Home News Forum Articles
  Welcome back Join CF
You are here You are here: Home | Forum | new install soon.....

You are currently viewing our boards as a guest which gives you limited access to view most of the discussions, articles and other free features. By joining our Virgin Media community you will have full access to all discussions, be able to view and post threads, communicate privately with other members (PM), respond to polls, upload your own images/photos, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free so please join our community today.


Welcome to Cable Forum
Go Back   Cable Forum > Virgin Media Services > Virgin Media Installation Issues

new install soon.....
Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 17-02-2012, 13:38   #1
griffen76
Inactive
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 2
griffen76 is an unknown quantity at this point
new install soon.....

Hi people of this forum

We have v,media coming soon,and was curious to what to expect on install day.We have ordered 3 tivo boxes and 1 v hd box plus phone and broadband.Also we are in the optic fibre area. So my q's are

how do v.m get all the cables from their street box to my house ? will they dig up my garden to lay the cables etc ?

Once the cables are upto the house, can i have the coax cable running on the outside walls to the correct rooms or would they expect to do all the wireing from inside the house (i dont want this)


any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated
griffen76 is offline   Reply With Quote
Advertisement
Old 17-02-2012, 13:58   #2
Digital Fanatic
Inactive
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Liverpool
Services: VM XL TV with VM TiVo 1TB x 2 > VM XL BB > VM XL Telephone
Posts: 8,384
Digital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny star
Digital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny star
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by griffen76 View Post
Hi people of this forum

We have v,media coming soon,and was curious to what to expect on install day.We have ordered 3 tivo boxes and 1 v hd box plus phone and broadband.Also we are in the optic fibre area. So my q's are

how do v.m get all the cables from their street box to my house ? will they dig up my garden to lay the cables etc ?

Once the cables are upto the house, can i have the coax cable running on the outside walls to the correct rooms or would they expect to do all the wireing from inside the house (i dont want this)


any advice on this matter is greatly appreciated
If your house has never had cable, then they will need to lay a cable from the swept tee in the road to your house. This can be in a shallow trench or along a wall, which ever is best.

The engineers prefer to cable on the outside of the house, so will love you for wanting that! It's easier
Digital Fanatic is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-02-2012, 14:16   #3
griffen76
Inactive
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 2
griffen76 is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: new install soon.....

thanks for your reply,i have no garden wall so a trench looks like the outcome there. so it would seem my prefered choice is possible, they put this brown box on my wall - presumably some form of junction box and take all the extra feeds from there. also does the same install team dig the trench or is this done by different people on a previous day ?
griffen76 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-02-2012, 18:21   #4
judgey
Inactive
 
Join Date: Feb 2012
Posts: 155
judgey is an unknown quantity at this point
Re: new install soon.....

they run all the cables from the omni box { brown box} along the outside to the relevent rooms you want.
judgey is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-02-2012, 19:12   #5
progers
Pete
 
progers's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Nuneaton
Services: Broadband Up to 100Mb ~ TV Mix & TiVo 1Tb ~ Phone: Talk More Anytime
Posts: 1,056
progers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these partsprogers is just so famous around these parts
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by griffen76 View Post
. also does the same install team dig the trench or is this done by different people on a previous day ?
The same team digs the hole
progers is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 17-02-2012, 21:17   #6
jb66
cf.mega poster
 
jb66's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 5,386
jb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze array
jb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze array
Re: new install soon.....

Your having 5 pieces of equipment, there is no way all the feeds will come from the brown box, it will be a mix of internal and external wiring
jb66 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 13:50   #7
Digital Fanatic
Inactive
 
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location: Liverpool
Services: VM XL TV with VM TiVo 1TB x 2 > VM XL BB > VM XL Telephone
Posts: 8,384
Digital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny star
Digital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny starDigital Fanatic has a nice shiny star
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by jb66 View Post
Your having 5 pieces of equipment, there is no way all the feeds will come from the brown box, it will be a mix of internal and external wiring
Probably one feed to the living room, then outside to 1st floor, then internal for the rest?
Digital Fanatic is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 13:59   #8
Chris
Trollsplatter
Cable Forum Team
 
Chris's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: North of Watford
Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests
Posts: 36,870
Chris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden aura
Chris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden auraChris has a golden aura
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by griffen76 View Post
Hi people of this forum

We have v,media coming soon,and was curious to what to expect on install day.We have ordered 3 tivo boxes and 1 v hd box plus phone and broadband.
Blinking nora. How much is that costing you?
Chris is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 17:20   #9
papa smurf
vox populi vox dei
 
papa smurf's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: the last resort
Services: every thing
Posts: 13,739
papa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny stars
papa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny stars
Re: new install soon.....

i would be very interested to see if that lot works off 1 drop cable
__________________
To be or not to be, woke is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous wokedome, Or to take arms against a sea of wokies. And by opposing end them.
papa smurf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 19:03   #10
jb66
cf.mega poster
 
jb66's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 5,386
jb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze array
jb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze array
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by papa smurf View Post
i would be very interested to see if that lot works off 1 drop cable
Easy!

Technically i could get 16 pieces of equipment working with no issues!
jb66 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 19:42   #11
papa smurf
vox populi vox dei
 
papa smurf's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: the last resort
Services: every thing
Posts: 13,739
papa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny stars
papa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny starspapa smurf has a pair of shiny stars
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by jb66 View Post
Easy!

Technically i could get 16 pieces of equipment working with no issues!
16 that must take some high level of technical skill
__________________
To be or not to be, woke is the question Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer. The slings and arrows of outrageous wokedome, Or to take arms against a sea of wokies. And by opposing end them.
papa smurf is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 20:04   #12
jb66
cf.mega poster
 
jb66's Avatar
 
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 5,386
jb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze array
jb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze arrayjb66 has a bronze array
Re: new install soon.....

Nah just a lot of wiries! You "could" fit an hdu and then 4 4 way splitters but would be a wires everywhere.

It depends on the house really. I was at a house last week who had 5 boxes and a modem. It was all wired under the floor and was a two way splitter with two 3 ways attatched. He must have been on the top tap
jb66 is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 18-02-2012, 23:50   #13
qasdfdsaq
cf.mega poster
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
Posts: 11,207
qasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronze
qasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronzeqasdfdsaq is cast in bronze
Re: new install soon.....

Quote:
Originally Posted by papa smurf View Post
16 that must take some high level of technical skill
Some ex-TW areas have dozens of homes on a single drop cable.
qasdfdsaq is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply


Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
 
Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off

Forum Jump


All times are GMT +1. The time now is 14:33.


Server: osmium.zmnt.uk
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.