Malcolm Smith wrote: >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. > >
Maplin does adaptors. http://www.maplin.co.uk/Search.aspx?menuno=11741&FromMenu=y&doy=15m8&MenuName=Modulators%20/%20Transmitters > > > >>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.
