I have experience of both the Virgin Media cable broadband and BT Infinity, which my lady has at her home. It is worth explaining the difference to help understand their use.
In both cases the fibre optic cable is fed to a box in the street somewhere near your home. With Virgin, the broadband signal is fed to the house via a coaxial cable with separate phone line. In my case the coaxial cable also supplies my television signal. In the case of the BT Infinity connection, a two core copper cable is fed to the house and carries your telephone and broadband data. The standard installation involves replacing your primary telephone socket at the first point of entry of the BT line into your home. The new face socket has a VDSL outlet to the modem, and a standard telephone outlet. BT provided a Homehub router wired to the modem. Any telephone extensions are fed from the new box and do not require a separate filter. You are then faced with a choice of using wireless or powerline plugs if your desktop is elsewhere. Incidentally, some of the latest powerline plugs include wireless capability. Since I run three WAPs in my own home, on different channels with different SSIDs, they could have been useful. In reality, you can move the new telephone socket to a more convenient point in your home if you have suitable wiring already installed, as most homes should. The installation engineer may baulk at this as they prefer not to use your existing wiring. If anyone wants me to explain the procedure, I will do a follow up. Mike -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --------------------------------------------------------------
