Which cable to hard wire bt vision box

Having spent a full day putting in a 30m extension Ethernet cable which I was advised I required, when I ordered my new box to-day I was told it must be an ADSL cable after telling me 1st it was an hdmi I said there isn't an hdmi outlet on the modum , i have infinity & want new bt sport ????????????????????????????????? Thanks Alex

alex12cessnock wrote:
I had to run 30m extension down to where the bt box will be from the hub, will this interfere with speed, Thanks Alex
If you are talking about an BT Infinity connection, then a 30m cable from the LAN1 port of the modem, to the WAN port of the hub, should not affect speed.
I assume that is what you mean?
There are some useful help pages here, for BT Broadband customers only, on my personal website.
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Hi, just ordered bt vision and wondered if anyone could tell me if it is ok to connect the hub to the vision box with a long Ethernet cable, 20m long. From the video clips on setting the system up they say if over 2 meters you must use power adaptors which uses your houses electrical ring main to send the signals. Do you lose picture signal or does it slow down connection to bt. Or do they give the power adaptors to make it easier for people so they don't have to run long Ethernet cables.
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Hi and welcome to the forum.
I also have an ethernet cable around 20m long and works ok, I think BT say the 2m rule so customers do not have long lengths of cable around their house, good old elf'nsafety.
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rewsan wrote:
As I don't want anything new to be recorded on the old box can I set up my new black box and still watch the recordings on the old box?
Yes you can, but what you would need to do is -
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This is nearly always HDMI interference. I get this on 666MHz which for me is Pick TV and a few others.
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Help please with which cable I need

Hello,
Please could someone help me decide which cable I need to buy to connect my bt hub to the bt set top. Eg I know I need an RJ11 cable for the bt hub to the phone socket but which cable for hub to set? I have an older hub, about a few years old, ithat a makes a difference to the type of cable.
Many thanks.

eawilson wrote:
Thanks for your help. Sorry for not explaining properly but the cable kit original kit is damaged as it was chewed by my rabbit and it'sthecable from the hub to the bt vision box I'm looking for. I don't want to go into a shop and get ripped off with an expensive cable so just looking for a cable I can from online (but need to know what I'm looking for, which I don't! I am so clueless!).
Thanks again. Hope you know what I mean now.
Ah, my bad. I took it you were either coming back to BT or was explaining to us that you were already a BT customer and was thinking of taking out BTVision and was wondering what cables were needed. The reason I mentioned scart and hdmi was purely to let you know that the only additional cost would of been an HDMI cable.
You have the answer from PP and the others
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