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All you need now is a combiner such as one of these. If you ring up NTL customer services they should be able to supply you with one - although the may insist that an engineer fits it. It allows you to combine together the RF output of your STB and the 'spare' leg of the splitter so you have a single feed to your booster.
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Thanks, altis. I'm not really confident about being able to explain to customer services exactly what i need. In any case, I don't actually have a 'spare' leg of the splitter (It's ok, I'm not surprised you've forgotten what my configuration looks like, it's so long since I posted the drawing and so many possible variations have been discussed/tried, lol)
The incoming cable splits, with one leg going into the stb, and the other into the vcr (which it needs to do to allow me to be able to video one of the terrestrial channels while watching cable, or vice versa).
I think I will stick to my plan - the latest one; about 'plan z' i think. I've looked at the maplin site again and they do a nifty little gadget for plugging 2 signal sources into one aerial socket - intended for people with a playstation or such like - which has a switch on it for switching between sources. It looks like this:
and it's only £3.99.
That, together with a set-top indoor aerial should be all i need for upstairs - i can just plug in the set-top aerial and the cable signal from downstairs and be able to easily switch between them.