Hello lads, only just found you lot, great site with some superb info. got my 500c yesterday and up n running within the hour with the great DK 1.1 image loaded.
At the moment ive just chucked the 500c in place of my virgin stb and it's all working great.
The set up in the house used to be that i had the virgin stb split thru a one4all integrated splitter/booster into 4 rooms in the house which worked well but of course everyone had to watch the same channel that the stb was outputting.
My plan now is to stick a 500c in every room as they are cheap enough to do so and i'm after a bit of help on this. Rather than split the output of a stb like before i gues i want to split the signal at the point where the virgin feed comes into the house.
I also have virgin broadband which is currently split from the feed, so i have 1 cable to the stb and 1 cable to the cable modem.
My question is - what would be the best way to go about splitting the signal to the other rooms? Ive tried running the cable feed (after the split for bb/tv) into my current splitter/booster, but cant get any signal to the 500c in any of the rooms.
Have had a read around and think i'll prob be best off getting rid of the current booster and getting a konig booster to boost the feed before using a konig (or qamtex as is used already for bb/tv) splitter.
Would i be okay to leave the splitter as is for the bb/tv and then from the tv feed, connect the konig booster inline and then split to the 4 rooms? i'd prob do it that way as it keeps the bb connection out of the way so to speak. Would all of this be feasable or does anyone see any probs?
And one final question - if i cancel my virgin tv sub altogether and keep the bb, will i still get the signal so that i can watch the tv on the 500c's?
Cheers
At the moment ive just chucked the 500c in place of my virgin stb and it's all working great.
The set up in the house used to be that i had the virgin stb split thru a one4all integrated splitter/booster into 4 rooms in the house which worked well but of course everyone had to watch the same channel that the stb was outputting.
My plan now is to stick a 500c in every room as they are cheap enough to do so and i'm after a bit of help on this. Rather than split the output of a stb like before i gues i want to split the signal at the point where the virgin feed comes into the house.
I also have virgin broadband which is currently split from the feed, so i have 1 cable to the stb and 1 cable to the cable modem.
My question is - what would be the best way to go about splitting the signal to the other rooms? Ive tried running the cable feed (after the split for bb/tv) into my current splitter/booster, but cant get any signal to the 500c in any of the rooms.
Have had a read around and think i'll prob be best off getting rid of the current booster and getting a konig booster to boost the feed before using a konig (or qamtex as is used already for bb/tv) splitter.
Would i be okay to leave the splitter as is for the bb/tv and then from the tv feed, connect the konig booster inline and then split to the 4 rooms? i'd prob do it that way as it keeps the bb connection out of the way so to speak. Would all of this be feasable or does anyone see any probs?
And one final question - if i cancel my virgin tv sub altogether and keep the bb, will i still get the signal so that i can watch the tv on the 500c's?
Cheers
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