similar connection/connector like Virgin media ?

mustiuc

Hi all,

I have a curiosity and don't know exactly how to search it online/google it to find the answer.
I only had broadband with Sky and Virgin media. I know for a fact Sky uses RJ45 connector from "wall/box" to the hub/router. Virgin media instead, uses coax cable to link the wall to router. That means, If I don't want an engineer in my house to incur installation fees every time I change provider, logically whoever uses coax/RJ45 connectors should work/swap without any extra fees, right?
So my question to those who had experience with other internet providers, what kind of connectors/connections they use?
To be more explicit, is any other provider using coax cable to their router/hub same as Virgin?

Thanks in advance.

Neil_Jones

The cable from phone socket to the router will be an RJ11, not an RJ45.

Mister_G

mustiuc said:

To be more explicit, is any other provider using coax cable to their router/hub same as Virgin?

Thanks in advance.

No, only Virgin use coax cable.

If you have a FTTP service then that is a RJ45 on the ONT.

JJ_Egan

As above

ADSL  or Fibre to the cabinet  is from pole  to the BT master socket  then RJ45 to router  .

Full Fibre to the premises  FTTP  is via an Optical cable to an ONT box then RJ45 to router .

mustiuc

Thanks for all answers.
I checked around the house and I have only virgin ont boxes(upstairs/downstairs) . So when I decide to swap to someone else there will be installation costs anyways and  a new ont box from BT. Good to now if is worth it or not.
Thanks again 

Mister_G

JJ_Egan said:

As above

ADSL  or Fibre to the cabinet  is from pole  to the BT master socket  then RJ45 to router  .

Actually RJ11 not RJ45 to the router, as per Neil Jones' post above.

JJ_Egan

I always mix those two up .

Renamed the little one and the big one .

littleboo

Assuming you only have "two" providers available (Virgin and the Openreach  based services from BT/Sky/TT etc), then if you get an Openreach line installed, you will be able to swap between all of those providers. The only caveat being that if its Openreach FTTP (full fibre), then some of the retailers have been slow to offer services over FTTP, although they are starting to catch up.

mustiuc

yep I thought so. At the moment I only have Virgin ONT boxes inside the house - so either continue as a customer and "pray" for deals or get an engineer to install an Openreach box and have access to other providers when the current one is getting greedy.
Thanks for all reply's.

iniltous

It’s unlikely you have a Virgin Media ONT ( optical network termination ) as the majority of VM isn’t optical into the house, it’s more likely to be whatever their coax termination point is called, even if you are in a VM  relatively rare ‘project lightning’ area, AFAIK the FTTP is converted before the customer termination point so even in their non coax areas it’s still not an ONT 

matelodave

mustiuc said:

yep I thought so. At the moment I only have Virgin ONT boxes inside the house - so either continue as a customer and "pray" for deals or get an engineer to install an Openreach box and have access to other providers when the current one is getting greedy.
Thanks for all reply's.

You  cant ask OpenReach to supply you a line "just in case". Lines are supplied and provisioned against specfic orders from an ISP.  OpenrReach is the network provider to most ISP's and not an ISP