piggybacking off a neighobours omni box?

Roxy07

Hi I can't get VM at my address but my neighbour at the front flats can..

Would Virgin be willing to run a cable from their omni box to my flat? obviously there is a pavement it's not flats next to each other would that be a issue?

macman

Are you serious? No, because sharing the service breaches the T&C's.
How exactly would VM recoup their investment if you are not subscribing yourself?

Pincher

In rural areas, they pay to lay their own optical fibre, and share the broadband.

Hotels have Wi-Fi in the lobby and rooms.

So if the building management puts in some Wi-Fi access points around the premises, and gets a business contract, it could work. Per flat, it could even be very cheap. The problem is of course everybody is on the net at night, and you get buffering galore. The police turns up, and search everyone's computer because somebody has been downloading kiddies !!!!!!. And who's hogging the bandwidth with BitTorrent?

terra_ferma

macman wrote: »

Are you serious? No, because sharing the service breaches the T&C's.
How exactly would VM recoup their investment if you are not subscribing yourself?

I didn't read is as the OP wanting the service for free, otherwise he'd be saying he wants to do it himself rather than ask VM to do it.

macman

terra_ferma wrote: »

I didn't read is as the OP wanting the service for free, otherwise he'd be saying he wants to do it himself rather than ask VM to do it.

They want to dig up the public pavement to lay their own cabling?

cookie365

Isn't running a cable from the network to your address the very definition of making cable 'available'?

kwikbreaks

Yes.

The OP can always ask VM to consider providing cable to him as their network is so close but the chances are they won't. Virgin Media are still carrying the £6Bn or so of debts that the various cable operators they've bought out ran up cabling the areas they did and very rarely splash out to extend that network.