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• #2

  You should have read a few fora before embarking on your costly and illegal activity.
  The 'spare' box does not belong to you and you cannot use it legally without informing Virgin Media and paying the additional charge of £5 or £9.50 per month, dependent on whether your primary box is a V+ or ordinary box.
  Should you decide to legally use the second box, Virgin Media will come and install it for you, including any additional cabling and splitter and attenuators you may need.
• #3

  I do love it when people answer questions that were never asked..
  Yes, that splitter will do the job you want and it will pick up some channels for free. From the sockect that was working get a short cable that goes from the outlet that was working and connect it to that.
  The outlet on that does not work may be a FM out, so will not give any TV as you have already discovered.
• #4

  I do love it when people answer questions that were never asked..
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  I'm sorry but you are WRONG. He CANNOT use the 'spare' Virgin Media STB in ANY way. It is not his property to use.
• #5

  The OP asked if it was possible to use a splitter to connect the TV box and the modem to the same socket, that is possible.
  The OP did not ask for the rights and wrongs of it.
  Technically it is possible, when we had the V+ fitted the fitter man did exactly that.
  People are capable of making their own decisions without the need to having it thrown down their neck at every opportunity.
  My car can over 70MPH, its my decision if I decide to take it over that speed.
  I found a wallet on the floor while out last night, it was my decision to hand it to the bar manager or pocket the cash and dump it.
• #6

  I found a wallet on the floor while out last night, it was my decision to hand it to the bar manager or pocket the cash and dump it.

  
  I guess if you pocketed the cash you'd be making your own poverty history
• #7

  I guess if you pocketed the cash you'd be making your own poverty history

  
  I would be.. but then nobody said I took the wallet, in fact nobody said I even went out last night. :eek:
  I may have had a quiet night in watching Oceans 12 on DVD followed by Thank God Your Here on ITV and then Peal Harbour on BBC3 and in between that making sure all my work shirts were washed and drying ready to be ironed this evening while watching Ski Sunday.. :yawn:
  Just making the point we can all make our own decisions without the need of self appointed moral mentors. :rolleyes:
• #8

  Just making the point we can all make our own decisions without the need of self appointed moral mentors. :rolleyes:

  
  I ABSOLUTELY agree except that it is not a moral decision but a legal decision. The law is the law whether you agree with it or not.
• #9

  So what channels would he get= if he connected it? Would he get more then freeview? Would he get uk tvgold?
• #10

  Even if you were to hook a disconnected box up (which is illegal), you at most would get BBC 1 - Channel 4.
  Any more channels and it is a chipped box (which is illegal)
• #11

  I'm sorry but you are WRONG. He CANNOT use the 'spare' Virgin Media STB in ANY way. It is not his property to use.

  
  Yes he can. There is nothing illegal about plugging in an old box and watching non-sub channels. I had done it for years using the old analogue box that cabletel REFUSED to pick up.
  shilling.
• #12

  I'm sorry but you are WRONG. He CANNOT use the 'spare' Virgin Media STB in ANY way. It is not his property to use.

  
  calm down mate you sound like you going to have a heart attack
• #13

  Yes he can. There is nothing illegal about plugging in an old box and watching non-sub channels. I had done it for years using the old analogue box that cabletel REFUSED to pick up.
  shilling.

  
  Anyone connecting a box up that wasn't given to them by Virgin IS illegal
  Reconnected a box you have been given, but have then requested to be disconnected, is allowed. But unless you pay the extra rental. you will only get about 5 channels
• #14

  Back to the original question..
  If I'm reading it correctly, your issue is that a freeview box wont work with an analogue aerial. You need a small Digi aerial, like the ones they sell in curry for about £15 (last time I looked). Depending on where you live, you may get a far better picture than you would from an old Pace box anyway. Even better, you wont have to live in fear of VMs heavies kicking down your door one night and hauling you off to share a cell with a big bloke who calls you Nancy.
• #15

  Wouldnt you need a viewing card to make the old NTL box work ?
• #16

  He said its works when connected so it must have a card.
  Typical within minutes of not paying bill you get cut off but cancel your service and they don't bother to cancel the feed to your house so you can just buy one or hack your box.:D
• #17

  He said its works when connected so it must have a card.
  Typical within minutes of not paying bill you get cut off but cancel your service and they don't bother to cancel the feed to your house so you can just buy one or hack your box.:D

  
  The only reason they CAN stop the the service is because they have the smartcard and box on the account.
  Kinda like a tap. All the channels flow to everywhere but encrypted. It is the box that allows only the subscribed channels through

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Hats off to UK consumer rights watchdog Which? for flagging up a potential security risk for Virgin Media customers with older versions of the Super Hub routers.

To be clear, no ‘hack’ has taken place, so any publications writing it up as such either don’t understand or are being alarmist for easy clicks.

However, Which?’s research has shown that Virgin’s own-brand SuperHub 1 (pictured) 2 and 2ac routers, which come with eight-character long WiFi passwords by default can be easily compromised.

The method which Which? (?) used to break into the target device - a Super Hub 2 - sound very much like what’s called a brute force attack; this is where you get a program to throw a every possible sequence of letter and number combinations at a system until it comes up with the correct one.

Virgin Media databases haven’t been hacked - but change your password anyway

If anything, the test is a stark reminder to customers that when they get new hardware from their ISP - whether that’s Virgin Media or anyone - they should change the default passwords as soon as they’re able. You should also make them as long as possible.

As Which?’s own post says:

“In our hacking investigation, we targeted a real home that used the Virgin Media Super Hub 2 router for its cable broadband. Manual sommerkamp ft 767 dxl. The user had remained on the relatively weak default password – only eight characters long, using just lowercase letters from an A-Z alphabet, with two letters removed…

“The Super Hub 3.0 uses much stronger passwords than its predecessor. These are, by default, 12 characters long, with a mix of cases and numbers. This has significantly improved security, as confirmed by our own tests. While it took mere days for us to crack the Super Hub 2 password, using the same approach it would take 262 million years to breach the Hub 3.”

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If you’ve been on the Internet for more than ten picoseconds, there’s a good chance you’ll have read xkcd No. 936 - aka Correct Horse Battery Staple.

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Which? notes that Virgin’s Super Hub 3.0s ship with longer passwords, making them harder to guess by default.

Even if you’ve got a Super Hub 3.0, you should still change both the admin password (which gives you access to the router itself) and the SSID password (aka your WiFi password).

If you’re a Virgin Media customer and you’ve not done this, the admin password and SSID can be found printed on the back, side or base of the device itself, depending on which model Super Hub you have.

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If WiFi’s turned off or you can’t connect to the Internet, make sure your desktop or laptop’s plugged in to a spare Ethernet port on your router.

From here you’ll be able to change both the SSID/WiFi password and admin password.

How can I generate my own password?

If you want to create a super-secure password, you might want to rely on a password generator like this one for inspiration. Whatever you change everything to, make it easy to remember or if you can’t, write it down and keep it somewhere safe and out of view.

Also, don’t do what these twerps suggest. Sticking your SSID and password on a window? Yeah, good one.

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