I recently moved into a house. The virgin medium sockets looks very messy on the wall. Do I have to use two boxes with a power supply? Can I connect the Hub 3 directly to the cable which is coming out of the virgin wall socket at the right most?
The box on the left looks like a powered splitter (basically a single booster), so possibly the previous people had issues (a TV upstairs maybe) and the booster was fitted to fix that - just speculation though.
But yes, it can do no harm to just try connecting the hub directly to the coax cable from the right hand box and see. If it works and is consistent for a week or so then fine and you can remove everything else. And if not; then just put it back the way it is.
Isn't it an RFoG setup?
I will try that, although I do not think it is that simple.
The box second from right is the ONT, so connect your hub to either of the coaxial cables coming out of it. It will need to remain powered to work. The box on the right is the internal termination box which provides the fibre to the ONT.
From the shape of the enclosure, the box second from right looks like an old distribution amplifier
https://www.techkings.org/threads/anyone-help-with-fdu-51.132545/
I will try that, although I do not think it is that simple.
There is nothing to stop you connecting your VM hub direct to the supply socket on the right hand side box to see if it works or not.
But the fact that you have the amplifier in place, and there is a further passive component connected to the supply side of the amplifier, suggests the previous customer had some sort of issue with signal level or quality.
What description does it say on the opposite side of the passive device connected to the supply cable to the amplifier (the side we can't see of metal rectangular component under the arrow)?
