It won't work connecting the virgin cable direcly to a tv. Your tv is scanning for freeview frequencies. Virgin works on different frequencies. Get a hold of a H2H box at £65, set the correcr 'netid' for your area and see what results you get. If none, go out to the green box in the street and recconect your home with an F-plug. [emoji2]I'm trying to determine if my cable is live, and tried connecting it to a tv with a 'F-Connector Socket to RF Coax Aerial Male Adapter' and scanning, but nothing has come up. Does this mean the line is dead or is it not possible to test this way?
Thanks
Saw a openreach guy in town yesterday and I was just about to go and have a nosy at the green box layout.It won't work connecting the virgin cable direcly to a tv. Your tv is scanning for freeview frequencies. Virgin works on different frequencies. Get a hold of a H2H box at £65, set the correcr 'netid' for your area and see what results you get. If none, go out to the green box in the street and recconect your home with an F-plug. [emoji2]
Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
Surely the router would come on but flash on the rx/tx phase if there was no account at the property ?
You wont get internet unless you have a paid up account with them
It can work, there is a difference between the Ariel/Terrestrial tuners and the Cable tuners that are built into TVs.It won't work connecting the virgin cable direcly to a tv. Your tv is scanning for freeview frequencies. Virgin works on different frequencies. Get a hold of a H2H box at £65, set the correcr 'netid' for your area and see what results you get. If none, go out to the green box in the street and recconect your home with an F-plug. [emoji2]
Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
It won't work connecting the virgin cable direcly to a tv. Your tv is scanning for freeview frequencies. Virgin works on different frequencies. Get a hold of a H2H box at £65, set the correcr 'netid' for your area and see what results you get. If none, go out to the green box in the street and recconect your home with an F-plug. [emoji2]
Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk
It can work, there is a difference between the Ariel/Terrestrial tuners and the Cable tuners that are built into TVs.
Literally every TV has a DVB-T/2 tuner since Freeview is pretty much in every TV
Only some TVs have DVB-C for cable purposes, but they still do exist.
A friends Samsung Smart TV has all 3 tuners, (DVB-T2, DVB-S, DVB-C), though I never tried connecting VM into it.
Never saw a tv with cable tuner built in. Suppose it has a CA card slot too to decrypt?It can work, there is a difference between the Ariel/Terrestrial tuners and the Cable tuners that are built into TVs.
Literally every TV has a DVB-T/2 tuner since Freeview is pretty much in every TV
Only some TVs have DVB-C for cable purposes, but they still do exist.
A friends Samsung Smart TV has all 3 tuners, (DVB-T2, DVB-S, DVB-C), though I never tried connecting VM into it.
Saw a openreach guy in town yesterday and I was just about to go and have a nosy at the green box layout.
Just as i got there he shut the box up :(
Never saw a tv with cable tuner built in. Suppose it has a CA card slot too to decrypt
Haha, BT have separate boxes to virmin that's hilarious. I can see all the neighbours wondering why the leckies gone off!Yeah no point in looking at an openreach man as they only work on BT cabs. They're completely different. The Virmin street cab is in essence a coax amplifier accompanied with one big splitter with taps for different power levels. The higher taps are generally used for customers that are the furthest away from the street cab. Cables are secured with f-connectors to the taps and usually have tags attached with the door number of the property that particular cable is connected to. Best way to test if your cable is live is to connect an old virmin receiver to the cable and see what it does. If it shows an error message like LD:20 then it's dead or disconnected from the cab. If it boots up and shows a channel number on the front then it's live and good to use for cs.
Never saw a tv with cable tuner built in. Suppose it has a CA card slot too to decrypt?
Going in to an openreach guys box won't get you any further with your virgin tv conquest mate [emoji23]
Sent from my SM-G920F using Tapatalk