Adding a splitter?
 

Hi,

Not sure how easy this is, perhaps someone with more knowledge than me can point me in the right direction.

Firstly I live in one of those council areas where the flat I live in doesnt have a rooftop aerial just a wire coming out of wall connected to ntl for tv viewing.

Anyway ive got the wire coming out of the wall, about halfway around the room an enginneer put in a white spillter box, one end is for TV the other end travels around to other side of room and ends in a single white box to which my cable modem is connected. Neither of these boxes are connected to the wall, their just sat on floor.

I recently got given a tv card for pc for free and in the ideal world i could split the cable again at the second white box and have one end for cable modem and ther other to plug into my tv card. Just to make myself clear i have no setup box the only service i subscribe to is ntls internet service.

How easy is this or would I need a ntl enginneer to sort it?

thx in advance if anyone replies.

Re: Adding a splitter?
 

Id say to make sure things work you would need an ntl engineer but I dunno if they would as its for a tv card so its kinda making them lose money.

Re: Adding a splitter?
 

Not only that you could introduce interference onto the network and even if it works for you could cause misery for your neighbors, and it CAN be traced. Also a splitter splits the signal (usually evenly) so can quite easily drop the signal to whatever you split it with down to unusuable levels.

Re: Adding a splitter?
 

Also why buy a pc card when there is sites on the net that are free and allow you to view tv channels?

Re: Adding a splitter?
 

ntl:telewest tv services can only be decoded by use of one the their supplied Set top boxes, with a current subscription. There are no legitimate TV cards that will do this in the UK. The STB does have an RF output, or you may be able to get a scart lead converter for the outputed decoded single channel signal that your TV card can then read.

Having said that, as others have said, splitting the cable, if done incorrectly (typical of the majority of DIY alterations) will risk degrading your own legitimate cable services, and also can degrade services of your neighbours. Simply put if you want these services, subscribe legitimately for them, and the additional cabling needed will be installed as part of that package.