Hi Mike, > If you can, go for cable. It is faster and has fewer > problems with connectivity. If you are more than 1Km from > your nearest exchange, there will be problems with BT. > Virgin is doing BB/TV/phone for £16per month if you take an > £11/month phone package. So a total of £27 per month. They > will install a modem/router when they do the install and I > suspect they will be...obliging...when it comes to the > location of the > phone point. IAC, once past the white box that is the entry > point, you > can add extensions just as with any other phone.
Thanks for the reply. Yes, I am about as far as it's possible to be from my exchange, so the cable from Virgin looks possible. The only problem I foresee is cable access into the house (we had a problem with someone running a cable before under the garden because it's covered with six inches of metal reinforced concrete for L/Rover hardstanding - BT wires come in from overhead, no issue). If it's just a matter of extensions from the white box entry, that's fine. > They won't take the aerial away.... > > AFAIK, the connection can be installed in any room. From the > digibox, there will be a SCART cable to connect appliances. > You can extend up to the limit of the SCART connector. If we have weather like the last couple of days, they won't need too, the aerial will have relocated itself. I suppose it might be useful to have a television with a working SCART connection then. Hmm. > Again AFAIK, Virgin supplies wireless modem/routers. But I > suspect that they will have wired sockets as well. You > should be able to check before you purchase. The wireless > part can be turned off. You will probably have to do the > cabling yourself. OK, I can go back to them about this and the access issue, now I know what to ask for. The people I have so far spoken too are just keen to sell with as many add-ons as possible, and all I really want is socket connections for a computer in a few places and television access in a couple of rooms with just the five channels - although the freeview ones would be nice to add. Regards, Malcolm -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
