OK, I'm just about to order the virgin cable.
I had a thought though. I know it's coax from the switch to your house but how do they get it there? Will they dig up the drive and/or garden to do it?
Previous experiences appreciated. ta.
they pull the copper out of the existing cable and then stuff a new glass one in.
now I know that's not true stoner because my bandwidth is wider with fibre so it won't fit down the existing cable.
It's all wifi now
shoehorn, innit.
@Samurai
They will put a shallow trench in to get the cable from the road to your house or sometimes even overland using an armoured cable. Usually wherever has the point of least resistance.
might they mole it???
Thanks Jamie. So under the garden I expect rather than the drive, that's fine by me.
now I know that's not true stoner because my bandwidth is wider with fibre so it won't fit down the existing cable.
Ha ha! Stoner thinks he's so clever but he's not.
The new broadband is ten times wider than the last one, the cable will need to be penis width!!!
It's all ordered now anyway, ten megabubbles, high dentures and re-rewind here we come.
I'm sure bandwidth doesn't correlate to physical cable diameter.
Or is this a troll?
Actually the higher bandwidth stuff has a much smaller core carrying the signal, for long haul applications the core is about 8 microns.
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Dunno what virgin use though.
Brawdband...
[i]Or is this a troll? [/i]
Partly. The fibre doesn't come right into your house. It's fibre down the road and there are switches at regular intervals that convert the signal to electronic form, from that point onwards it's sent down a coaxial cable which is about the same width as your normal TV aerial cable. Stoner was just being flippant as was I.
The fibre doesn't come right into your house. It's fibre down the road and there are switches at regular intervals that convert the signal to electronic form, from that point onwards it's sent down a coaxial cable which is about the same width as your normal TV aerial cable. Stoner was just being flippant as was I.
Damn those BT adds with the beam of light landing in the house.......had me believin'
sue them
You've ordered Virgin, they might not be supplying it via their fibre/cable network, could be reselling BT's fibre broadband. This will mean nothing will get dug up, fibre to a local BT cab then the last hop via your existing copper phone line. New build houses and flats can have fibre right to the house.
By the way, everyone is a reseller. I am helping to install the new network provided by Openreach, then anyone can sell it. BT Retail is a reseller and they've called it BT Infinity.
If you're in a cabled up area it's fibre to the cabinet (and it's always 8-9 micron core singlemode fibre in these applications) and coax to the set top box. In my case it's under my front lawn from the access point in the street.
If you're not in a cabled area then, as spooky says, Virgin are reselling the local loop just like TalkTalk etc. No particular benefit to having Virgin in this case.
BT Infinity is their FTTx product (FTTx is Fibre To The X = where X=wherever they can get the fibre). Could be fibre right to your house, or fibre to the local street cabinet. Looking forward a couple of years, you'll be looking at streaming SuperHD 3D video over the net, which requires mega bandwidth.
i thought this was about Bran flakes and pooing 🙁
They'll be round on the 30th and reckon it'll take them no more than two hours which does lend weight to the delivery over the BT line suggestion.
If it's a BT line, then it should be much quicker than 2 hours, so it could be the full cable service. Pop your postcode into the box on the Virgin Media website to see what services you get.
The fitters weren't as neat as they could have been when they did mine a few years ago. Keep an eye and tell them how you want the cables routed.
We're in a cabled area, so there are big, green, graffitied cabinets, which make alarming fan-noises when it's hot, on random street corners. There's a small 3" square 'manhole cover' on the pavement next to the property line.
The Virgin Delivery Men will some and run a cable from your property line to wherever you want the connection in your house. Sometimes they dig a shallow trench down the side of your garden, sometimes they cable-tie armoured cable to a fence. As above, they take the path of least resistance.
We got them to use the existing hole in the wall where our TV aerial cable went in, as we'll never use that anyway and it saved getting yet another hole drilled through the house wall.
Every time we've had anything done, the guys who come have been really good and are generally happy to put things where you want them.