Cables and switching from Virgin to BT TV and t'internet

therightthingtodo_2

:)Be gentle as it's my first time gang.

I'm looking to change from Virgin media to BT for internet and TV (plus a landline I'll never use), but we've had our lounge done up a couple of years ago so my wife (& I of course) have concerns about the new cables.

We live in a terrace house without a TV aerial.

I want the Youview+ box a Infinity broadband. We currently have the Virgin cable coming into a cupboard at the front of the house, then the coax cable going under the floorboards and coming up into another cupboard under the TV into the router. So it's all nice and neat.

We can't pull up the floorboards, and don't want to pin the ethernet cable around the fireplace between those cupboards which are 2.5 metres apart.

So, should I use the bandwidth extender plugs in the cupboard at the entry point to the house for the Wifi. Then is it possible to convert the BT entry cable into coaxial, then back from coax into ethernet to go into the TV? What degradation would there be from two conversions?

Or is there a genius way to run a cable along another underground (like those sewer cameras) and have it pop up in the TV cupboard so signal quality is maintained and so is our lounge?
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AndyPK

just to point out,

I think you need an aeriel with BT TV ?

TadleyBaggie

AndyPK wrote: »

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I think you need an aeriel with BT TV ?

You would be correct, it's basically a Freeview box with the ability to also receive internet streams.

JJ_Egan

BT TV will work with no aerial but receive only the BT TV internet channels .

Where is your BT master socket as that's the starting point not the VM entry ..
Its BT router ethernet to the Youview box then HDMI cable to the TV .

You will use the landline for data transmission .

therightthingtodo_2

So I think my way forward is to use their plug in bandwidth extenders for the wifito youview connection for BT channels, and then get a TV aerial installed which will connect to the underfloor coaxial cable for the Youview box.

Do I need any converters for the coaxial?