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Originally Posted by s999
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Putting my ntl hat on we'd rather you didn't play games with the cable feed into your house. Until it leaves the set top box / cable modem it does actually belong to us, and you've agreed in your contract not to mess with it. Reason for this being that doing that wrong will both break your own services and those of people in your immediate area.
Key phrases as far as this goes: unterminated/poorly isolated points = RF ingress onto
our network, impedance mismatch = microreflections onto
our network. Neither is good, and doing what you've suggested has seriously munted entire towns services in the past once a few people have gotten onto doing it.
Doing this you may find that your broadband suddenly stops working. Why? Because your home has been found to be a source of interference and has been isolated to prevent the interference getting onto the rest of the network.
You may also find that if you're in a digital only area (they are out there) doing this won't get you anything anyway.