i already have a cat5 cable ready to go...the one i was using inside the house. I dont see why this cant installed outside...its a 30 meter crossover cable!!! <br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">2009/10/7 Rob Beard <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rob@esdelle.co.uk">rob@esdelle.co.uk</a>></span><br>
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<div class="im">dan attwood wrote:<br>>><br>>> I was thinking of how best to get this done when it occurred to me<br>>> that when i get the virgin man to drill a whole to install the<br>>> virgin services (the internet upstairs, the tv box downstairs) the<br>
>> most logical solution is that i ask him very nicely to drill<br>>> another two holes and at the same time run an ethernet wire<br>>> through those. So one ethernet clippy thing is upstairs and the<br>
>> other is downstairs. In the living room. Then when i want to watch<br>>> something all i have to do is make sure its connected to my pc<br>>> upstairs and im done. No wire, no hassle.<br>>><br>
>><br>> When I had my virgin installed I just asked him nicely to make the hole<br>> a little bit bigger and then taped the cat5 to the fibre and we ran both<br>> cables at the same time.<br>> dan<br>><br>
><br></div>Guess it's not much hassle for them. I wasn't sure if they'd be okay,<br>but then I opted for a self install option myself (I was too impatient<br>to wait for an engineer install).<br><br>It's coax by the way not fibre. AFAIK the fibre ends at the street<br>
cabinet and then it's coax from there to the premises.<br><br>There maybe an issue of putting the plugs on the network cable. It's<br>not too hard to do and you can get a networking kit for about £25 from<br>maplins which includes plugs, about 50 metres of CAT5 cable and a crimp<br>
tool although maybe the Virgin engineer might be able to supply CAT5<br>cable and crimp the plugs ready for you.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Rob<br></font>
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