Virgin cabling wall box query

[Hedobot]

Hi folks

I have 3 wall boxes in the house of which I'm only using one.

As I'm having some building work done I want to move the virgin TiVo and broadband router into another room.

However the brown box on the outside wall is connected to the other wall box which I'm not using. So can I just unplug the one I don't want from the splitter thing in the outside wall box and connect up the box I want to use? It's in the outside box and looks like it can just be swapped over on the splitter? Or will this trigger some issUe with virgin and i will lose everything?

Any thoughts greatfully reveived.

Cheers

Do

Edited by Hedobot on Sunday 23 July 20:04

[anonymous-user]

I reckon it will be Ok

I had Virgin removed last year & removed the cables while tidying up. I kept the splitters.

When the new BB was rubbish I rejoined Virgin & opted for the self install to save £50

Just hooked it all up again & my 100mbps BB is working just fine @110mbps !

I'd give it a go, could always report a fault if it goes pearshaped

[Hedobot]

Thanks for the reply Jimboka

Yes I agree that its worth a punt.

I think it's the fear of having to call their "customer services" should anything go wrong that had me risk averse

Just to clarify, did you hook up the splitter in the "brown outside wall box" when you did the self install?

Cheers

DB

Edited by Hedobot on Sunday 23 July 23:00

[anonymous-user]

Hedobot said:

Thanks for the reply Jimboka

Yes I agree that its worth a punt.

I think it's the fear of having to call their "customer services" should anything go wrong that had me risk averse

Just to clarify, did you hook up the splitter in the "brown outside wall box" when you did the self install?

Cheers

DB

Edited by Hedobot on Sunday 23 July 23:00

I did yes
I had a neighbours as a reference! But just connected the splitter in the brown wall box , run the cable straight through the wall to be BB & it was fine first time..

[Hedobot]

Just tried it and it didnt work. The termination looked a bit grubby but it was to no avail.

Thanks for the help

Cheers

[t2007p]

If you post me a picture up I can probs help or if you are local (Sussex) to me more than happy to pop round and sort it for you.

[Hedobot]

Hi t2007p

Unfortunately im in Berkshire but appreciate the offer

The box i'm trying to connect to has "NTL" on it and im wondering if it is too old? It must be around 10 years old i reckon.

I have left the "Omnibox" connected to the "NTL" wall socket but im not sure what options are left. I thought it was a 50/50 as to whether it would work.

Cheers

DB