Virgin setup additional superhub

Purpleozzie

Purpleozzie

Purpleozzie

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Hi Guys,

Moved into new house only to find that there's something in the walls blocking the wireless signals..

The existing setup was a Virgin Superhub and TiVo box in the corner of the downstairs living room.. This meant that all of downstairs got good wifi as it's open plan but upstairs the wifi was extremely intermittent.

So I used a second router and stuck it in an upstairs bedroom connected through home plugs..

This gave Wifi to 2 of the bedrooms upstairs but still poor internet to the Master Bedroom and smallest bedroom.

Outside the house where the broadband cable comes off the road there is a splitter which sends one RG6 wire to the living room and the other goes above the garage but has been cut just before reaching the window of the Master Bedroom.

So my question is this: If I took the cut wire off and replaced with a new RG6, fed it into the master bedroom could I then connect a spare superhub I have to it and get wifi in the master bedroom. Also, does this mean I can relocate the TiVo box upstairs?

Finally, if I was to somehow get my hands on a spare tivo box could I attach this and create a multi room experience without paying an additional £7.50 a month to Virgin

Hope this makes sense..
 
Thanks for all your replies..

I've decided that the best option would be to relocate the TIVO box upstairs, so to do this I need to run a RG59 cable from outside the house up the side of the garage and through into the master bedroom, there I will split the cable and have one go to the superhub and one go to the TIVO box.. The original cable that ran to the living room I can then attach a router to act as an access point so that the Wifi downstairs isn't affected..

How does this sound? and also not quite sure what is goig on with the wiring outside the house..

https://imgur.com/FbhSohR

The Black wire is the cable from the street which then connects to the top grey cable which heads off to the living room where it's connected to the superhub and TIVO. The black cable appears to have a thinner cable attached to it which has been split and connected to the other grey cable which goes into a splitter, on one end with a white wire that isn't connected to anything and the other end shoots up to the attic and not sure where it goes after that..

All very confusing..
 
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