@jocatz wrote:
Sorry Travis couls I just ask whether the technician would alsi be able to look into the possibility of "ask VM, via the forum team on here, to make modifications to your phone wiring so you can keep each piece of equipment in the same place" sorry this turning into such a long session for you.
The VM tech should be able to modify your phone wiring to allow you to keep all of your equipment in the same place.
There are various ways they can do this but one way which gets mentioned on here quite regularly is by the use of an adapter lead. There is a picture of the lead at message #9 in the link below
https://community.virginmedia.com/t5/Forum-Archive/HUB3-to-Master-socket-adaptor/m-p/4507007#M143805
The VM tech can fit a new telephone socket next to your VM hub. From that new socket a phone cable can be installed and connected to one of your existing telephone sockets.
One end of the adapter lead is plugged into the TEL1 socket on the VM hub and the other end of the adapter lead is plugged into the new telephone socket fitted by the VM tech. The effect of doing this with the adapter lead is to 'back-feed' the telephone connection from the back of the VM hub into the old telephone wiring and thus allow your telephone sockets to become 'live' again and now work from the phone connection on the hub.
You would need to agree the route for any new cabling with the VM technician. To minimise wiring inside, it might be possible for the new phone wiring to follow the same cable route of the coax cable to the hub and out to the plastic omnibox outside and make any join to the telephone wiring out there. Or you may be able to agree an internal cable route if that suits you better.
The VM tech should also disconnect your old phone cable coming into your home from the street to prevent your new phone connection from the hub being fed back outside.
The technician should handle all of that for you. You would just need to agree things on site with the VM tech depending on where your existing cable runs are and what is practical. Make sure though that you end up with something that suits your requirements and not something that is just the quickest fix that is easiest and simplest for the VM tech's benefit (particularly if you want to keep all items of equipment where they are).
Hope you manage to get it sorted as you want.
