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Also when has VM ever used white wire from the outside box?? Only ever seen Black myself... (I might be wrong though but I'm sure someone will confirm or not)

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Well you'd hope so wouldn't you, besides he has already said he heard them bragging about it

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No they wouldnt...techs will sometimes use the connection from the neighbours without telling them...

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Well best thing to do is ring VM up and they can confirm.

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They wouldnt be able to confirm, a tech isnt going to admit to messing up...

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He doesn't have to, they can check their records on who done the job (if there ever was a job, and it's not the neighbours who have done it themselves)

Back to the main point, just ring VM up and tell them your situation.

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I believe the white stuff is meant for indoor use only as it isn't "weather proof" it is probably just a cheaper grade of cable.

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Well I thought I better let you guys know what happened I got in contact with a friend of my uncles who used to work for Telewest and he disconnected the wire from the brown box and checked my connection before cutting the wire in three separate places before posting them through my neighbours letterbox :)

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I was asked do I want black or white. Walls were white so went with that ( mind you it was in the days of cable tel)

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disconnect it from your box, then give the cable a good pull and keep pulling it! with luck you may just manage to damage his box that will teach him to steal your stuff

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iv had white at one house that iv lived in.

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not at all its the same grade infact its the same cable just white instead of black, 2bh it makes no difference. in the house where we had white cable the houses on the street are a white/cream colour, so VM just used white so that the wiring would blend in with the outside of the house & Sky have done the same with most installations in the street also ;)

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Ok... so let me get this straight.. your neigbour has wired a digibox.. by using the connection that is technically there for "you're" own home?
in other words hes put a splitter on... put ur tv back on or net back on and got himself a free virgin input coming into the house?

Im affraid id be knocking his window with the bolt cutters and telling him exactly what im going to cut with them

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The splitter is already there inside most outside boxes...

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i just had a single splitter.. i jst went to maplin and bought a double so i could have the BBI upstairs and the TV downstairs.. iv got about 80FT of cabling up my house and in my loft lol
im a bit worried as to how deep Telewest put it when it was first fitted ... it runs thru my mums garden and it worries me cause she works in it constantly and u can see it through the soil at certain parts.. and she rakes and digs and things like that.. lol

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Officially Laine the cable should have been installed at a depth of at least six inches. A few years back when I had my driveway block paved, the builders took up the tarmac to find in places it was barly an inch down and on average no more than three.
After getting in touch with VM I was told that if the builders cut through the cable and it was less than the required six inches in depth, VM were liable to fix it free of charge.