is already installed upstairs and was told no....

Following on from this I looked into virgin media adsl, but I was simply told no once again... with the excuse that there can only ever be one internet line... :mad:

I looked round for other providers, but all seem to want us to take out a different line rental or dont work with virgin media....

Is there any suggestions to this work around? Or is ethernet cable trawling the only way? Are there any adsl providers who could connect from our virgin media phone socket and not be affected by the fact we have virgin media braodband....?

Any help with this matter would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

JoJo

Re: Virgin Media setup
 

Have you consider Powerline ethernet HomePlugs?

Re: Virgin Media setup
 

I have to admit I did not consider these, any suggestions on which ones are good?

Re: Virgin Media setup
 

Well I've recently got these http://www.expertreviews.co.uk/power...us-starter-kit and they are very good (if a bit expensive)

Re: Virgin Media setup
 

Ethernet should be fine over the distance you are talking about, if you have somewhere safe to run the cable.

Not sure if you use a computer downstairs, but if you don't, you could move the superhub and connect it to the cable point there.

Powerline homeplugs are also a good suggestion.

You can't use ADSL on Virgin Media telephone lines because they are on a 'closed circuit' which no one else has access to.

Re: Virgin Media setup
 

IIRC ethernet can be run up to 100 metres without having to boost the signal.

Re: Virgin Media setup
 

No. Virgin media won't allow any ADSL providers to connect via their phone sockets.

All ADSL providers are not affected by virgin media broadband, as they use a BT socket.

If it were me I wouldn't hesitate to just run the ethernet cable. Not only because I find cabling fun, but it can be used for tons of other stuff.

Ultimately though I think this whole thing is paranoia. Baby monitors, microwaves, and neighbours with mobile phones will all give off the same or more radiation than wireless would in your home, and there's no real way of avoiding the latter.