Few quick horizon questions lads..

MarkY91

so we have 3 upc boxes in the house, im looking for horizon for my bedroom only. the phone line is in the living room with 1 of the boxes. can i or can i not get the horizon box for my bedroom as it serves as the modem also? the tv in the living room is about 15 years old so HD channels serves no purpose on it.


what are my options? big long ethernet cable to my bedroom and connect it to the horizon box in my room?

colm_mcm

Get another dect cordless phone for downstairs and run tv/phone/broadband through the horizon box upstairs?

MarkY91

colm_mcm wrote: »

Get another dect cordless phone for downstairs and run tv/phone/broadband through the horizon box upstairs?

i dont understand. the upc line we got to plug the modem/phone into is downstairs. im looking ot have horizon upstairs but possibly keep the cordless phones bass downstairs. if you understand? i dont know what to do

colm_mcm

Have you got a UPC cable point in your bedroom?

MarkY91

colm_mcm wrote: »

Have you got a UPC cable point in your bedroom?

yep, ive it coming from the attic

pizzahead77

Might be best asking this in the Talk to UPC forum but I think I've read of people keeping their existing modem while having the Horizon box due to issues with WiFi etc.

MarkY91

pizzahead77 wrote: »

Might be best asking this in the Talk to UPC forum but I think I've read of people keeping their existing modem while having the Horizon box due to issues with WiFi etc.

upc said that the horizon box has to be downstairs...no use for it there so i guess we will put it on hold until we get a HDTV downstairs. but how can i get a hd box if the hroizon must be downstairs and my tv is upstairs?

colm_mcm

I shouldn't have to be in any room in particular provided the cable connection in your room is good enough, there's no reason why you can't have it in your bedroom, have the wifi coming from there and have your phone downstairs.

You could also plug in your modem upstairs to check if its ok.

If you get 2 matching cordless handsets, you can have one charging base in your bedroom connected to the horizon box and another base downstairs.

I dunno about others but my wifi is better than it was on the 3925 modem

MarkY91

colm_mcm wrote: »

I shouldn't have to be in any room in particular provided the cable connection in your room is good enough, there's no reason why you can't have it in your bedroom, have the wifi coming from there and have your phone downstairs.

You could also plug in your modem upstairs to check if its ok.

If you get 2 matching cordless handsets, you can have one charging base in your bedroom connected to the horizon box and another base downstairs.

I dunno about others but my wifi is better than it was on the 3925 modem

doesnt the horizon box need to be plugged into the thingy behind my tv thats like a phone line? im sick of my 3925 and its a huge reason why iwana change. ill stick it out for now. thanks lads

colm_mcm

No, it uses a coaxial cable same as your modem or tv box so it just needs to be plugged into a regular upc socket. I put mine in the kitchen temporarily and it worked fine, if the signal in your bedroom is as strong as your sitting room there's no reason not to.

Now whether the cabling coming from your attic is up to spec is another matter, was it installed by UPC or a homemade bodge?

As I said, try your 3925 upstairs and see what the broadband is like compared to downstairs.

MarkY91

colm_mcm wrote: »

No, it uses a coaxial cable same as your modem or tv box so it just needs to be plugged into a regular upc socket. I put mine in the kitchen temporarily and it worked fine, if the signal in your bedroom is as strong as your sitting room there's no reason not to.

Now whether the cabling coming from your attic is up to spec is another matter, was it installed by UPC or a homemade bodge?

As I said, try your 3925 upstairs and see what the broadband is like compared to downstairs.

it was installed by upc. its just a cable running form the attic straight to the upc box. so no white box stuck to the wall like downstairs..so i could connect that modem to that wire upstairs?

colm_mcm

Yes.
but I think the socket itself has some sort of inbuilt current protection on it, maybe someone else will know more about this.

I'd imagine that if it was installed by themselves there shouldn't be an issue but don't take my word for it.

You could maybe ask UPC to install the box for you instead of you doing it yourself? That way there'd be no maybes.