Virgin media broadband cable

knightstyle

We had a virgin line installed, very neat narrow cut in the tarmac driveway. New box by the front door and a cable run outside to where the TV is.   We have TV, Fast BB and a landline number but it isvia the modem so if the power goes we loose the house phone.
Must say it went well and like not having an aerial, sat dish etc.

prowla

Virgin, Openreach, and Cityfibre are completely different providers and run different cables to your house; neither depends on the other and neither precludes the other.

Each installation needs to run a cable into your house and that may include a small box or cover on the outside and a wall socket on the inside.

I currently have both Cityfibre (ZEN) and Virgin BB to my house; they run over completely different cables to the house and plug in to different routers and neither network nor provider knows about the other.

The only issue would be if you wanted the connections to come into the house at the same point so they'd have to remove the outgoing provider's cables & sockets (in my case they come into different rooms on opposite sides of the front door).

I don't have a landline phone, as it seemed all I was having it for was to provide a mechanism for cold callers to ring.

FreeBear

CaptainWales said:

Having looked into this further it says that the have to install a box on the wall outside (which is fine) and a box indoors on the wall (not fine as just decorated the place and also dont have a double plud nearby which they need).
Do any providers just do standard phone line broadband anymore? 

When Virgin installed their boxes here, one went on the outside wall fairly close to where the cable popped up out of the ground. The internal box was positioned where I wanted it (in the hallway) and they ran quite a long cable between the two. Also provided me with ~10m of cable to use inside so that I could position the modem/router in a convenient location.

JSmithy45AD

darleydave said:

I left Virgin 4 years ago and joined BT. Despite both companies saying there would be no problem retaining my existing landline no I had to have a completely new one with all that entails of notifying all contacts, doctors dentists hospitals utility providers etc it was 3 months disruption. I have just signed up to go back to Virgin on the promise that the phone no will be transferred. I now have an email from them giving me a new number I spoke to an advisor who said that the new number is temporary and that on the day my transfer to them is completed I will get my existing number back. Based on previous experience I m very wary, has anyone transferred from BT to Virgin and was your phone no retained?

I transferred to Virgin BB earlier this year from Sky and took the number with us, no issues. VM also notified Sky which neatly ended my contract with them (due to the recent mid-contract price rise) on the same day it switched over. Couldn't have been smoother.

JSmithy45AD

CaptainWales said:

Having looked into this further it says that the have to install a box on the wall outside (which is fine) and a box indoors on the wall (not fine as just decorated the place and also dont have a double plud nearby which they need).
Do any providers just do standard phone line broadband anymore? 

I moved to VM BB only earlier this year. In our case, next door had a VM termination box (the brown one) on the properties edge so they patched us into that and put our own brown box on the outside. They drill through the external wall and put in a small white connection box. There is no power lead to this box so need for a nearby plug socket. A (very stiff) white cable was then ran to the back of the living room and the VM router placed where the Sky router was. Only one socket is required unless you've taken VM TV as well so you'll have the TV box plug to deal with as well.

I've actually freed up one plug socket as the FTTP socket and the Sky router needed their own sockets.