I apologise in advance if you're already aware of this but as you don't seem to understand why i use a switch it makes me wonder if we're visualising different things as in my case a switch is surely ideal? When i say switch i don't mean one of these:
I don't mean one of these:
I mean one of these:
Regards the router, it's an all in one i believe so i should've said modem/router i guess. My bad.
It really is not difficult to understand. You say you know that with Sky and BT the internet comes into the home through the phone lines. That's correct. With Virgin it comes by a separate cable system. After that its just the same.
Yeah i'm talking about before that.
See with Sky & BT i know the broadband comes in from the phone line, connects to the top of your house, the cable runs down the house, drilled in through the wall in to a box which out of this is a socket for the phone line and also a socket to connect to your modem.
If i was asking how the Sky/BT is installed then ^^ that's the sort of answer i'd be looking at regards it entering the house.
With Virgin i see it doesn't come from the phone line, it seems to come from underground. As my area didn't have Virgin until this week then i'm wondering how they get it from 'out there' - the pavement, to my house.
I remember a year or so ago the pavements in the area being dug up. My drive wasn't. And like i said, we haven't had Virgin available until now.
So
in my mind, all the equipment is under the pavement but how does it get from there to my house?
Again
in my mind, it's different cabling so you'd have to run it from the pavement to my house where it'd then be fed through the wall in to a box right? So surely they have 2 options ... go underground (under my drive) and then up, or go on my drive, trail it round (my flapping in the wind comment) and then in to the wall.
Sorry if this is overthinking for the majority of people but i like to know what happens.
Sorry if i'm not catching on too quick. I'm not being difficult. Maybe i need to see it (on someone elses house) first.
This is all aside from the fact that we probably wont be able to have it done. I spent between £5k-£10k on the house being tanked. Any drilling we were told will break the continuation of the tanking and it's whether that would void the warranty - and at the money i just mentioned, i will do all the looking in to it that i have to before i sign up. That will involve getting in touch with the tanking manufacturer also to ask what they recommend and whether the warranty will still be valid.
I would respectfully suggest that you contact Virgin and ask for someone to come to see you and survey your home and suggest how the job might be done. Then you could decide whether to go ahead.
That's a good call. Thank you. I may miss out on some 'new to your area' deal but i'd rather that than jump in both feet. I just may do that.
The digging already done will be to put ducting into allow cabling to be run from the green street cabinet to the individual properties. They cannot use the ducting for another service e.g. gas or water. Each property will have a riser next to it and a cable will be pulled from here to the cabinet using cable pulling techniques. This cable was traditionally coaxial and a telephone line, new installs in new areas may be fibre (FTTP).
Ahh thank you. I'll have a look to see what's out there.
From the riser the cable will be taken across to your house. How this is achieved depends clearly on what you have between the pavement and your house. So yes if you have block paveway drive and they cannot go along and round it they will have to take it up. Going across a lawn may involve putting a long spade in to make a deep split and pushing the cable down. How long that will take clearly the guy on the phone will not know unless he is having a guess looking at Google Earth or similar.
Ahhh. Again thank you. I remember reading some years ago about the possibility of cabling running down peoples fences/hedges. I didn't know if this was a wind up.
We had the small grassy area taken up to put paving down to allow two cars on the drive. Looks like this could be a problem then. I'm assuming Virgin Media take car of the whole thing (as in they wont tell us, go get someone to lift your drive, then we'll come out, then you're to get that person to put your drive back together)?
These guys must be decent (you'd hope) to deal with a whole range of possibilities.
In areas where VM have been around for a while a lot of properties will already have had the cables pulled to each house, hence you won't see that often. In a new location you will see them, they can also have a separate team to do the cable to the house install before a technician does the termination and internal work.
Ahh i see. I remember when we were buying the house & you do all that form filling - i'm fairly sure that it said on the paperwork that there was Virgin at the house, yet when i checked the post code it wasn't available. I'd been checking regularly over the years & only now has it come available. Like i said, i'm only fairly sure and even when i've been 99.9% sure i've been known to be wrong so i could well be wrong in this case.
Virgin will run cables externally if necessary to get from one room to another.
That's handy to know although we would only need one access point. If the Virgin modem goes where the existing modem is then everything is set up. The cat6 cable already runs under the floorboards to the living room which connects the TV, blu ray player, Wii U & (currently) BT YouView box to the internet, oh as well as the TV. And then another cable runs upstairs to connect the desktop PC to the internet so that everything is already cabled.
The only time it'd be a problem is if it needed specialist cables i guess.