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Help with broadband/TV installation

  • 31-10-2019 11:22am
    #1
    Chuchu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 344 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Trying to get a decent answer on this and have spend to long on hold to various companies so turning to boards.

    I recently moved back into my house which previously has been wired for Virgin broadband and then I was with vodafone.

    The builders have left a standard looking coaxial cable sticking out of the wall. No socket or anything.

    Sky installation inform me that they can't use that (it was upc/virgin/horizon installed way back when) so they need to come in from lamppost.

    Vodafone was working before the build was done. I'm still with these as I thought that I could just plug my stuff back in. Now I can't but I'm also not sure how they came in as I thought they'd come from lamppost as well.

    But i think the only cable into my house currently is from Horizon/Virgin who came in through a different cable to the rest.

    My questions are:

    1: Would it just be easiest to activate the virgin media connection again?

    2: Is it worth it getting a cable connected to the telegraph post when i already have this virgin media one coming in through the wall?

    3: How did vodafone get their signal into the house and could they repeat this?


Comments

  • #2
    tsue921i8wljb3
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,017 ✭✭✭tsue921i8wljb3


    1) That would probably be simplest as the cable is in place.

    2) It may be worth it if you value competition and the ability to switch service in order to save yourself money.

    3) That depends on what service you had. Vodafone would sell three types

    i) Mobile broadband through wireless. No cable involved though probably the poorest option in terms of service.

    ii) Broadband through the copper phone line. The most common currently and most likely what you had.

    iii) FTTH. Broadband through a fibre optic cable in which a new cable is brought into your home usually by drilling an exterior wall. Limited availability so may or may not be available to you.


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