Re: Virgin Fibre Install?

["turner228" <kevin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

My install was some time ago but they were very helpful on the day

1) They installed the 'brown' splitter box in an unobtrusive location at
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ound level at the side of the house

2) Took a coax feed for the stb through into the front room using a route
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nd locatiuon I had selected

3) took a coax up the wall into the loft obscured behind a drain pipe for
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he (then) modem (now a 'super hub')

4) ditto for a telephone cable to the master socket in the loft.

I would say that if they are given no direction then they will always go
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r the easiest routes and installation, and this may not be the most
unobtru=
sive.

In general, if cables are going from the brown box around the house, get
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em to follow the damp course line as this is already black and for
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follow the pipes up and to 1st floor etc.

It is worth you spending some time thinking about how *you* want it done
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d where *you* want things. Be there on the day and don't rely on others
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might be persauded that there were 'better'(easier) ways.

HTH

kevint

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Chris" <chrisnharris@...> wrote:
>
> Virgin Media have just 'Fibred' my street, and so I was thinking of
chang=
ing my ISP to them and even maybe getting a Tivo etc.
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> Having just decorated the lounge, and also wanting any router to
remain i=
n 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!
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> Anyone got any experience of what they actually install and where the
fib=
re terminates and into what. And then what cables become the broadband=85
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nd what goes to the telly etc.. In other words what can I pre-lay?
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> Thanks Chris.
>




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