Dense question how does virgin media get ino my house?

pleasedelete

Or rather how would it. They have cabled(?) my road. They now mail me at least weekly. I don't have sky and never have had. I have bt infinity broadband.

My house is up a short drive but it it block paved (totally no soil). At the front of my house is my loo (no electricity) my hall (no electricity) and my dining room (some electricity but not at the front).

My bt phone lines come in at the back (road at back is several hundred feet awAy and not cabled).

How would it work? I know this is probably really dense but I have no idea how it works, what boxes, cables etc there woud be.

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They'd have to dig a channel from the roadside leading up your path and into the house via a hole they'd have to drill in the nearest wall to where you want to site their services. Inside the house, they'd clip the coax cable to your skirting boards in order to reach various rooms if required.
They do a reasonable job of disguising where they have dug and drilled, but you'd have a box on the outside wall where the cable enters the house.

warwicktiger

They keep posting you letters and if you do not throw them away instantly they will take root, and then they are inside your house for ever.

pleasedelete

Ok- thanks So if I dont have a path or anything that could be dug up then they can't put it in?

Can it go into a garage and then how does it get from the box to the tv? All via cables on the skirting boards? What about across doorways- how does that work? Does it need an electric socket? If it is multiroom do cables need to go everywhere?

I have no carpets to put anything under. Can it go under the floorboards?

pleasedelete

warwicktiger wrote: »

They keep posting you letters and if you do not throw them away instantly they will take root, and then they are inside your house for ever.

Haha. Some days I get 2 letters. One by royal mail and one posted through the door.

warwicktiger

Dig up your path, plant land mines, block your letter box, do not let the letters in or you will never be rid of the bearded one.

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pleasedelete wrote: »

So if I dont have a path or anything that could be dug up then they can't put it in?

They wouldn't have recently cabled your area if the possibility of installation was too difficult.
For accurate advice specific to your address, you'd need to get in touch with them direct.

pleasedelete

Moneyineptitude wrote: »

They wouldn't have recently cabled your area if the possibility of installation was too difficult.
For accurate advice specific to your address, you'd need to get in touch with them direct.

My house isn't like the rest of the road who are mostly flats. No-one else has a paved drive as far as I know. I also have steps up at the front and no-one else does. They did the whole area- still loads of damage on the road surfaces.

I will - I just wanted to get a rough idea.

The van sits in the road most days- I think ready to leap out when you leave home and put a leaflet through the door.

warwicktiger

pleasedelete wrote: »

The van sits in the road most days- I think ready to leap out when you leave home and put a leaflet through the door.

Then do what I do, after the proper mail has arrived switch on your motion sensing shredder which is fitted to the letter box. This way the missives from the Bearded one are instantly ready for recycling.

spike7451

The'll be a small box on the footway where they dug the street,from there they run a siamese drop cable up the path,the paviers would be lifted & relaid & the cable put in the green flexi duct.
On the outside wall they would mount a gray box,called an ETB.this is to terminate the external drop & change it over to internal cable.From there a telco cable would be ran to the phone point,either internally,clipped to the skirting board with a stapler,or externally,& a new CTE-5 mounted next to the BT one.
For the TV,a cable would be ran into the house from the ETB & a white box,called an Isolator,mounted on the wall where the cable enters the house & then a Coaxial cable would be ran to where the TV is sited,clipped to the skirting & running up & over the door frames.
The broadband runs over the Coaxial cable so it can either be sited next to the isolator & you then go wireless,or a spur line ran from the ETB to where the PC is in the house by running a cable externally.

HTH

pleasedelete

Thanks for all your help.