Just moved house and want to wire upstairs to have the modem router and main gaming pc . the virgin box on the wall thingy is downstairs is it just a matter of running cat 5e from the box on the wall to upstairs?
I'm not sure on moving point of entry of Virgin cable but I suspect you can't. If I were you I would run a cat 5e or cat6 cable from downstairs to a gigabit switch upstairs. You then cable into the switch or put a wifi access point there. Or both if you fancy it.
Coaxial cable is what you need. But it isn't the most flexible or easy to hide stuff. You could just turn the Superhub into modem mode, run a flat easily hid Ethernet cable upstairs then have a router of your choice on the end of that.
You can wire ethernet cable from the modem to wherever you want it. But if the coaxial cable from the box on the wall is downstairs then that is where the modem will need to be. Unless you get virgin to install more copper cabling upstairs. Bah beaten to it.
That sounds like a very complicated and expensive solution, when all he really needs to do is run a single Ethernet cable from the Superhub to a switch in his room. Why buy extra hardware when the Superhub is already a router?
That's fine, but there's no indication from phoenixck that he's in any way dissatisfied with the Superhub. As for complexity: Research routers Pick one ranging in price from £30 to £150 Log in to Superhub, switch to modem mode Lose internet connectivity Run wire upstairs Connect up new router Configure new router for internet access Regain internet connectivity Done Compares poorly to: Research switches Buy one ranging in price from £5 to £20 Run wire upstairs Connect up new switch Done Especially given that we're talking about someone who refers to the Superhub as the "Virgin box on the wall thingy," i.e. has little to no networking experience. (Which is fine, we all have our strengths and weaknesses - I can network in my sleep, but never could get my head around the offside rule...) To clarify to OP: If you just want to connect one PC in your room to the Superhub, then yes you can just run a Cat5 cable. If you want to connect more than one PC in your room to the Superhub, you'll need a cheap switch like this one for £13 delivered. You don't need to run co-ax cable, nor do you need a new router unless you find the Superhub isn't doing what you need.
Just moved house, I have the router by the phone socket, an ethernet to a switch upstairs in a cupbiard with a microsever then off that an ethernet to another switch which the computers connect to. Wire was cheap and additional switch was cheap enough
Just to let you know I was referring to the plastic box where the cables come in Gareth not the superhub . However the switch idea isn't actually a bad idea cheers. Will be using the superhub for now bit will be changing eventually.
I suppose the question I should really have asked is do I extend the co ax cable upstairs or run an Ethernet cable upstairs the length is under 150 foot
personally I would run Ethernet, that way, if you have a problem, you haven't changed the cable the engineer originally put in
Hah! Fair enough. I'm still using my BT Home Hub 5 for routing, although I'm using a separate server for DHCP and my old ADSL router for Wi-Fi. I should really replace the HH5, but I'm too darn cheap to spend money on a VDSL router...
Eh, I'd just run homeplugs. Mine are getting close to 100mb easily, without the hassle of running extra cables.
