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Originally Posted by JustAnotherN00b
Might be wasting my time but just to mention splitting your cable modem's coax feed is against terms of service and technically vandalism - ntl always try and give seperate feeds for broadband and TV for a pretty good reaon, interference, and that coax and the modem that connect to it belong to ntl.
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Unless you have an STB which does the TV & BB in one
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Originally Posted by JustAnotherNoob
I would politely ask that you and any other people who consider doing this don't - if your cable feed is sub-optimal you will lose cable modem service, and if plugging the split coax into equipment which isn't up to spec, such as a TV card, you may be introducing interference onto the cable plant which will in large enough quantities harm your service and those of others. The cable and TV feeds can have seperate frequency filters to reduce this ingress interference. This is what happens when DIY work goes wrong: http://www.cableforum.co.uk/board/sh...ad.php?t=11786 |
Drifting slightly
When ntl install they simply drilled a hole through the outside wall of my house and I had a nice cable draped around the edge of my skirting. Subsequently, and this is now years ago (in fact in the Cable & Wireless days) I rewired my house. In the process I tidied up the ntl cable by rerouting it under the floorboards and into a wall channel, removing the fitted connector and then making a new connection to a satellite type wall socket. Was this "against the T&Cs". And more the the point if it was, was I expected to get an engineer out to reroute the cable, when I was perfectly capable of doing so myself, and indeed did because it's worked fine for years?