Sliced through cable leading to Virgin Media satellite dish

la531983

FreeBear said:

I had been wanting to move the point where my Virgin cable went through the wall. Gave the cable a bit of a tug to see if it would pass through the hole complete with the connector. It didn't. But in trying, I did some damage to the cable internals and it would make intermittent connection. Got through to Virgin (said nothing about what I was doing), and they sent out an engineer a few days later to replace the cable. Got him to move where the cable came through the wall (I drilled a new hole for him). No charge.

None of which is relevant here as it wasn't a Virgin cable. 

scoot65

Golactico said:

I was doing a good turn for a house-bound elderly neighbour by trimming her hedge, and I managed to slice through a cable coming out of the brown Virgin Media box attached to the outside wall. Following the path of the cable, it's one that goes from the brown box to a satellite dish. I was relieved that she can still access all of her TV channels and that her broadband and landline are still working, so I am assuming that the satellite dish is just old redundant kit and I 'got lucky' with the cable that I sliced. I presume that the other still intact cables going into the brown box are the ones that carry her broadband service? We are in an area that is well connected for Virgin Media, so my hopeful logic says that there would be no need for a sat dish?

I don't want to just assume everything is OK though, as I want to do the right thing by my neighbour. 

Good for you that you want want to make sure all's well for your elderly neighbour. It's good to see!!