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Appalling installation
This is the standard of installtion Virgin has put into my home. Unbeleivable.
I do believe it is upside down.
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I do believe it is upside down.
Cardiffman282 wrote:I do believe it is upside down.
or...the house is😁
But easier to see the connections!
Unfortunately all those cables are needed to supply the service. It's hard to see how they could have been hidden away.
Some indication of what the box entails prior to installation would have been good for a start, that way it could have been put BEHIND the TV unit just out of view to the left of the picture.
Astonishingly poor communication, information, and advice from Virgin Media
Cardiffman282 you are absolutely correct. The only reason I can think this was done, is it makes it easier to see the sockets etc. when plugging in the wires. It really should be a revisit by VM to turn it the right way up, and some attempt made to pin the cables down. Of course, until VM finally get rid of co-ax cables, most installs will be pretty clunky.
No doubt the choice here was to mount the correct way up higher up the wall to avoid fouling with the skirting board, or mount wrong way up but at the correct level on the wall.
No win situation really.
I'm a little confused by this install.
Is that box a fibre to coax convertor?
Why not just use the HUB 5x?
I'm assuming it's due to the OP having a TV service, however, that wouldn't work over fibre?
carl_pearce wrote:I'm a little confused by this install.
Is that box a fibre to coax convertor?
Why not just use the HUB 5x?
I'm assuming it's due to the OP having a TV service, however, that wouldn't work over fibre?
Looks like this kind of setup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxlQTCZkeYU
and here
Odd (IMO) arrangement of multiple fibre connections from outside wall box to inside converter unit.
The hub 5X is only for the new XGS-PON areas, otherwise fibre installations are RFoG. VM used to mount the ONT on the outside of the exterior wall with a small internal termination box, but an inside ONT can cause problems.
Not so, there is just one (fibre) cable coming in and two coaxial cables for a hub and a TV box. If you look at the photo, from right to left is fibre, power and coaxials. I have to say, though, that I'd expect the fibre to have been neatly clipped to the skirting board but the lazy installer didn't do that.
Let me rephrase that for clarity (and with reference to the links posted)
Odd (IMO) arrangement of multiple fibre joins via plugs and couplers from outside wall box to inside converter unit.
If you're asking why in the Youtube video there isn't a single fibre from cabinet to ETB I can't tell you, so there is a connection in the ETB where the fibre is terminated and pushed through the hole in the wall. Inside the fibre is connected to an extension cable to the ONT. So long as the connections are good there will be no problem.
I'm not asking a question, merely making an observation. In a BT arrangement, the cable is spliced outside in a weatherproof junction box and a single continuous cable (with a plug on the end) connects to the ONT. I can see advantages and disadvantages to both methods.
