Virgin Users In Here

happy_2008 · 27 Sep 2011 at 13:33

Hi all,
Having recently had my virgin installed i need to think of a way to run the cables along the skirting board/floor so that they are out of the way. There are 2 cables to run along the floor (Fibre internet & fibre tv) so i wonder how all you guys hide your cabling?

I have managed to find this some self adhesive clamps but they dont seem big enough to hold the 2 virgin cables

PistolPete · 27 Sep 2011 at 14:59

Use 2 clamps, slightly offset. Should keep the cables fairly close together and neat.

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happy_2008 · 27 Sep 2011 at 15:06

What are you using then?

KIA · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:09

FYI you don't have "fibre" Internet and TV.

PhillyDee · 27 Sep 2011 at 18:13

Under the floorboards? Outside the building? Across the top of the skirting boards? Mine is underneath the carpet inbetween the carpet gripper and the wall.

Peace · 28 Sep 2011 at 18:27

D-Line trunking

Embed · 28 Sep 2011 at 18:44

8mm cable clips

Nymins · 28 Sep 2011 at 19:37

fluff said:
FYI you don't have "fibre" Internet and TV.

Think this pedanticness as run its course tbh.

People can call it what they want, who really cares?

Gaz1988 · 28 Sep 2011 at 22:00

i've got mines running through 8mm trunking which i've pinned above the skirting board! looks nice enough

Lunatic Dreyfus · 28 Sep 2011 at 22:11

The cables are tough old things to be sure and don't take kindly to being manhandled. I'm thankful my TV unit is pretty much next door to the cable sockets.

Ryan111 · 28 Sep 2011 at 22:18

Could you not use one cable and then a splitter?
If there are two cables running along side each other, why have they been split before they are at their correct place?

KIA · 28 Sep 2011 at 23:28

Nymins said:
Think this pedanticness as run its course tbh.

It's a marketing term abused by companies and as a result people such as the OP genuinely believe they have a pure fibre service.

I'm going going to start calling my P4 a Core i7. There's a major difference between the two.

happy_2008 · 30 Sep 2011 at 09:42

What do you guys use to cut the virgin cable? Want to make the internet one shorter and only pull the TV one across the room

Al Vallario · 30 Sep 2011 at 10:31

Efour · 30 Sep 2011 at 11:56

I had dealings with a VM salesman over the phone that insisted that when i upgraded form 30 to 50 mbit i would have to have new FIBRE OPTIC cables run into my house alongside my old coax.... I got him to repeat it to me then I started laughing. For £5 a month extra i said i would welcome FTTP. VM Guy didnt have a clue... I think its shocking how poorly trained their staff are and utterly misleading the public.