Moving my Virgin Media Router across the room

**Scottio200** · 25th January 2015

Hi All

Just wondering if anyone has any experience with this, basically in my living room we have 2 alcoves with a fireplace in the chimney breast (hehe breast)

One the left is my TV and a VM Tivo box and on the right is the Superhub 2 connected to an airport extreme giving the wireless, I also have a Philips Hue lighting system plugged into this and a power line adaptor

Now what I am wanting to do is move all the internet stuff (superhub, ect) to the left side alcove as it doesn't look very nice having all those cables coming off a coffee table, plus if anyone spills something on the table, my entire network could go down!

From what I can see, when the virgin was installed the coax cable comes into the front of the house, through the bedroom, into the living room at the point where the internet stuff is, there appears to be a splitter of some sort screwed onto the skirting board and the cable is split 2 ways. One goes into the superhub and the other just seems to go into the floor. The cable then comes out of the floor next to the left alcove (where the TV stuff is) and then into the TiVo box.

Is this going to be as easy as moving cutting the cable next to the tv stuff and moving the splitter across to the other side, then getting a female/female connector for where the splitter currently is?

Or is it going to be more of a chore to do?
If so I believe I can get virgin to do it for �99, however I'm not going to pay them �99 if it just involves the above!

Many Thanks

Scottio

**lagigolo** · 25th January 2015

From what i can make out from your post, cable comes in to a splitter. I would remove the splitter and just add a straight through joining connector (a f type female to female connector)

Where the feed comes out to your tivo, put the splitter on this end, one cable will now go to your tivo, one will go to your superhub. Shouldn't need to cut anything, you will need an extra piece of cable about 1m with plugs on either end.

**Scottio200** · 25th January 2015

Would this and this do the trick?

I know i can probably get the cable cheaper elsewhere but just wanted to check I'm on the right track.

My internet connection is 152mb if that makes any difference?

Thanks

Scottio

**lagigolo** · 25th January 2015

No.

You want this and this

The first bit will join the cables where your removing the splitter. At the other end you put the splitter on the cable that goes to your tivo, one cable from the splitter will go into your tivo, the other one will go to your modem/superhub.

You only need one joiner, but the pack i have shown you is for 10, its just for reference.

Heres a single here

**Rick Sanchez** · 25th January 2015

I'm shortening mine tomorrow by hand which could be disastrous!

**Teajunkie** · 25th January 2015

You can buy the f connectors and joiners in b&q a pack of 10 is �2.
i believe the splitter has a filter in it or it used to when it was telewest which was years ago.