Virgin media phone socket same as bt. They don't use the same cable to your house etc. You might need an adapter from Virgin Media to plug it into the Virgin Media hub. A microfilter is a device that allows broadband to work at the same time as your phone service. The only phone connection point will be the TEL1 socket on the back of your hub. It's now unused on my installation as the phone line is supplied via a dongle plugged into the back of the broadband router, port Tel1 IIRC. Nov 27, 2012 · Hi, I'm still busy comparing Virgin and BT packages for phone and broadband, and I suddenly wondered if my existing phone that I use with BT will work with the Virgin sockets. . This means that for our phone service to work, you need to have one of our phone sockets in your home. Dec 31, 2006 · No Virgin's network and backbone are completely separate to BT/Openreach. So the Virgin coax cable would be redundant once you switch to BT Where's your BT socket in the house, in relation to where you need it? You could run a longer phone cable from the BT socket, or have the router where the socket is and run an ethernet cable instead to Nov 7, 2023 · Assuming you've plugged the BT4500 into phone port on the Virgin Media hub and not the usual phone socket after moving to Virgin Media's digital voice service. Virgin Media uses a separate phone network to all other home phone providers. The "BT" style wall socket was for a telephone connection, yes. If your primary socket has one socket, like this: You must use a microfilter for every phone socket in your home with any phone or broadband equipment plugged in (including your Hub, phones, answer machines, digital TV boxes, and alarm systems). To connect to the VM hub, VM provides an adapter which takes a standard BT phone plug. jtlldcl wlmg pyf ywsn txnlbu artl pvdzf ikosyr xvjwg hcq