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SMHarman · 25-08-2004, 13:58

Maplins CT100 cable should do the trick. That said you can send digital cable signals down standard coax without difficulty, sounds like lazy engineers. The signal he should be concerned about is the one at the TV, not the one at the box outside the house. Perhaps there are some poor terminations on the internal cables but an engineer can move the cable to a stronger signal feed at the green box near the house and check all other terminations are good, you are in a flat, so the cable run from outside to the TV can't be that long.

When did this engineer turn up, Friday PM?

Some more useful engineers will give you a reel / the rest of a reel of cable for this purpose. If you see one in a van on the street, ask they may oblige, the furthest run on my house is completed with TV coax (not Sat) and I get a picture just fine, the signal loss was driven more by distance than the cable, however this cable runs along the side of teh building and into the roof space of the extension. The engineer pointed out that this cable will break down over time as it is of a lesser quality and left me a cable drum to replace the cable through the ceiling etc as and when I feel like it. In the mean time this STB gets a perfect DTV signal and full interactive (well full NTL interactive).

25-08-2004, 13:58	#18
SMHarman Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Services: Cablevision Posts: 8,305	Re: Is it possible to order NTL cable? Maplins CT100 cable should do the trick. That said you can send digital cable signals down standard coax without difficulty, sounds like lazy engineers. The signal he should be concerned about is the one at the TV, not the one at the box outside the house. Perhaps there are some poor terminations on the internal cables but an engineer can move the cable to a stronger signal feed at the green box near the house and check all other terminations are good, you are in a flat, so the cable run from outside to the TV can't be that long. When did this engineer turn up, Friday PM? Some more useful engineers will give you a reel / the rest of a reel of cable for this purpose. If you see one in a van on the street, ask they may oblige, the furthest run on my house is completed with TV coax (not Sat) and I get a picture just fine, the signal loss was driven more by distance than the cable, however this cable runs along the side of teh building and into the roof space of the extension. The engineer pointed out that this cable will break down over time as it is of a lesser quality and left me a cable drum to replace the cable through the ceiling etc as and when I feel like it. In the mean time this STB gets a perfect DTV signal and full interactive (well full NTL interactive).