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MovedGoalPosts · 17-10-2007, 21:56

Simple answer, no you will not be able to use the ntl co-axial cable for your Sky broadband. Sky broadband is ADSL and will be supplied into the house via a standard BT type phone line.

You can wire extensions from the master phone socket, using more standard phone line. At any location where you connect a telephone or your ADSL (not cable) modem, you must use an ADSL filter - a little device that separates the phone and broadband signals. Your ADSL modem connects to the splitter using the supplied lead. Once the signal has passed through the modem it can only be transferred by ethernet, wireless, or possibly "Homeplug" (a system that uses your electrical ring main circuits). Coaxial being only 2 core will not support the signal.

You might be able to adapt the phone wire that was the ntl as an extension, but that's about it.

17-10-2007, 21:56	#4
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: Whats the NTL box? Simple answer, no you will not be able to use the ntl co-axial cable for your Sky broadband. Sky broadband is ADSL and will be supplied into the house via a standard BT type phone line. You can wire extensions from the master phone socket, using more standard phone line. At any location where you connect a telephone or your ADSL (not cable) modem, you must use an ADSL filter - a little device that separates the phone and broadband signals. Your ADSL modem connects to the splitter using the supplied lead. Once the signal has passed through the modem it can only be transferred by ethernet, wireless, or possibly "Homeplug" (a system that uses your electrical ring main circuits). Coaxial being only 2 core will not support the signal. You might be able to adapt the phone wire that was the ntl as an extension, but that's about it.