Re: Virgin Fibre Install?

["domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

(I'm a VM employee)

The box of the side of the house will typically then just drill through
(un=
less you want a cable running around the call - usually not a problem,
IMO)=
, when inside the cable can run where you want, but will hit a splitter,
on=
e output for your broadband, one for your STB.  Those cables are still
coax=
, so can be pretty long too.

If you ask, you can even discuss in advance with the surveyor/installer,
an=
d be sure what you want is possible.  (Technically your STB & modem
need to=
be less than 200-250m from the last 'powered' point e.g. green cab, but th=
at's almost never a problem, or they wouldn't have built it right !  Only
s=
aying in case you want a STB 300m down the bottom of your garden :-) )

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Quinten Uijldert <yahoogroups2@...> wrote:
>
> That's my experience as well.  The Virgin engineer installed the point
> exactly where I wanted him to install in node zero, no questions
asked.
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> On 9 December 2011 09:32, Brian Smith <briview@...> wrote:
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> > Hi Chris
> >
> > In my case virgin are fibre to the cabinet and then coax to the
house.
> >  After a mini digger incident on the drive I had to get them out
to rep=
lace
> > that cable but the installers were more than happy to terminate
on the
> > house wall and leave the rest to me so I just pointed to where I
wanted=
the
> > box.
> >
> > Then I just ran another cable (left over from the install) to
node zero=
.
> > The coax then has a splitter with one output to the STB and the
other t=
o
> > the modem.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On 8 Dec 2011, at 22:48, "Chris"
<chrisnharris@...> wrote:
> >
> > > Virgin Media have just 'Fibred' my street, and so I was
thinking of
> > changing my ISP to them and even maybe getting a Tivo etc.
> > >
> > > Having just decorated the lounge, and also wanting any
router to rema=
in
> > in my node 0, I'm not keen on a couple of chaps with big drills
> > 'installing' any boxes where they think is convienant and that I
won't =
be
> > able to move after they've gone. Well who hasn't moved a phone
line!
> > >
> > > Anyone got any experience of what they actually install and
where the
> > fibre terminates and into what. And then what cables become the
broadba=
nd=85
> > and what goes to the telly etc.. In other words what can I
pre-lay?
> > >
> > > Thanks Chris.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> > > Yahoo! Groups Links
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> > Yahoo! Groups Links
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