Moving V6 Box Around

[ajihu]

I've got a V6 box in my bedroom but sometimes want to watch in another room. If I got myself a length of co-ax would there be any issue just moving it and plugging it in temporarily in another room.

Some google searching seems to indicate that unless I get gold plated cable and have a rocket scientist "rebalance the levels" everyone in the street will loose service and VM will hunt me to the ends of the earth. I suspect it'll either work or it won't and if it doesn't nothing bad will happen, other than my wife tripping over loose cable.

[BillBudd]

Hi,

So long as you use decent coax (RG59) with again decent F-type connectors you should be fine.

What length of cable do you anticipate?

Kind Regards,

Bill

[japitts]

A non-fault callout which covers all the parts & labour required for VM to do this work for you, is a flat £25

Considering the potential costs of engineer callouts to correct service faults that well-intentioned DIY jobs could cause, £25 is excellent value.

[BillBudd]

Fair enough, I thought the call out charge was £99.

[nodrogd]

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@BillBudd wrote:
Fair enough, I thought the call out charge was £99.

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It was reduced to £25 a while ago. DIY modifications can & do result in all kinds of network problems as VM has to share the same radio spectrum used by on-air broadcast & mobile phone services. Standard coax will not keep these signals out of the network. This is perhaps one of the reasons for reducing the non-fault callout cost.

[BillBudd]

Good to know, thanks.