Brand New Phoneline Installation; Junction Box - Seriously Concerned.

Winema

Hello,

Basically I am in shared student accommodation and we're currently with Virgin Media - My housemates are rather selfish and the connection can't handle the amount of traffic and has become seriously slow and I am a professional gamer "Yes, those do exist I actually get paid money from corporations such as Dell, Alienware and Intel" - So I am required to have a perfect internet connection at all times.

I've come to the decision to have a completely separate phone line installed into my bedroom which would not be an extension of the pre-existing phone line. This is purely to allow two separate broadband connections to the same household.

My concern is that I can locate the master socket of the pre-existing phone line and I think I have located where the phone wire leads - but exits into the ceiling and I am unable to locate the junction box - I do not even know if this should be of any concern to my new phone line being installed.

On one hand I imagine that if a brand new set of apartments for example are being built and do not have a phone lines - that they would clearly all have separate phone lines and junction boxes anyhow.

Would this be the same for me, in the fact that I don't need to have any concern where the pre-existing junction box in the house as I would be having a brand new phone line installed and a brand new junction box with it completely separate from the already existing line?

bod1467

Are you saying the shared accommodation is flats? If yes then the distribution board (junction box) may be in a cupboard somewhere. Typically BT (when installing a "new" line) will simply activate the existing line (if available). However you may be able to persuade them to install your master socket where you want.

nad33m

you could be better of paying virgin media extra for the 50mb service. or ask them if the will put another seperate cable in. Virgin media does not use the BT infostructure so you could use that with an ASDL connection ie sky or bt etc

steveE2

nad33m wrote: »

you could be better of paying virgin media extra for the 50mb service. or ask them if the will put another seperate cable in. Virgin media does not use the BT infostructure so you could use that with an ASDL connection ie sky or bt etc

You cannot have any type of ADSL Broadband on a virgin media cable it's Virgin Media only.

nad33m

steveE2 wrote: »

You cannot have any type of ADSL Broadband on a virgin media cable it's Virgin Media only.

what i was trying to say was he could get a land line from bt or sky, and let the other flatmates keep the virgin cable, sorry for the confusing wording.

sky is going to cost you £22.50 a month and BT about £40 a month for unlimited broadband.

spike7451

Openreach can fit a 77a junction box before the master socket & use one of the existing spare pairs in the cable to run the second line.
nad33m is assuming that the OP has VM cable in their area however it sounds like the OP is on VM National as VM Cable broadband comes over the same line as the TV,the Coaxial cable,and not the phone cable.

Gordon_Hose

Is your broadband Cable (fibre optic) or ADSL over a virgin phone line?

Winema

The broadband is over the phone line and not cable as we do not have cable in this area - also Virgin Media won't allow two broadband connections on the same address. I've already asked this. I am going with Orange Broadband and this connection will be purely used for Gaming and nothing else and general browsing will be done over Virgin Media.

Gordon_Hose

If you're going with Orange you can't use an extension off the virgin junction box.

You'd need to get a whole new line installed. Ask your Dad, he's a BT Engineer.

Winema

Gordon_Hose wrote: »

If you're going with Orange you can't use an extension off the virgin junction box.

You'd need to get a whole new line installed. Ask your Dad, he's a BT Engineer.

I am aware of this, and will be having a brand new line installed by Orange for £70. Virgin Media won't run two broadband connections to the same household even though they're on separate phonelines.

I also believe I did state in my OP "I've come to the decision to have a completely separate phone line installed into my bedroom which would not be an extension of the pre-existing phone line."

Gordon_Hose

That has always been the case.