Sorry for the delay replying horseman took me a while to digest your post.
Barring the semantics, and to clarify my feed is a single RG6 from the cab to my home up to the grey box which would normally split between the digibox and the SH2 but as I don't have the tv connected it goes straight to my SH.
Regarding the neighbours, my original feed was laid over 10 years ago when my then neighbour allowed VM to sink it in his garden, he has since died so my current neighbours who are due to move soon are not as keen and neither am I, so I've asked for it to be laid under my drive.
To repeat the original reason for my thread was to see if there was an acceptable amount of errors in a "normal" service.
Kc
Update:
VM have booked another re-pull of RG11 for the 13-09-13 so hopefully all will be sorted.
Thanks to all who've advised on this it is appreciated.
Kc