Novice question

[monagans]

I have virmin (2gb/soon to be 10gb) broadband cable to my PC in the upstairs bedroom. I also have virmin tv downstairs on a seperate cable.

I wanted to watch film streams to my HDTV downstairs. I plan to buy a laptop and send signal from upstairs to laptop downstairs. However given the potentail for signal drops, i could move modem downstairs and do the reverse.

Another option did cross my mind. I thought it would be simple enough to buy another modem for downstairs and split this off tv line downstairs. I would only use speed which which i am entitled to.

Would virgin be accomodating with a legitmate personally owned modem and would they support to get connected? Has anyone tried?

If not, is the hack modem the only other way if i wanted to connect two,

Thanks

[ste0ey]

my dad asked vm this last year and they told him he cant have 2 modems at he one address, it can be done though as there people on here with 2 or 3 modems runnin, or you could get yourself a wireless router as for your speeds i think you mean 2m soon to be 10 lol

[MorriSoft]

Originally Posted by monagans

I have virmin (2gb/soon to be 10gb) broadband cable to my PC in the upstairs bedroom. I also have virmin tv downstairs on a seperate cable.

I wanted to watch film streams to my HDTV downstairs. I plan to buy a laptop and send signal from upstairs to laptop downstairs. However given the potentail for signal drops, i could move modem downstairs and do the reverse.

Another option did cross my mind. I thought it would be simple enough to buy another modem for downstairs and split this off tv line downstairs. I would only use speed which which i am entitled to.

Would virgin be accomodating with a legitmate personally owned modem and would they support to get connected? Has anyone tried?

If not, is the hack modem the only other way if i wanted to connect two,

Thanks

You do mean 2meg soon to be 10meg.

Technically, with wireless, HD content will not stream properly due to massive bandwidth requirements. (feel free to check on wiki, I tried to set this up myself streaming HD stuff pc to laptop onto the tv, it failed horribly with buffering issues)

There are options, such as TVersity with which you can pre-buffer streams, but this too failed horribly for me as I could never get it to work.

When using a 100mbit ethernet card in the pc, and connecting to the laptops ethernet port with new, shielded cat5e ethernet cable, i was able to achieve the results I wanted, having baught an xbox360 about a year ago however, I had no need for the streaming, thus no longer have the configuration to guide you through it end to end.

As for the modems, ste0ey is correct, virmin too refused me a second modem, hense the modding began, albeit 8 years after starting my subscription!

You're best getting a decent 100mbit ethernet router (most wireless ones have 100mbit ethernet ports too) and connect them that way, although, if you like a challenge like myself, modding a modem was alot more fun

[toolzkit]

plus if you do fit another modem to your line your signal will degrade

do like morrisoft said get a xbox360 and stream movies from pc to xbox its what I do, but they will not be in hdtv format most popular format is in avi.

[monagans]

Thanks for the info and for my spotting my deliberate mistake!