I am awaiting a house move to a property in an area served by VM. No existing VM connection from pavement to house.
My issue is that the house is surrounded by a block paving path and drive. There is a small garden between the boundary brick wall (CATV access point marked on photo) and the front of the house.
I would assume that a hole will be drilled in this boundary wall with the cable possibly fed up the RHS of the garden until it hits the RHS of the front path with the external brown box being located perhaps near the water butt.
1) Would the installer just lay the exposed 1m of cabling on the top of the path inside the green tubing?
2) Assuming that the brown external box is to the RHS of the front door, would I then be able to have the connection to the internal access point (where I want the router to go) fed to a room which is on the LHS of the house next to the garage (rather than the closest room to where the external brown box is sited)? Or am I expecting too much?
TIA
Not sure If I have seen this answered but if you have a TIVO unit installed at the same time as cable could you have a spur going off the main cable just to the TIVO unit with the main line to the router going to a different location within the same building i.e. 2 holes drilled externally instead of just 1 plus internal cabling? The picture will priobably explain it better.
@Eeeps wrote:That's the normal situation with TV and Broadband - so long as the cable is easily routed externally.
A single coaxial cable comes in from the street (if you are in an older HFC area) to a box on your wall (Omni Box).
A passive (un-powered) splitter is placed in that box and the two cables routed to where you want them.
At each of those locations a connection box is placed internally.The TV box needs an Internet connection so you'll need to make sure it can connect to the Broadband hub. An Ethernet cable is best although wireless can work ok. Running an Ethernet cable along the same route as the coaxial cable for the TV box works well.
BTW you'll get a TV360 box not a TIVO if you are a new customer.
All good information here. Feeding the ethernet cable from the hub (in the dining room) to the TV360 box in the lounge would suit me even better so really my install might look like this. Presumably all I'd need to ensure is that the 2 holes drilled into the wall by the i nstaller(lounge and dining room) will accomodate both the virgin cable and the ethernet cable.
