Broadband: two properties, one street cable question

FARGO

FARGO

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Hi all,

Probably a daft question but... I live in a house that has been split in to two properties; ground floor and first floor.

The Virgin broadband cable comes off the street, through the front garden and then goes through a T-splitter. From the splitter one cable goes through the wall to my property and the other cable goes through the wall to the other property.

There's currently no-one living in the other property and the internet is fine.

When someone moves in to the other property (and assuming they take a Virgin broadband package), is it likely that my internet connection will suffer? I realise that the connection has already travelled 100s of miles underground through various cables but I am wondering as most properties have a single, dedicated line coming off the street.

Thanks in advance :)
 
Have both properties ever been occupied at the same time? The T connection would make more sense for connecting a single connection to multiple rooms in the same household.

If there's a problem you call Virgin and get them to pull dedicated cables. No point worrying about it ahead of time.
 
FARGO said:
Hi all,

Probably a daft question but... I live in a house that has been split in to two properties; ground floor and first floor.

The Virgin broadband cable comes off the street, through the front garden and then goes through a T-splitter. From the splitter one cable goes through the wall to my property and the other cable goes through the wall to the other property.

There's currently no-one living in the other property and the internet is fine.

When someone moves in to the other property (and assuming they take a Virgin broadband package), is it likely that my internet connection will suffer? I realise that the connection has already travelled 100s of miles underground through various cables but I am wondering as most properties have a single, dedicated line coming off the street.

Thanks in advance :)
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just buy a decent router with guest access - give them wi-fi password to restricted guest account and split the bill

make sure guest account can't access anything dodgy that would end up with you in jail.
 
bremen1874 said:
Have both properties ever been occupied at the same time? The T connection would make more sense for connecting a single connection to multiple rooms in the same household.

If there's a problem you call Virgin and get them to pull dedicated cables. No point worrying about it ahead of time.
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True - I shouldn't worry without knowing what's what! Both properties were inhabited before I moved in but I don't know what was actually being used. Is getting a dedicated cable pulled for each property if needed likely to be a hassle?

Psycho Sonny said:
just buy a decent router with guest access - give them wi-fi password to restricted guest account and split the bill

make sure guest account can't access anything dodgy that would end up with you in jail.
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Interesting idea but I'd rather not go down that road :)
 
FARGO said:
I'll cross my fingers!
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Similar happened to a friend of mine. Moved into a new property which was in a cabled street but no visible tee. House is on a shared drive and they believed it was under the drive somewhere.

Took 8 weeks but they came out and fitted a new tee in the drive.
 
Thanks for the answers guys. I'll cross my fingers and hope for the best - the internet's the only thing that's gone right since the move :D
 
Does each flat have a separate address?

Anyway, splitting a cable connection won't cause any issues (assuming power levels are fine and the people splitting the cable were VM and not a builder with a plan). The thing that gets used up is frequencies on each segment, and that covers hundreds of properties.
 
Short answer: No, you don't need to worry.

The longer version is that each property needs to be registered with Royal Mail, this will push a notification for TV licensing amongst other things and once it's on RM's database, VM will acknowledge it's existence, till then it's invisible. As far as construction goes, it can vary by area, but in general each feed is more than capable of providing service to multiple devices, if it isn't, VM will deal with a re-pull and it will cost the subscribers nothing, they may (though in this case it's unlikely as you are an active customer who has already provided it) require way leave for any land they need to cross.
 
Avalon said:
The longer version is that each property needs to be registered with Royal Mail, this will push a notification for TV licensing amongst other things and once it's on RM's database, VM will acknowledge it's existence, till then it's invisible.
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I used to work with a guy who had this issue by building 2 houses on 1 plot. Getting any services sorted was a nightmare as the new house numbers didn't exist. Took rm a very long time to update too.
 
neil_g said:
I used to work with a guy who had this issue by building 2 houses on 1 plot. Getting any services sorted was a nightmare as the new house numbers didn't exist. Took rm a very long time to update too.
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Yes and no, i’ve had property added in minutes, i’ve also seen it take weeks/months. Generally RM are quick to work when you give them what they need and that’s the key to getting everything else.
 
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