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Hello,
I currently have broadband with Virgin Media. A cable goes in through the front wall of the house, and on the inside wall there is a box. A short coaxial cable comes out of it and it goes to the back of the house, concealed under the floor boards.
At the back is my modem / router.
When my contract ends I'd like to switch to Community Fibre, which FWIU use fibre cables all the way to the modem / router.
I'd like to keep the router where it is (there is a strong reason for that, which I won't get into here), but I don't want to lay another cable from the front to the back of the house, because concealing it would be very disruptive and costly (I'd have to lift the laminate and floor boards) and not concealing it would break the style of the house where all other cables are concealed.
So I was wondering if I could reuse the coaxial cable?
Apparently there are fibre to coax converters / adapters, so perhaps I could use get one of those, and then convert coax back to fibre at the router? Maybe the latter wouldn't even be necessary if I use the Super Hub 3 from VM, which has a coax port? Or am I missing something?
Edit: To give you an idea of what kind of speeds I need it to support, I'd probably get 150 Mbps, but would be good to have a passive provision for up to 1 Gbps.
I currently have broadband with Virgin Media. A cable goes in through the front wall of the house, and on the inside wall there is a box. A short coaxial cable comes out of it and it goes to the back of the house, concealed under the floor boards.
At the back is my modem / router.
When my contract ends I'd like to switch to Community Fibre, which FWIU use fibre cables all the way to the modem / router.
I'd like to keep the router where it is (there is a strong reason for that, which I won't get into here), but I don't want to lay another cable from the front to the back of the house, because concealing it would be very disruptive and costly (I'd have to lift the laminate and floor boards) and not concealing it would break the style of the house where all other cables are concealed.
So I was wondering if I could reuse the coaxial cable?
Apparently there are fibre to coax converters / adapters, so perhaps I could use get one of those, and then convert coax back to fibre at the router? Maybe the latter wouldn't even be necessary if I use the Super Hub 3 from VM, which has a coax port? Or am I missing something?
Edit: To give you an idea of what kind of speeds I need it to support, I'd probably get 150 Mbps, but would be good to have a passive provision for up to 1 Gbps.
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