Using existing Sky Cable for Virgin TV

tlogic

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I was woundering if I could use the exisiting sky cables around my house for Virigin TV? I was thiniking of disconnecting the wiring from the sky dish and getting the engineer to hook up the cables from the outside. Would this work?
 
I would think they'd be ok as long as they are good quality cables. If not you may have signal issues.
 
I have cut one cable from dish to hook up virgin feed, as sat cable runs behind my skirting boards.
and i have had no issue so far, but dont know if engineer will do it.
 
Virgin dont charge for the engineers to wire the house so no point in doing it yourself, but I do get why you would want to use the original wiring as its all nicely chased into the walls, so the installation engineers will be able to say if its possible, and provided that all the cables from the dish come into the house at the same point I dont see an issue
 
Thanks for the replies much appreciated. My VM install is booked in for the 8th April and I don't really want to be lifting up carpet and floor boards and cutting holes throuh my fitted cupboards just to pull a new cable through. Sky installed the cabling three years ago and I'm hoping vm engineer will be ok with connecting their cable to my existing sky cable. might see if I can try sort this out myself before they get here.
 
I put a spare cable from my loft to where I knew my Virgin incoming feed was going. Once I added a splitter I was then able to distribute the signal from the loft.

I used WF100 around my house and have no issues.

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