But this is the Virgin Media specification, so if you have a cable running across your garden or close to a flower bed, you should be careful. Connect the Hub’s new power cable with the blue label to the back of the Hub, and plug the other end into a wall socket. As mentioned above, you’ll get slight insertion loss whenever you plug the coax cable into any device. Simply lay RG6 coax from the Virgin cable main feed entry point to the intended location of the second TiVo.

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I have got the cheaper splitter you mention (4:1 version rather than 2:1) and thought I'd bring it back into use for the V6 box. As you can see from the below, they have a VM wall socket already installed, but this leads off to a three-way splitter. We can however arrange an engineer visit to look into the current setup and resolve the issue for you. Unplug the white connector cable and all other cables from the back of the Hub – make sure you don’t unplug the other end. Ok - is that splitter on the outside of my house (the one where you've suggested I can merely use a barrel connector for the incoming signal to the house) ok to use in the loft rather than purchasing another one?Recently Virgin upgraded it to the V6 Box, which unknown to me, stopped the existing splitter working. I would like to get an additional virgin STB from Virgin, but there is no good way to get cable to the new location.

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The router is the old original Superhub which is up in the office on its own cable and has my desktop PC and Hue hub connected to its ethernet ports. If you feel that signal loss either at the splitter or somewhere else along the line is so great that it’s affecting signal quality, consider replacing the splitter with a distribution amplifier with the appropriate number of output ports. I'd tend to suggest accessing uhd Netflix content via the TV's own app rather than via the V6 though. We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. The signal strength coming down the vigin cable is balanced at the cabinet in the street and possibly using an attenuator on the back of the cable box, when you change the length of cable or add splitters to the cable you alter the signal strength.

So, I need to try to work out how to get inside that box, without destroying it, to find out what kind of splitter is inside. I will be having a second box so the cat 6 matrix won't be how I want to distribute it as I want the second box to be independent of the first.

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I won't bore you with the details but VM recommended I moved the box myself but couldn't tell me what tool was needed. Is it simply as case of finding the main feed and connecting that to a splitter which can take the cables from both the bedrooms and then I can then cancel Multiroom? The cable will be buried in your front garden at a shallow depth, so you need to remember the track of the cable when you are gardening. Yes, you can replace the existing 2 way coax signal splitter for a 3 way splitter, but If not using the feed in the dining room then you can simply use the split that would had facilitated a feed to that room to facilitate one to your bedroom i.You'd need to connect the TiVo's HDMI output to the matrix and then connect the outputs to the TVs or AV receivers in your other rooms. If one of your white cables was for the broadband, in theory if I left the splitter in and replaced one of the white cables with the new isolator cable for my Hub, would that also work? Europe's busiest forums, with independent news and expert reviews, for TVs, Home Cinema, Hi-Fi, Movies, Gaming, Tech and more.