Virgin\UPC wall socket

Gadgetman496 · 03-10-2016 8:18am #1

My Virgin\UPC wall boxes have two taps, one used and one with a plastic cover on it.

I want to move my router from one room to another. The room I want to move the router to already has a TV connected to the wall socket. Can I use the second tap on the wall socket to connect my router or will I need some sort of splitter and fly lead setup?

Cuddlesworth · 03-10-2016 8:35am

underneath the box is a dual tap. It usually has a frequency splitter for a radio or at least it did in the past. You can replace it with a normal dual tap and then use both.

Gadgetman496 · 03-10-2016 10:03am

Cuddlesworth wrote: »

underneath the box is a dual tap. It usually has a frequency splitter for a radio or at least it did in the past. You can replace it with a normal dual tap and then use both.

If that is the case? I'd imagine UPC used those crimp connections and I wouldn't have either the fittings of the crimping tools to replace that. Maybe I could get some sort of splitter in Maplin that would allow me to split it at the cable end that connects to the TV?

ED E · 03-10-2016 10:17am

I would suspect the larger currys/HN would stock a straight co-ax splitter. Worth a look/call.

Gadgetman496 · 03-10-2016 10:22am

ED E wrote: »

I would suspect the larger currys/HN would stock a straight co-ax splitter. Worth a look/call.

What about the fly lead for the router though? It has those screw type coax connectors as opposed to the normal push in ones, but the TV has the push in type. Can you get a splitter with that mix of connector types?

Cuddlesworth · 03-10-2016 11:50am

Gadgetman496 wrote: »

If that is the case? I'd imagine UPC used those crimp connections and I wouldn't have either the fittings of the crimping tools to replace that. Maybe I could get some sort of splitter in Maplin that would allow me to split it at the cable end that connects to the TV?

Its a cable terminated with a F Connector screwed into a passive 2 way F connector splitter that has a caveat.

Take off the plastic box, buy a new splitter, remove the old one and put in the new one. Drop a coaxial to F connector adapter for the TV.

Gadgetman496 · 06-10-2016 11:32am

Ok, slight change in plan.

Virgin\UPC have a splitter connected to the wall box in the sitting-room with one connection to the sitting-room TV and the other goes all the way out to an extension at the back of the house and it's in the extension I want to place the router.

In the extension there is no wall box, simply one coax cable connected to a Virgin\UPC TV box directly, with a fly lead from the TV box to the TV.

The main coax feed has a male coax plug connected to it.

Question:

Can I use "This Kit" to connect both the TV and Router to the feed cable in the extension?

Is there anything special about that kit splitter that would not allow the spliting of TV and Broadband?

Virgin\UPC wall socket

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