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    Hi, having virgin tv/broadband fitted in a months time. Was thinking about the cables coming into the house? How many go to the tv box? Thinking best place for cables to enter the house? any pics/advice would be helpful? Thanks

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    Off topic, talk to spennny. He works for VM and might get you a good deal.

    When I had cable. One wire came in the house and then split in two. One to the tv box and one to the broadband box. Mine was non-HD do I dunno if the HD box is different.

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    We've got full package, TV, Broadband, landline. Can't attach pics, just keeps coming up "failed".
    Double black wire outside house comes in through grommet, inside we have white cover phone socket size, then under one wire to a small metal junction box like a mouth organ size, with 3 wires out.
    Hope it helps, if you want pics, pm me your email and I'll try again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reevo View Post
    Was thinking about the cables coming into the house?
    How many go to the tv box?
    Thinking best place for cables to enter the house?
    Firstly look at other houses in the street to see where there cable enters the house
    Some properties have a metal box on the exterior, others it simply climbs the wall to the entry point

    From there determine the possible combinations of room into where you want it to enter
    Finally, work out the shortest route through your house so that all the required rooms have one cable, as the cable works its way through the house then each can split or have its own connection; ie series or hub and spoke

    One cable goes to each device, splitting from the main cable as required

    My installation :
    enters living room through wall (hidden by a small white box), splits into three, one for TV, other for extension, and third connects into phone line positioned directly to the side (disconnected)
    extension runs into corner of room and through ceiling to upstairs
    Bedroom 3 the cable appears through the floor and splits, one for TV (disconnected), other for extension
    extension runs into corner of room and through wall
    Bedroom 1 the cable appears through wall and splits, one for TV (disconnected) other and modem

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    when they come to install it try and get the wireless router to be put in the middle of the house as the range isnt good they put mine right at the front as it came into the house means if im in the back of the house upstairs the signal is very low
    and i dont live in a massive house so god knows how people get on in big houses

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    Quote Originally Posted by Reevo View Post
    Hi, having virgin tv/broadband fitted in a months time. Was thinking about the cables coming into the house? How many go to the tv box? Thinking best place for cables to enter the house? any pics/advice would be helpful? Thanks
    You can call them up and ask them to come out ans show you how they will do it, i think when i submitted soulmans details he had a visit to plan it, i may be wrong , was a while ago

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    when they come to install it try and get the wireless router to be put in the middle of the house as the range isnt good they put mine right at the front as it came into the house means if im in the back of the house upstairs the signal is very low
    and i dont live in a massive house so god knows how people get on in big houses
    Depends on the router, if you have a modem and dlink set up then i had no issues at all using that, since i got the superhub there have been 1 or 2 connection issues, they have been resolved with the latest FW update

    Or you can bridge your superhub to use the d-link router

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    slightly off topic but is there any way to link up a second router/modem and wifi setup vto extend range and stabilty?

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    Thanks guys thats alot of helpful info!. Was wondering if it was like sky and going to have 2 or 3 thick cables coming through the wall going alll round the room! Hows everyone find the system n service? We're swapping over from sky HD, was happy with the tv side of things but the broadband was very slow @ times, Virgin had a good offer which worked out cheaper for us in the long run so we took it. We're having meduim phone & the XL tv/broadband.

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    No real complaints, the odd problem, but unplugging the tv booox or modem for a couple of minutes sorts 95% of the few we've had. Tend to find first line answering on phoneline are a waste of space, but we've not needed to talk to them much.

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    I'm in a semi detached & the cable comes into the lounge from a brown box on the outside wall, There's one cable to the virgin tv box, There's also a cable from the outside box going around the outside coming in to the under-stairs cupboard, the wireless router sits just outside the door of the cupboard with the cable coming through the skirting, its all neat & barley visible, Ask the engineer to tell you how he can route it all before hand otherwise the quickest or easiest route maybe taken.

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