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sblake67
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2 months ago

Garden Room

I am having  garden room built soon and would like to have a tv with my Virgin Media in there. I currently have multi room with two boxes. What is the best way to achieve this please.

Thanks in advance for any help

6 Replies

  • Ayisha_B's avatar
    Ayisha_B
    Icon for Forum Team rankForum Team
    2 months ago

    Hi sblake67 👋,

    Welcome back to our Community Forums and thanks for your post. 

    In order for us to advise, please could you clarify the following:

    Is this a relocation of one of the boxes, or will it be a new third box? 
    Is the wiring the same in this garden room as the main house or separate?

    Hope to hear from you soon 😊👋

  • Adduxi's avatar
    Adduxi
    Very Insightful Person
    2 months ago

    Get the electrician to run two external grade ethernet cables out to the room and terminate to a switch.  From the switch connect a VM Stream box for the TV.  No need to run co-ax cables. If Wifi is also needed, connect a Wifi access point to the switch.

    • japitts's avatar
      japitts
      Very Insightful Person
      2 months ago

      rom the switch connect a VM Stream box for the TV.  No need to run co-ax cables.

      That works... if the OP has TV360 or Stream currently. If they have TiVo or V6, then the multi-room solution is another V6 which is also co-ax reliant.

      sblake67​ - check which boxes you have currently, as per the pictures on https://www.virginmedia.com/care/tv-fault/which-tv-box - if it's a thinner, squarer box you have then it's likely the newer Stream platform. Feel free to take a picture and post it here otherwise.

      TiVo & V6 run the TiVo-platform. TV360 & Stream run the Horizon-platform. Stream is non-recording, whilst TiVo, V6 & TV360 are all HDD-based. You cannot mix TiVo-firmware & Horizon-firmware.

  • Roger_Gooner's avatar
    Roger_Gooner
    Alessandro Volta
    2 months ago

    If you have a TiVo or V6 then migrate to a 360 and a Stream. You don't want a coaxial cable running into a garden due to possible signal issues.

    Also best to dig a trench, minimum depth of 0.5 metres (500mm) with separate conduits for exterior-grade cables, meaning steel wire armoured (SWA) cable and direct-burial grade Ethernet Cat 6. Inside the garden room you should terminate the SWA cable into a consumer unit (CU) or a large fused connection unit (FCU) and the Ethernet cable inside a keystone jack or surface-mounted back box (faceplate). You need a qualified electrician to do the connections (but you can do the trench digging and cable laying yourself).

    I recommend a gigabit network switch with at least four ports so that you can plug in a Stream box, games controller, wireless access point (if Wi-Fi from hub is poor), etc.

  • sblake67's avatar
    sblake67
    Joining in
    2 months ago

    I would be looking for an additional box. New room being built, with a wifi access point 

    • Sabrina_B's avatar
      Sabrina_B
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      2 months ago

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