Virgin TV

[unclestoo]

Hi All,

I've been asked to flood some Cat 5e into a house where the previous builder went bust half way through the job. He had a "unique" way of working in the sense that most of the work has to be redone, including damp proof courses. I'll post pictures of some of the electrics at a later stage!

Anyway I've also been asked to look at the cable TV which has been run as a ring circuit around the house to say 8 or so outlets. Is there a hope in hell that will work or should I run new a single cable from the splitter to each outlet?

thoughts appreciated

 

[luminaire]

I'm not an expert but I think you should run from the splitter to each outlet. No doubt you'll also be installing an amplifier to strengthen the signal.
I'm sure others on here will be able to give you more definitive advice.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Try AVForums - much more specialised expertise there...

 

[flameport]

Anyway I've also been asked to look at the cable TV which has been run as a ring circuit around the house to say 8 or so outlets. Is there a hope in hell that will work or should I run new a single cable from the splitter to each outlet?

No way that it will work as a ring, or connecting one outlet to the next.

Install new cables, one to each outlet, and the other ends to a single point. Use decent cable too, foam core with copper foil and copper wire braid over that. Or to describe it another way, if you can see the core through the wire braid, it is useless.

At the main point, if you want the same signal in each room, you will need an amplifier/splitter (could be all in one device, or 2 separate devices).
Or, the cable TV people could put additional boxes in some/all of the other rooms using the new cables you have installed (fitting the actual boxes will be up to them), this way you can view different cable channels in different rooms.

 

[Chri5]

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I know

I've had Virgin cable for years, a continuous ring or loop in / out radial won't work.

Each cable that you intend to have a Virgin box on needs to be star wired from a central service point. That service point will have a incoming co-ax from Virgin and is then split out on a virgin splitter to each cable and then box that requires service.


Virgin being as they are, the service is best not shipped through the house via tri plates and a logitech TV distribution amp.

However it would be prudent to run a second co-ax to each TV location to provide digital freeview / UHF signals from the roof top aerial, from rooms requiring TV, but not requiring cable.

If you need to save cost and time, 1 cable to each TV location from a central service point and then the options are that the cable is used for either cable TV or UHF via simple connection to either the Virgin splitter or the Freeview amp (which would have to be next to each other).

 

[unclestoo]

I thought it wouldn't. Thought it best to clarify before the walls get plastered!

Good point on the seperate coax for terestrial, I'll run some in.

Cheers for the help guys!

 

[mattylad]

Yes, seperate feed for each outlet, all back to a single amp like a loftbox fed from the Virgin set top box & whatever other AV stuff they have.