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!!!
2009/10/7 Rob Beard <[email protected]> > dan attwood wrote: > >> > >> I was thinking of how best to get this done when it occurred to me > >> that when i get the virgin man to drill a whole to install the > >> virgin services (the internet upstairs, the tv box downstairs) the > >> most logical solution is that i ask him very nicely to drill > >> another two holes and at the same time run an ethernet wire > >> through those. So one ethernet clippy thing is upstairs and the > >> other is downstairs. In the living room. Then when i want to watch > >> something all i have to do is make sure its connected to my pc > >> upstairs and im done. No wire, no hassle. > >> > >> > > When I had my virgin installed I just asked him nicely to make the hole > > a little bit bigger and then taped the cat5 to the fibre and we ran both > > cables at the same time. > > dan > > > > > Guess it's not much hassle for them. I wasn't sure if they'd be okay, > but then I opted for a self install option myself (I was too impatient > to wait for an engineer install). > > It's coax by the way not fibre. AFAIK the fibre ends at the street > cabinet and then it's coax from there to the premises. > > There maybe an issue of putting the plugs on the network cable. It's > not too hard to do and you can get a networking kit for about £25 from > maplins which includes plugs, about 50 metres of CAT5 cable and a crimp > tool although maybe the Virgin engineer might be able to supply CAT5 > cable and crimp the plugs ready for you. > > Rob > > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- Regards Javad
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