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Kennylen's avatar
Kennylen
Joining in
2 months ago

Newbie help

Hi guys. 
just joined Virgin broadband & the forum thank you for having me. 

ok so I’m usually pretty good with IT & in my last property I installed a wired broadband network so my 2 children have the best speeds with their gaming consoles. 

I have just moved into a new house & signed up for virgin broadband. 

I have set up the hub with no issues so now I would like to create another wired network around the house but before I go tearing up floorboards & chasing cables round the house I have noticed I have 1 of these in every room of the house see picture (apart from kitchen & bathroom) 

 

my question is is it possible the network is already in the house & is there any way to convert an isolator cable to an RJ45 connection that would give me GB speeds around the house? 

thank you for taking the time to read my post & any help would be greatly appreciated. 

 

  • Tudor's avatar
    Tudor
    2 months ago

    They are termination points for the VM coax. Each one should have a terminator installed otherwise there may be noise ingress into the system which will not only affect you, but all other users on the same street box. The cables from these boxes would go to the outside omnibox where there will be a splitter. There is a possibility that this has been removed by the previous owners. As to the Ethernet cables, best to just run some new ones, but always run two for contingency, makes life easier if one fails.

  • jpeg1's avatar
    jpeg1
    Alessandro Volta
    2 months ago

    If they are ethernet cables you can plug them into the Hub, which has four ports.

    If they are coax you can't use them except with expensive adaptors at each end. 

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

    They are termination points for the VM coax. Each one should have a terminator installed otherwise there may be noise ingress into the system which will not only affect you, but all other users on the same street box. The cables from these boxes would go to the outside omnibox where there will be a splitter. There is a possibility that this has been removed by the previous owners. As to the Ethernet cables, best to just run some new ones, but always run two for contingency, makes life easier if one fails.

  • carl_pearce's avatar
    carl_pearce
    Community elder
    2 months ago

    Depending on the cabling you could use the spare wall sockets with MoCA adapters, however, as already mentioned it's not cheap.

  • Kennylen's avatar
    Kennylen
    Joining in
    2 months ago

    Hi Guys. 
    thank you all for the reply’s they are very much appreciated. 

    i will be wiring in a network something to keep me busy between Xmas & new year 

     

    all the best all